Melissa Draper

Location: Australia | Sydney | NSW
Speaking Topics: Community Management | IRC Channel Management | Newbies | New Users | ubuntu | women in open source
Spoken Languages: English

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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.

Previous Presentations: 
Canberra Linux Users Group - From Equality to Diversity: The Road Less Taken
Open Source Developers Conference - From Equality to Diversity: The Road Less Taken
Sydney Linux Users Group - From Equality to Diversity: The Road Less Taken

Stormy Peters

Location: USA | Colorado
Speaking Topics: open source | women in open source | online communities | open source policies | open source business

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Previous Presentations: 
Keynotes at SCALE and LinuxConf Australia: Would you do it again for free?
LinuxChix and Women in Open Source: What does a community manager do?
How to convince your manager to use open source software

Magni Onsoien

Location: Trondheim | Norway
Speaking Topics: DNS | domain | domain policy | linux | linuxchix | system administration | Unix | women in open source | Women in IT

I work as a system administrator for Norid, the .no domain registry. I have previously worked as a system administrator for a university and a consulting company for 8 year, before that I worked part-time while studying.
I have a MS degree in Informatics, my thesis was about Women in Open Source.

My professional interests include DNS and name server infrastructure, Linux, Unix and system administration. I also have an interest in women in open source and in IT in general, and has worked to increase the number for female applicants and students while I was at university.

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I have spoken at FOSDEM, Debconf and several local events both at work and at university.

sree

Location: INDIA
Speaking Topics: Artificial-Intelligence | drupal | Expert systems | MySQL | php | RDF | semantic web | Virtual-Reality | women in open source
Spoken Languages: English