Kirrily Robert

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.

Previous Presentations: 
OSDC 2007 - Packaging Perl Modules (Presentation)
OSDC 2007 - Test Driven Development (Tutorial)
O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2008 - "People for Geeks" (Tutorial)
O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2009 - "Standing Out in the Crowd" (Keynote)
O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2009 - "Forking Encouraged: Folk Programming, Open Source, and Social Software Development" (Presentation)

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: php | Python | The impending robot apocalypse | mobile | linux | memcache | postgresql | gadgets | sms | wap | mms | perl | drupal | open source | unit testing | kannel | opcode caching | hackfest
Spoken Languages: English

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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)