Nicole Dyess

Location: Minot | ND USA
Speaking Topics: Community Building | IT Outsourcing | Parenting with Technology | Portal development | SharePoint | system administration | Women in IT | Women Working from Home
Spoken Languages: English

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Geeky Moms CEO, Nicole Dyess, writes with one goal in mind - to teach women to use technology to their advantage. She has worked in the IT field for 12 years specializing in a multitude of applications and systems. She runs several online businesses but spends most of her time brainstorming new ideas, creating music and playing with her kids.

http://geekymoms.com

Previous Presentations: 
Developing a Portal using SharePoint
Implementing your Web Community
Geeky Moms: The New Virtual Workforce

Pamela L. Howell

Location: Central NJ | NYC and Philadelphia - USA
Speaking Topics: system administration | open source | Freedom of Information | Privacy | hacking | Time Management | project management | Being a Woman Geek | UberGeek-ness
Spoken Languages: English | Geek | French (light)

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Pamela L. Howell is a senior-level IT consultant in the system administration, security, and programming fields from Central NJ. She's also been a UNIX geek since she went in to her dad's office at Bell Labs and printed Snoopy calendars on his Multics box in the early 70s, but more officially since she learned SVR4 Rel3 at the labs herself 1988-90. She tends to specialize in communicating intensely technical information as clearly as possible.

Previous Presentations: 
LOPSA-NJ, Oct. 01, 2009 - Talk entitled, "Almost 30 Points of Failure...or...how I spent 3 days deinstalling Vista and Vmware and trying to get a stable Ubuntu 9.04 enviornment."
Beyond HOPE Conference 1997, Organizer (http://beyond.hope.net)
HOPE Conference, Registration, Documentation, Ops/Support and flophouse (http://hope94.hope.net/)

Margarita Manterola

Location: Buenos Aires | Argentina
Speaking Topics: Debian | GNU/Linux | Python | GTK | women in technology | programming | Thin Clients | system administration
Spoken Languages: Spanish | English | Portuguese

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I'm a Debian Developer living in Argentina. I work mainly as a Python Programmer and teach programming at the Engineering Faculty in the Universidad de Buenos Aires.

I'm a Free Software enthusiast, I've been teaching about Free Software since 2002. Giving introductory courses to GNU/Linux, and advanced courses in system and networks administration.

Previous Presentations: 
DebConf5, DebConf6, DebConf7, DebConf8
CafeConf 2005 / 2006, JRSL5 /JRSL6, Encuentro Linux 2007 - Arica
Jornadas LUGFI 2004 / 2005 / 2007, Jornadas del Sur 2009

Ana Beatriz Guerrero López

Location: France | Lyon | Sevilla | Spain
Speaking Topics: Debian | GNU/Linux | kde | linux | open source | Python | system administration | Women in IT
Spoken Languages: Spanish | English

Selena Deckelmann

Location: Portland
Speaking Topics: automation | Databases | drupal | monitoring | Open Source Community | postgresql | sysadmin | system administration

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Selena Deckelmann is a software engineer at End Point Corporation. She currently leads PDXPUG, a PostgreSQL Users Group, and helps organize Code n Splode, a programming group whose goal is to get more women involved in open source. She is on the board of Legion of Tech. In her spare time, she collects eggs from her chickens, gardens and occasionally mixes drinks for Portland Perl Mongers.

Previous Presentations: 
ptop - PostgreSQL performance monitoring, PostgreSQL Conference East 2008
Wordpress vs Drupal, LUG Radio Live 2008
IM IN UR DATABASE, PerlMongers 2008
Leading Without Being In Charge, OSCON 2008
Running Successful User Groups, OSCON 2008
Tools for Local Communities, OSCON 2008

Magni Onsoien

Location: Norway | Trondheim
Speaking Topics: DNS | domain | domain policy | linux | linuxchix | system administration | Unix | women in open source | Women in IT

I work as a system administrator for Norid, the .no domain registry. I have previously worked as a system administrator for a university and a consulting company for 8 year, before that I worked part-time while studying.
I have a MS degree in Informatics, my thesis was about Women in Open Source.

My professional interests include DNS and name server infrastructure, Linux, Unix and system administration. I also have an interest in women in open source and in IT in general, and has worked to increase the number for female applicants and students while I was at university.

Previous Presentations: 
I have spoken at FOSDEM, Debconf and several local events both at work and at university.