Mackenzie Morgan

Location: DC | USA | Washington
Speaking Topics: free software contribution | GNU/Linux | history of computing | linux | open source | security | ubuntu | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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Mackenzie is working on her undergraduate degree in Computer Science with a focus on Computer Security and Information Assurance. She spends her downtime trying to make Ubuntu a better distribution. A history lover, she can expound upon the effects of the Norman Conquest or the lives of the women who pioneered the computing field. She is committed to getting others involved in contributing to Free & Open Source Software and will gladly show interested parties the ropes.

Previous Presentations: 
"Don't Get Cracked on Hostile WiFi" at Ohio Linux Fest 2008 & DCLUG Sept 2009
Girls in Technology "Sharing Our Success: Geek is Chic" panelist (2009)
"Sysadmins' Rosetta Stone" (Red Hat & Debian differences) at Ohio Linux Fest 2009
Girls in Technology "Sharing Our Success: Your Passion, You Choose" panelist (2010)
"Is LinuxSecure?" at Southeast LinuxFest 2010

Miia Ranta

Location: Finland | Tampere
Speaking Topics: communities | ubuntu | Web 2.0 | wikipedia | Women in IT | Working From Home
Spoken Languages: English | Finnish

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Previous Presentations: 
Vastedes ry. Tiedon ja elämän omistaminen -keskustelusarja - Ai voiko siitä saada palkkaakin: Vapaat ohjelmat ja tietotekniikan tulevaisuus

Daniele

Location: Japan
Speaking Topics: Delphi Method | Digital Divide in Latin America | drupal | mediawiki | Open Source Geospatial Trends | pay per click advertising | search engine marketing | Technology foresight & assessment | ubuntu | Collaboration | user generated content
Spoken Languages: English | Portuguese

Kadambari Devarajan

Location: INDIA | Chennai
Speaking Topics: java | ubuntu | blogging | Web 2.0 | FOSS | GNU/Linux | content management | Collaboration | wikis | LAMP | Social Media/Networking | Women in FOSS/IT/Science/Technology | Theory of Computation | Computational Complexity | Game Theory | NLP | AI | Robotics | Writing
Spoken Languages: English | Hindi | Tamil

Previous Presentations: 
WiCamp '08 Chennai, GPLv3 '06@IIM Bangalore, WikiCamp '07@Chennai, Podworks.in '07 @ Tidel Park Chennai
National Entrepreneurship Network India, local Linux User Group talks, Literary & Debating Society talks

Melissa Draper

Location: Australia | NSW | Sydney
Speaking Topics: Community Management | IRC Channel Management | Newbies | New Users | ubuntu | women in open source
Spoken Languages: English

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Melissa Draper is a web developer by trade, who invests most of her free time into Open Source advocacy. She has written articles for Linux.com, assists with events at the local LUG and serves on the Linux Australia Council as an ordinary member, but her primary focus area has been the Ubuntu community.

Previous Presentations: 
Canberra Linux Users Group - From Equality to Diversity: The Road Less Taken
Open Source Developers Conference - From Equality to Diversity: The Road Less Taken
Sydney Linux Users Group - From Equality to Diversity: The Road Less Taken

Emma Jane Hogbin

Location: Canada | ON Canada | Ontario | Toronto
Speaking Topics: community engagement | conference organization | documentation | drupal | floss | linux | moodle | MySQL | openoffice.org | open source | speaker training | ubuntu | Women in IT

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International speaker on the topics of (FOSS) documentation and DocBook, gender and IT and engaging ones physical community through the use of technology. Special interest in rural use of technology. Experience organizing community-focused technology conferences using local food and with energy offset credits. Several years as a community college instructor of PHP, MySQL, XHTML, ColdFusion, Dreamweaver (although she is a rabid Vim user) and standards-based Web development.

Previous Presentations: 
LugRadioLive and OSCON where she delivered her (now very famous) women in FOSS talk entitled, "Form an orderly queue, ladies."
NotACon speaking on: "HICK Tech: the rural and modern technology conference"
DrupalCampToronto (Porting * to Drupal) and DrupalCon in Szeged (Open for (small) Business)
CONTACT 2007 - Theatre conference, using the Web to promote your business
Libre Software Meeting (Bordeaux 2004) - documentation, TLDP
BGLUG, KWLUG, GTALUG, TLUG, Toronto PerlMongers - Presentation Bootcamp

Vidya Ayer

Location: INDIA
Speaking Topics: Blogging | | Bootstrapping | Collaboration | Financial Management | GNU/Linux | Marketing | project management | ubuntu | Women and Libre software | Women and startups
Spoken Languages: Hindi | German | English | Tamil | Marathi

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Vid Ayer has boot-strapped an entreprenuer firm earlier and is currently undergoing the process for the second. She is also involved with the local entreprenuer communities like Kickstart.in and OCC (open coffee club), which is planning to have a women entreprenuer's cell soon.