Jemimah Ruhala

Location: Florida | USA
Speaking Topics: Puppeee Linux | Puppy Linux
Spoken Languages: English

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Jemimah is the developer of the Puppeee Linux distribution, a flavor of Puppy Linux designed for netbooks. Puppeee sports a lightweight netbook kernel, custom network manager, custom power management, and a lot of other stuff she's personally scripted, compiled, created, or patched.

Jemimah is an active participant and developer in the Puppy Linux community as well. Puppy is a very small, very unique, user friendly, Linux distribution designed to run on old and underpowered hardware.

Jemimah would enjoy opportunities to talk about Puppeee or Puppy.

Máirín Duffy

Location: Boston | Massachusetts | USA
Speaking Topics: fedora | designing for an operating system | FLOSS software UI design and user experience | FLOSS creative tools (Inkscape | gimp | etc.) | teaching kids FLOSS | design/UX for developers | FLOSS-friendly licenses for creative works | how do I do X the free & open source way?
Spoken Languages: English

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Previous Presentations: 
LibrePlanet - Cambridge, MA March 2010
FUDcon (Fedora Users and Developers Conference) - Toronto, Canada December 2009
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Center for Open Source - Troy, NY February 2010

Alolita Sharma

Location: San Francisco | USA
Speaking Topics: Collaboration technologies in Open Source | Building a business with Open Source | Open Source Community | Open source in education | Open Source in Developing Countries
Spoken Languages: Hindi | English

Alolita Sharma has been involved with open source since the early days of Linux. She has actively promoted open source software adoption in industry, government and developing economies for the past 12 years, working with leaders in US and India's IT industry, government and education to enable change and transparency. She believes that the ideas of open source can generate unbounded opportunity for the development of technology and economic prosperity in developing nations.

Previous Presentations: 
Open Source, Open World at OSSPAC 2009, Singapore
Building successful open source communities at OSSPAC 2009, Singapore
Users as Contributors at GNUnify 2009, Pune, India

Esther Schindler

Location: Scottsdale | Arizona | USA
Speaking Topics: online community | open source | software development trends | developer careers
Spoken Languages: English

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A long-time technology evangelist and community instigator, Esther Schindler has been in the computer press since 1992. Her primary journalistic focus for the last decade has been software development and open source, and she’s contributed as writer or editor to ITExpertVoice.com, Software Test & Performance, InformIT.com, DevSource.com, and dozens of other publications. She’s written market research analyst reports since 2002; she wrote four books (including one that actually paid out its advance) and had her hand in writing or editing another eight.

Previous Presentations: 
Niche Media Digital Conference, September 2009. Presentation about building online communities for niche magazines and publications
O’Reilly’s Open Source Conference, July 2009. Led panel about “What open source projects need to know about dealing with the press.”
TopCoder International Contest, panel moderator, 2008.

Leslie Poston

Location: New Hampshire | USA
Speaking Topics: social media | Film | music | Art | Wine | Food | Off-Bear Businesses | Gender Issues | Psychology/Sociology of SocMed | Future Thinking | strategy | Development | Writing | more
Spoken Languages: English

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About Leslie Poston

Providing Social Media, New Media and Digital Strategies and Business Development for Film, Music, Wine, Food, Corporations, Individuals.

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Previous Presentations: 
Upcoming: MIDEM January 2010 (Cannes, France)

Linda Halligan

Location: seattle | WA | USA
Speaking Topics: Long Term Techincal Planning | Redundancy
Spoken Languages: English

Kate-Madonna Hindes

Location: MN | USA
Speaking Topics: social media | Passion | Finding Happiness Before Finding A Career | Cervical Cancer Prevention and Survivor
Spoken Languages: English

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Kate-Madonna Hindes is a nationally recognized and sought after public speaker and writer on Social Media and a state-wide facilitator for DEED Minnesota.
Her recent credits include speaking at Minnesota‟s WorkForce Centers and at Social Media Breakfast, along with the 2009 National Cancer Conference in Chicago.
She is the Midwest NCCC chapter leader and speaker who promotes hope and education to those diagnosed or who have survived Cervical Cancer.

Previous Presentations: 
Social Media Breakfast, MN: Finding Passion and Happiness Before Finding A Job
2009-2010 DEED Workshop Facilitator: Social Media, Technology for the Job Search
2009 NCCC Cervical Cancer Survivor Stories

Katy Dickinson

Location: San Francisco Bay Area | USA
Speaking Topics: Mentoring | Technical Mentoring | Value of Awards | women in technology | Software Life Cycle | Process Architecture | corporate blogging | caboose restoration
Spoken Languages: English

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Katy Dickinson creates then communicates measurably effective long-lasting corporate infrastructure and processes. Her specialty is acting as an effective change agent who resolves persistent and complex organizational problems.

Katy is the Director of Business Process Architecture: CTO & Sun Labs organizations. Katy has worked for Sun since 1984 in Engineering, Marketing, Quality, Operations, Legal, Standards, Strategy, and Sun Labs. She has worked as a Six Sigma Master Black Belt for the CTO and Sun Labs since 2002.

Previous Presentations: 
Presenter at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
1992 Able Toastmaster (ATM, certified public speaker), 1991 Toastmasters District 4 Area C-6 Area Governor, 1995 Toastmasters Area Speaking Contest Winner
1992-2004 she was a lecturer and reviewer for the University of California at Berkeley's Engineering-110 ("Venture Design: The Start-up Company") class

Marilyn Schneider Hollinger

Location: San Francisco Bay Area | USA
Speaking Topics: User Experience Design | Managing Software Projects | Heuristic Evaluation | Web Design | Userfriendly System Administration | user experience in combination with agile development | system management | Content Management Systems | IT R&D projects | requirements gathering
Spoken Languages: English

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Lisa Crispin

Location: Colorado | USA
Speaking Topics: Agile Testing | transitioning to agile development | test automation
Spoken Languages: English

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Lisa Crispin is an agile testing coach and practitioner. She is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009). She specializes in showing testers and agile teams how testers can add value and how to guide development with business-facing tests. Her mission is to bring agile joy to the software testing world and testing joy to the agile development world.

Previous Presentations: 
2-day Agile Testing workshop plus track session at SQE Agile Development Practices
Tutorial and Keynote at Agile Testing Days Berlin
Tutorial at SQE StarWest