Angela Beesley

Location: Australia | Sydney
Speaking Topics: Collaboration | communities | online communities | social media | Web 2.0 | wiki | wikimedia | wikipedia | wikis
Spoken Languages: English

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       You can contact me by email at angela at wikia dot com

Angela Beesley has been involved with wikis for more than five years. With Jimmy Wales, she founded Wikia.com, a community-focused wiki company which is supporting the development of wikis on more than 6000 topics and in 70 different languages.

Angela chairs the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization which manages Wikipedia.

       Previous presentations

Alison Wheeler

Location: London | Europe | London UK | Glasgow
Speaking Topics: developing user-led content | localisation and global marketing | managing user-generated content | online identity | open content | open source | social networking | Web 2.0 | wikimedia | wikipedia | wikis
Spoken Languages: English | some French | some German

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By training Alison has been in the computer field since 1976, including major FTSE250 and Fortune 500 multi-national companies up to Head of Department and IT Director levels as well as self-employment and a board member (CTO) of start-up companies.

Previous Presentations: 
The Dana Centre, London, June 2007
AOP Online Publishing Annual Conference, October 2007
British Library, November 2007
London Wiki Wednesday, December 2007
London Business School, March 2008
BarCampLondon4, May 2008
also closed presentations to organisations, eg. The Guardian, December 2006
(et al)

Brianna Laugher

Location: Melbourne Australia
Speaking Topics: free content | free culture | wikimedia | wikipedia | wikis
Spoken Languages: English

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Previous Presentations: 
'Special:Contributions/newbies', Wikimania 2007
Wikimedia Commons tutorial, Wikimania 2007
LinuxChix miniconf, linux.conf.au 2008
Lightning talk, linux.conf.au 2008
(Planned) Building an Australasian Commons, 2008
(Planned) Wikimania 2008
(Planned) Australian Computers in Education Conference 2008