Esther Schindler

Location: Scottsdale | Arizona | USA
Speaking Topics: online community | open source | software development trends | developer careers
Spoken Languages: English

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A long-time technology evangelist and community instigator, Esther Schindler has been in the computer press since 1992. Her primary journalistic focus for the last decade has been software development and open source, and she’s contributed as writer or editor to ITExpertVoice.com, Software Test & Performance, InformIT.com, DevSource.com, and dozens of other publications. She’s written market research analyst reports since 2002; she wrote four books (including one that actually paid out its advance) and had her hand in writing or editing another eight.

Previous Presentations: 
Niche Media Digital Conference, September 2009. Presentation about building online communities for niche magazines and publications
O’Reilly’s Open Source Conference, July 2009. Led panel about “What open source projects need to know about dealing with the press.”
TopCoder International Contest, panel moderator, 2008.

Cheryl Colan

Location: Phoenix | Arizona | USA
Speaking Topics: Videoblogging | digital storytelling | technology in the classroom | personal media | media literacy | education | finding voice and identity
Spoken Languages: English

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Cheryl Colan teaches Digital Multimedia and Computer Graphics courses at Scottsdale Community College and at Phoenix College. She began her career in multimedia working at the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park, where she produced video and audio components for permanent exhibitions.

Previous Presentations: 
Poster Session: "Videoblogging at College: My Experiences as Teacher and Student" for New Media Consortium's Online Conference on the Convergence of Web Culture and Video, March 21-22, 2007
Advanced Video Lab Hands-On Lighting Workshop at BlogHer07, July 28, 2007
Videoblogging at She's Geeky, October 22, 2007