I enjoy sharing my knowledge and empowering people with technology. I have been a systems administrator for 12 years, worked in web design for 10 years, and have presented technical courses for a wide variety of topics to age groups from children to seniors.
In 2007, I branched off the 8 year old http://linuxchic.net website by starting the weekly tech show, http://alternageek.com which focuses on a broad range of technology subjects.
Topics I prefer include WordPress, LAMP, Linux, systems administration, VMware virtualization, podcasting, and blogging.
I always enjoy giving talks, and have always received a lot of positive feedback on them. If you'd like me to give a talk or workshop at your event contact me. I am prepared to give talks in English as well as German on a number of topics ranging from Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS), (Debian) Linux, Userfriendly System Administration and Women in FLOSS to technical topics or speaker training.
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.
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.
I'm a founding partner of Blue Gecko -- Monitoring, administering, and tuning Oracle and other database environments at client's site with our Remote DBA services
Mary is a computational linguistics researcher and Free Software community member in Sydney Australia. She founded the Australian chapter of LinuxChix and has organised a couple of small women-in-Free Software events as part of linux.conf.au.
Mary has also worked as a software developer.
Conference organising experience:
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.