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• Quick Contact nightrose

Location: Karlsruhe | Germany
Speaking Topics: social networking | kde | Free software | Marketing | Web 2.0 | social media | Women in IT | open source | Contributing to Free Software | community | Amarok | Kubuntu | marketing in open source | IRC
Spoken Languages: English | German

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I am Community Manager for Amarok and contribute to KDE and Kubuntu in various ways like community management, packaging, user support, promotion and advocacy.

• Quick Contact akkana

Location: San Francisco Bay Area | USA | CA | San Jose
Speaking Topics: astronomy | Contributing to Free Software | Digital Photography | firefox | gimp | linuxchix | GNU/Linux
Spoken Languages: English

Akkana Peck is a freelance software engineer and writer based in San Jose, CA, USA. She specializes in free open source software such as Linux, Mozilla Firefox and GIMP. She was a longtime Mozilla developer and has contributed to numerous other open source projects, is active in educational groups such as LinuxChix, and is the author of the book "Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional."

• Quick Contact mary

Location: Australia | Sydney | New South Wales
Speaking Topics: Computational Linguistics | Computational Semantics | Contributing to Free Software | Free software | linux | Python programming | Sentiment analysis | Starting a women's technical group

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Mary is a computational linguistics researcher and Free Software community member in Sydney Australia. She founded the Australian chapter of LinuxChix and has organised a couple of small women-in-Free Software events as part of linux.conf.au.

Mary has also worked as a software developer.

Conference organising experience:

• Co-organiser, LinuxChix mini-conference, linux.conf.au 2008
• Co-chair, linux.conf.au 2008 programme committee
• Organiser, LinuxChix mini-conference, linux.conf.au 2007