Meredith L. Patterson

Location: CA | San Francisco | United States
Speaking Topics: c | c++ | Databases | free culture | postgresql | programming | project management | Python | security | software engineering | Web 2.0 | open source | blogging | Django
Spoken Languages: English | some French

Web links / Blogs: 
Radio Free Meredith
Meredith L. Patterson
Previous Presentations: 
CodeCon 2005: "SciTools: The grand unified web-based toolkit for genetic design and analysis
Black Hat 2005: "Stopping Injection Attacks with Computational Theory"
CodeCon 2006 / O'Reilly Emerging Tech 2006: "Some of These Things are Just Like the Others"
San Francisco PostgreSQL Users' Group (2006, 2007, 2008)
SuperHappyDevHouse (2007)
USENIX Workshop on Usability, Psychology and Security 2008
Presentation Web Links: 
Stopping Injection Attacks with Computational Theory

Selena Deckelmann

Location: Portland
Speaking Topics: automation | Databases | drupal | monitoring | Open Source Community | postgresql | sysadmin | system administration

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Web links / Blogs: 
Tending The Garden
PostgreSQL Users Groups

Selena Deckelmann is a software engineer at End Point Corporation. She currently leads PDXPUG, a PostgreSQL Users Group, and helps organize Code n Splode, a programming group whose goal is to get more women involved in open source. She is on the board of Legion of Tech. In her spare time, she collects eggs from her chickens, gardens and occasionally mixes drinks for Portland Perl Mongers.

Previous Presentations: 
ptop - PostgreSQL performance monitoring, PostgreSQL Conference East 2008
Wordpress vs Drupal, LUG Radio Live 2008
IM IN UR DATABASE, PerlMongers 2008
Leading Without Being In Charge, OSCON 2008
Running Successful User Groups, OSCON 2008
Tools for Local Communities, OSCON 2008

Lorna Mitchell

Location: Leeds | UK
Speaking Topics: best practices | Databases | linux | Open Source Software | php | subversion | Web Services
Spoken Languages: English

Web links / Blogs: 
LornaJane
PHPWomen
Ibuildings
TechPortal

I work for Ibuildings "The PHP Professionals", working remotely from my home in Leeds. I host the Dutch PHP Conference for my employers, dealing with speakers, schedules and promotion of this major european event, I'm also the editor of their developer portal site http://techportal.ibuildings.com and regularly write for this and other outlets. I'm a regular speaker on the PHP conference circuit and am passionate about open source technologies.

Previous Presentations: 
Dutch PHP Conference 2008
PHP London User Group June 2008
ZendCon Uncon 2008
Leeds Girl Geek Dinner
Geekup Leeds, Geekup Sheffield
PHP North West User Group (frequently!)
php|tek 2009
FOWA On Tour 2009
PHP North West Conference 2009
PHP Barcelona 2009
PHPBenelux 2010
PHPUK 2010
Tek-X
Presentation Web Links: 
SVN Saves Lives
Enterprise Web Development
PHP Deployment with SVN
Linux-Fu for PHP Developers
Using and Understanding the Community
Architecting Web Services
Practical SVN for PHP Developers
Passing the Joel Test in the PHP World
Working with Web Services
Best Practice in Web Service Design

Andrea Schweer

Location: New Zealand | Hamilton
Speaking Topics: java | SQL | linux | Version control | HTML | open source | XHTML | context-awareness | XML | XSLT | semantic web | RDF | OWL | cvs | subversion | Databases | Apache | Tomcat | JUnit | Ant | LaTeX