LinuxChix includes a number of women who are available to give technical talks or training sessions on Linux, free software and a wide variety of other topics. (Some of their past talks related to women in Linux can be found on our bibliography page.
| Name
| Location
| Website
| Contact info
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| Laura Bowser
| Washington, DC
| http://www.geminisecurity.com
| Contact
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Topics:
- Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
- network and host security
- security management and policies
| Bio:
Laura has worked for five years in the security industry and previously as a unix system administrator. She has an MS in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University and is working towards an MBA at the University of Maryland - University College. As a person with both technical and management experience, she offers a unique perspective on security policy and risk management. Laura is currently serving as the Director of Security Assessments for Gemini Security Solutions.
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| Máirín Duffy
| Boston, MA USA
| http://mihmo.livejournal.com/
| Contact
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Topics:
- using open source creative tools - Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus
- interaction design & usability for GNOME and web applications, also UI mockup workflow with FOSS tools
- Fedora & the Fedora community, micro-community building in a large FOSS project
- free artwork/creative assets
| Bio:
Máirín graduated with an M.S. in Human Computer Interaction from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is currently an interaction designer in Red Hat's Engineering group. She is also the leader of the Fedora art team and is a design contributor to the GNOME desktop project.
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| Tina Gasperson
| Tampa, Florida
| www.gasperson.com
| Contact
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Topics:
- Open source in business
- Building a business on open source
| Bio:
M.A. in counseling; IT trade journalist and reporter with expertise in open source for the enterprise and open source business models.
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| Leslie Hawthorn
| Mountain View (but willing to travel)
| http://code.google.com
| mebelh at gmail dot com
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Topics:
- Organizing & Facilitating Community Events
| Bio:
Leslie Hawthorn held various roles at Google before joining the Open Source Programs Office in March 2006. She manages the Google Summer of Code program and the Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series. She has organized and facilitated many open-source community conferences, meetups and hackathons at Google's campuses. Proud to be known as Google's geek herder, Leslie holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from U.C. Berkeley.
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| Brianna Laugher
| Melbourne, Australia
| http://brianna.modernthings.org/
| Contact
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Topics:
- wikis
- free content
- free culture movement
| Bio:
I've been an editor with the Wikimedia Foundation projects since 2005, in particular Wikimedia Commons, a multilingual media collection.
In August 2007 I gave two talks at Wikimania (the annual Wikimedia conference) - one on "newbie culture" in the English Wikipedia, and another was a tutorial on using Wikimedia Commons.
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| Michelle Murrain
| Massachusetts, US
| http://www.metacentric.org
| Contact
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Topics:
- Nonprofit Technology
- Open Source in Nonprofit organizations
- Open Standards
- Web application technology
- Women in Science and Technology
| Bio:
Michelle Murrain, Ph.D., principal of MetaCentric Technology Advising, has a background in neuroscience, and has more than 15 years of nonprofit and educational technology experience, and is considered a leader in the nonprofit technology field.
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| Akkana Peck
| San Jose, CA
| http://shallowsky.com/linux/
| Contact
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Topics:
- GIMP
- Mozilla, Javascript and web development
- bug fixing, scripting and programming, especially for non-programmers
- astronomy and other math/science topics.
Bio:
Akkana Peck is a freelance software engineer and author of the book Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional. She has contributed to numerous open source projects, particularly Mozilla, is a co-coordinator of LinuxChix, and has presented at numerous conferences, special interest clubs and schools.
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| Nur Aini Rakhmawati
| Asia
| http://nuraini.net (English) and http://ai23.wordpress.com (Indonesian)
| Contact
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Topics:
- Mobile Ad Hoc Network
- Joomla
- Wireless
- Woman Movement in Open Source
| Bio:
I am a lecturer of Information System Department, FTIF, ITS, Indonesia(E-business group research) Making open source course syllabus. Doing master degree in NTUST-Taiwan with Wireless Research Subject Area. Writing some articles that are related with Linux in INFOLINUX magazine. Member of Joomla Development Working Group (http://joomla.org).
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| Jacinta Richardson
| Melbourne, Australia (will travel)
| http://use.perl.org/~jarich
| Contact
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Topics:
- Perl
- Programming
- Optimisation
- Open source in business
- Social networking
| Bio:
Jacinta Richardson runs Perl Training Australia and has been actively involved in running the Australian Open Source Developers' Conference every year since 2004. She speaks regularly at this and other conferences and user groups throughout Australia.
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| Fazia Begum Rizvi
| Texas
| http://faziarizvi.blogspot.com/
| Contact
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Topics:
- Web development in higher education
- Deploying a web content management system at a university
- Women in web development/design
- Women and online communities
- Advocating accessibility
| Bio:
Internet connected and active cyber citizen since 1988, Fazia Rizvi is an anthropologist who brings a unique understanding of the online world to software projects. With over 12 years of web development experience in higher education, her background includes everything from design to development, front-line customer support, training and documentation as well as strategic planning and advocating for web accessibility. She was included in the University's permanent exhibit entitled, "'First Women' - SWT Women: The First 100 Years". Her research focuses on the ways in which women form community online.
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| Brenda Wallace
| Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
| http://coffee.geek.nz
| Contact
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Topics:
- PHP
- memcache, e-acclerator
- lighttpd (and fast cgi)
- unittest driven development
- sms automation
- mobile wap, cellphone and pda software
| Bio:
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.
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