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Location: Boulder | CO USA
Speaking Topics: Gender equity in tech | women & innovation | women in open source | girls in technology | K-12 tech/engineering education

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Ruthe Farmer
Director of Strategic Initiatives
The National Center for Women & IT (NCWIT)

Since 2001, Ruthe Farmer has focused her efforts on increasing girls’ participation in STEM disciplines. She recently completed an MBA in Social Entrepreneurship & Marketing at the University of Oxford and is working on program initiatives, strategic planning and fund development at NCWIT.

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Location: Zurich | Switzerland
Speaking Topics: open source | documentation | non-code contributions | blogging | women in technology | women in open source | floss | organizing events
Spoken Languages: English

Noirin Shirley is a jack of all trades, and a master of several. A technical writer by day, Noirin started working on documentation for the Apache httpd project while at university, and finding she still had time on her hands, trained as an ambulance attendant with the St John Ambulance Brigade. She helps organise the Apache Software Foundation's bi-annual conference, ApacheCon, and is actively involved in Open Source efforts around the world! She is a founder member of Digital Rights Ireland, and a Director of her local branch of the System Administrators' Guild.

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Location: California | San Francisco | USA
Speaking Topics: Creative Commons | geek culture | open data | open source | perl | web2.0 | wikis | women in open source | women in technology | craft | freebase | geek feminism
Spoken Languages: English

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Kirrily Robert has been involved in open source software since 1993, as a Linux user, Perl developer, and community leader and advocate. She is best known for her work in the Perl community, where she has been a CPAN contributor, author, speaker, and trainer.

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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.

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Location: Colorado | USA
Speaking Topics: online communities | open source | open source business | open source policies | women in open source
Spoken Languages: Spanish | English

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I currently work as the executive director of the GNOME Foundation. I also am an advisor for HFOSS, OpenSource World, IntraHealth Open and OpenLogic, as well as founder and president of Kids on Computers, a nonprofit organization setting up computer labs in developing countries.

I do a lot of public speaking. For more information about the topics I speak on, see my speaking resume.

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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.

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Location: INDIA
Speaking Topics: Artificial-Intelligence | drupal | Expert systems | MySQL | php | RDF | semantic web | Virtual-Reality | women in open source | Cloud Computing
Spoken Languages: English