Lucretia M. Pruitt

Location: USA | Colorado | Denver
Speaking Topics: Process Flow based Architecture | Data Architecture | Metadata Repositories | Code Development from User Specs | microblogging | social media | social networking | Training | Translating Corporate-speak into Geek-speak | User Interface
Spoken Languages: English

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An ex-college professor, Lucretia used to teach Computer Information Systems (CIS) to hapless undergraduate students who were planning to use the degree to advance in the computing and IT fields. As such, she is quite comfortable standing up in front of geeks and presenting to audiences of varying skill levels from novice to advanced, hard-core coder to business executive in charge of leading a company into its technological future.

Previous Presentations: 
BlogWorld & New Media Expo 2008 - Twitter: building the connections that drive traffic
Thin Air Summit 2008 - Pre-conference training on new media tools

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