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)

Jacinta Richardson

Location: Australia | Melbourne | Victoria
Speaking Topics: community | Community Building | Conference organisation | online marketing | perl | Small Businesses | social networking | software engineering | technical writing | Training | Working From Home
Spoken Languages: English

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Jacinta Richardson has a Bachelor of Engineering (Software) (hons) and Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne. Jacinta is both the managing director and training coordinator of Perl Training Australia. In addition to the management parts of this job, Jacinta does technical writing. bespoke development and participates in the training courses. Having been involved in the business from the start, Jacinta has a lot to say about starting and running your own small IT business.

Previous Presentations: 
Not common enough code optimisations, linux.conf.au linuxchix miniconf 2008, OSDC 2007
Compulsive networking, linux.conf.au linuxchix miniconf 2007, OSDC 2006
Conferences for beginners, Open Source Developers' Conference, 2006
Understanding greediness (a guide to regular expressions), OSDC 2006

Brenda Wallace

Location: New Zealand | Wellington
Speaking Topics: opensource | php | The impending robot apocalypse | mobile | linux | memcache | eaccelerator | postgresql | gadgets | sms | wap | mms | postgresql data replication | perl | drupal | super happy dev house | unit testing | kannel
Spoken Languages: English

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Brenda writes and uses opensource code for telcos. She works with SMS, WAP, and embedded applications for cellphones and PDAS, realtime billing, remote data access and phone number portability. She wishes she had more Erlang projects. Brenda likes the technology coming from the PHP community and knows life is too short to use java.

Previous Presentations: 
Memcache - Linux.conf.au 2008
Php + eacclerator - OSCON 2007
Memcache, postgresql - Wellington Perl Mongers
Memcache, eacclerator - Wellington PHP Users' Group
Bucardo - Wellington Postgresql Users' Group
Adding SMS to applications @ Super Happy Dev House Aotearoa
Wellington Geek Networking @ Summer of Code (Wellington)
Open Source Licensing @ Linuxchix Wellington
Linuxchix in NZ @ Perl Mongers
Managing Database Schema Patches with Perl
Simple Test -- Natcoll Wellington
Girl Geek Dinners at Microsoft Tech Ed (MC)