Miia Ranta



Melissa Draper is a web developer by trade, who invests most of her free time into Open Source advocacy. She has written articles for Linux.com, assists with events at the local LUG and serves on the Linux Australia Council as an ordinary member, but her primary focus area has been the Ubuntu community.
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.