Laura Scott
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Laura Scott is President of pingVision, LLC, an interactive design and development company located in Boulder, Colorado, specializing in Drupal design, development and deployment.
Previous Presentations:
BlogHer 2006: Deeply Geeky panelist
OSCMS 2007: Theming for Drupal
OSCMS 2007: Building Online Community
Katherine Bailey
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Previous Presentations:
jQuery for Module Developers, Drupal Camp Vancouver 2008
Introduction to jQuery, Vancouver League of Drupallers meet-up February 2008
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Laura Scroggins
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Laura Scroggins is a senior business executive with extensive marketing, strategy, and operational experience in technology and training.
An excellent leader with a record of contribution to improving financial performance, increased productivity and enhanced internal controls. As a co-founder of Tea Leaf Media Ms. Scroggins provides both vision and hands-on leadership including building the Tea Leaf Media professional services organization from the ground up.
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Former University Faculty - Cal State Univ System
DrupalCamp Los Angeles 2007: Project Management
BadCamp 2007: Project Management
Meredith Farkas
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I am currently the Head of Instructional Initiatives at Norwich University in Vermont and an adjunct faculty member at San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science. I'm the author of the book Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication and Community Online (Information Today, 2007) and write the monthly column "Technology in Practice" for American Libraries. I'm probably best known for my blog Information Wants to Be Free and the many wikis I've created to collect professional knowledge.
Previous Presentations:
National: Wikimania 2006, American Library Association 2007, Internet Librarian 2006-2007, Computers in Libraries 2006-2008, Alliance for Information Science and Technology Innovation 2007, Readex Digital Institute 2007
International: Royal School of Library and Information Science in Denmark 2007, Quebec Library Association Conference 2007, Ontario Library Assoc. Super Conference 2008
Keynotes: UC Berkeley 2007, Assoc. of College and Research Libraries Eastern NY 2007, Borough of Manhattan Community College 2007
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Helen Baxter
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**********Not available until 2009. Due to production of the weekly g33k show, I am not available to speak until next year. ***********
I have been speaking about technology & the internet for over 10 years, in the UK and New Zealand. I'm Managing Directrix of Mohawk Media, Geek Girl for Radio NZ, I write the MsBehaviour Files for The Big Idea, with a slot on Radio Wammo for Kiwi FM. I'm also Web Mistress for Alt TV, and producer/host of the weekly g33k show online and SKY 65 in New Zealand.
Previous Presentations:
Living in the Future. Wellington LOOP Launch (2007)
Renaissance 2.0 - Educating the New Leonardos. ULEARN (2007)
Open Source Science. MORST. (2007)
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Jutta Horstmann
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Jutta Horstmann is an IT consultant.
Her company "data in transit" provides Open Source software and services.
At the moment, she focusses on web programming, database applications and content management systems.
Before, she administrated UNIX and Linux systems as well as several database management system flavours.
Previous Presentations:
Linux Academy: System Administration Basics. Bremen, Informatica Feminale, September 2007
Practical Drupal - Case Studies, FrOSCon, St. Augustin, August 2007
Open Source CMS - Finding your way through a plenty of choices, LinuxTag, Berlin, Mai 2007
Collaborative Knowledge Management with Plone, Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon), Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, June 2006
Linux Training: Operating System, Desktop and Open Source Philosophy, FrauenComputerZentrum (fczb), Berlin, May 2006
Migration to Open Source Databases, Open Database Conference, Frankfurt/M., Germany, November 2005
Migration to Open Source Databases, O'Reilly European OSCON, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2005
Cryptography Workshop, Informatica Feminale, Bremen, Germany, September 2005
Connecting Ethiopia to the Internet Age by Free/OS Software, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, April 2004
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Selena Deckelmann
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Selena Deckelmann is a software engineer at End Point Corporation. She currently leads PDXPUG, a PostgreSQL Users Group, and helps organize Code n Splode, a programming group whose goal is to get more women involved in open source. She is on the board of Legion of Tech. In her spare time, she collects eggs from her chickens, gardens and occasionally mixes drinks for Portland Perl Mongers.
Previous Presentations:
ptop - PostgreSQL performance monitoring, PostgreSQL Conference East 2008
Wordpress vs Drupal, LUG Radio Live 2008
IM IN UR DATABASE, PerlMongers 2008
Leading Without Being In Charge, OSCON 2008
Running Successful User Groups, OSCON 2008
Tools for Local Communities, OSCON 2008
Sarah Houghton-Jan
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I am the Digital Futures Manager for the San José Public Library in the heart of the Silicon Valley. I also work as a consultant instructor for the Infopeople Project, serve on LITA's Top Technology Trends Committee, and speak internationally at live and online events for libraries and other institutions. I am perhaps best known for my blog, LibrarianInBlack.net, about the intersection of libraries and technology.
Previous Presentations:
Internet Librarian (multiple presentations): 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Computers in Libraries (multiple presentations): 2008
others: Public Library Association, Hawaii Library Association, California Library Association, WebJunction, Canadian Education Institute, Washington Library Association, San Francisco Future of Libraries Conference, Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, SirsiDynix Institute, Idaho Library Association 2020 Vision Conference, Al@din Librarians Group, Sacramento Public Library, San Mateo County Library, Santa Clara County Library, etc.