Leslie Hawthorn

Location: California | Mountain View | U.S.A.
Speaking Topics: Community Building | Geek Herding | open source
Spoken Languages: Spanish | English

Photo: 
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Web links / Blogs: 
Leslie's Personal Blog
Google's Open Source Blog

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 Google Highly Open Participation Contest. Leslie also facilitates open source community hackathons, both at Google's Corporate HQ and beyond. She holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from U.C. Berkeley, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her fiance Ben.

Previous Presentations: 
HISA 2008: Special Keynote - Creating and Growing Sustainable Communities
BSDCan 2008: Invited Speaker - The *BSD Projects and Google Summer of Code
linux.conf.au 2008: Google and Open Source
OSCON 2007: The Google Open Source Update
Linux User's Group of Davis: Google Summer of Code and Open Source in Education (May 2007)