Laura Scott

Location: United States | Colorado | Boulder
Speaking Topics: drupal | open source | Building a business with Open Source | Building Community
Spoken Languages: English

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

Emily Chang

Location: San Francisco | California (USA)
Speaking Topics: Design | user interfaces | open source

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Liz Henry

Location: San Francisco Bay Area | California (USA)
Speaking Topics: blogging | blog platforms | bridgeblogging | community | Diversity | free speech | futurism | open source | programming for non-programmers | social media | wikis | Women in IT | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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I have organized various unconferences and helped with large (1000+) person technology conferences and can speak on that topic. I also ran a Wiki Wednesday monthly meeting which ran in multiple cities for over a year.

I've spoken at BlogHer, SXSWi, various BarCamps, wiki meetups, and various SF and literary conferences.

Kirrily Robert

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

Previous Presentations: 
O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2008 - "People for Geeks" (Tutorial)
OSDC 2007 - Test Driven Development (Tutorial)

Mel Chua

Location: USA | Boston
Speaking Topics: accessibility | bahasa geek to english translation | documentation without tears | electrical engineering | engineering education | hacker culture | olpc | open source | unconferences | universal design | user groups | wrangling volunteers (cat-herding)
Spoken Languages: English

My name is Mel. I've been called a hacker by other hackers. I have a large piece of paper saying "Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Bachelors of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering" and a small piece of paper saying "One Laptop Per Child QA/Support Engineer," but my favorite tags are from teammates: "Swiss Army Person" and "hack of all trades."

Previous Presentations: 
Linuxfest Northwest 2008, Bellingham WA, USA - One Laptop Per Child track (multiple presentations on software development for the XO stack)
OLPC Chicago meetup, Google Chicago January 2008 - organizer and facilitator
OLPC Game Jam, Boston MA 2007 - coordinator and open space facilitator

Alison Wheeler

Location: London | Europe | London UK | Glasgow
Speaking Topics: developing user-led content | internationalisation localisation and global marketing | managing user-generated content | online identity & trust | open content | open source | social networking | Web 2.0 | wikimedia | wikipedia | wikis | hacking code | schema sense
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)

Leslie Hawthorn

Location: California | Mountain View | U.S.A.
Speaking Topics: Community Building | Geek Herding | open source
Spoken Languages: Spanish | English

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Leslie Hawthorn held various roles at Google before joining the Open Source Programs Office in March 2006. She manages the Google Summer of Code program and the Google Highly Open Participation Contest. Leslie also facilitates open source community hackathons, both at Google's Corporate HQ and beyond. She holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from U.C. Berkeley, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her fiance Ben.

Previous Presentations: 
HISA 2008: Special Keynote - Creating and Growing Sustainable Communities
BSDCan 2008: Invited Speaker - The *BSD Projects and Google Summer of Code
linux.conf.au 2008: Google and Open Source
OSCON 2007: The Google Open Source Update
Linux User's Group of Davis: Google Summer of Code and Open Source in Education (May 2007)

Nelly Yusupova

Location: NYC
Speaking Topics: WordPress | blogging | social networking | women in technology | Web 2.0 | CSS | database design | SEO | open source | online marketing | leadership | e-commerce | careers in technology | building communities | website development | php programming
Spoken Languages: Russian | English

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Nelly Yusupova - CTO, Webgrrls International/Cybergrrl Inc. and Founder of DigitalWoman.com

Previous Presentations: 
BlogHer, Universities, High Schools, Webgrrls

Helen Baxter

Location: New Zealand | Auckland | Waitakere
Speaking Topics: Collaboration | community | content | creativity | drupal | innovation | knowledge | open source | social media | Web 2.0
Spoken Languages: English

**********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)

Celeste Lyn Paul

Location: United States | Washington D.C.
Speaking Topics: kde | open source | usability

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Previous Presentations: 
Akademy: KDE Annual Conference
Information Architecture Summit
Southern California Linux Expo
Usability Professionals Association Annual Conference