Cat Rambo

Location: United States | WA | Redmond
Speaking Topics: blogging | fantasy and science fiction | game development | gender identity | online communities | online magazines | podcasting | speculative fiction | technical writing | virtual team building
Spoken Languages: English

Web links / Blogs: 
The World Remains Mysterious
Fantasy Magazine
Son of Bride of Godzilla Meets Armageddon

Cat Rambo is a technogeek whose experience includes co-editing Fantasy Magazine, working with the online game Armageddon MUD, freelance technology writing, teaching writing for ranges 5th grade through post-grad, and writing f&sf. She is a dynamic, quick-spirited speaker and educator with charisma, empathy and a keen sense of humor.

Previous Presentations: 
Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Just Getting Started, Norwescon, Seattle WA, March 20, 2008
Instructor for Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction, Bellevue Community College, since 2007
Reading from "The Moon's Accomplice" (fiction), Norwescon, Seattle WA, March 21, 2008

Jacinta Richardson

Location: Australia | Melbourne | Victoria
Speaking Topics: community | Community Building | Conference organisation | online marketing | perl | Small Businesses | social networking | software engineering | technical writing | Training | Working From Home
Spoken Languages: English

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Web links / Blogs: 
Use Perl blog
Perl Training Australia

Jacinta Richardson has a Bachelor of Engineering (Software) (hons) and Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne. Jacinta is both the managing director and training coordinator of Perl Training Australia. In addition to the management parts of this job, Jacinta does technical writing. bespoke development and participates in the training courses. Having been involved in the business from the start, Jacinta has a lot to say about starting and running your own small IT business.

Previous Presentations: 
Not common enough code optimisations, linux.conf.au linuxchix miniconf 2008, OSDC 2007
Compulsive networking, linux.conf.au linuxchix miniconf 2007, OSDC 2006
Conferences for beginners, Open Source Developers' Conference, 2006
Understanding greediness (a guide to regular expressions), OSDC 2006
Presentation Web Links: 
Not common enough code optimisations

Sacha Chua

Location: Canada | Toronto
Speaking Topics: blogging | technology evangelism | Web 2.0 | enterprise 2.0 | social computing | social networking | technical writing | public speaking | Emacs | open source

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Web links / Blogs: 
Personal blog
Bookmarks
LinkedIn

Enterprise 2.0 evangelist, storyteller, author, geek

Testimonials:

“The first time I met Sacha she was addressing a huge audience and she captured everyone's attention with her enthusiasm and knowledge. Sacha truly is a technology evangelist and I am happy to know her. I expect to see many more great things from Sacha in the future!” May 4, 2007

Mira Jelic, Owner, Cognisi
worked directly with Sacha at IBM

Previous Presentations: 
I.B.Millennials: The Net Generation and Those Who Recruit, Hire, Work With, Manage, and Sell to Us, IBM Technical Leadership Exchange
Blog Your Way Out of a Job... and Into a Career - IBM Best Practices Conference (Best Paper)

Theresa Putkey

Location: Canada | Vancouver | BC
Speaking Topics: technical writing | information architecture | usability

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Web links / Blogs: 
Key Pointe Usability Consulting, Inc.

Theresa Putkey is a consultant for organizing content in website design and software design. She has a background in technical writing, requirements analysis, information architecture and information design. She has worked in the high-tech industry in Vancouver, BC for eight years and enjoys networking, hearing about new opportunities, answering questions, doing presentations, and traveling.

Jes Hall

Location: New Zealand | Wellington
Speaking Topics: kde | open source | systems administration | technical writing

Web links / Blogs: 
Canllaith.org

I am a Linux Technical specialist at IBM New Zealand and a long-term contributer to the open source project KDE. I also have been writing for Linux Journal for a couple years now and just all-round dig Linux, opensource, and supporting women in science and technology.