Marta Rybczynska

Location: France | Grenoble
Speaking Topics: anonymity | computer networks | computer security | cryptography | GNU/Linux | open source | operating systems | tcp/ip | localization | kde
Spoken Languages: English | Polish

Chani Armitage

Location: Vancouver | Canada
Speaking Topics: kde | kde/plasma
Spoken Languages: English

I'm a student at SFU, done summer of code 2006 and 2008 and doing it again this year (2009). I've been working on plasma stuff for the last year and a half, but just started talking about it recently. :)

Previous Presentations: 
linuxfest northwest -- how to create a plasmoid

Celeste Lyn Paul

Location: United States | Washington D.C.
Speaking Topics: kde | open source | usability

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Previous Presentations: 
Akademy: KDE Annual Conference
Information Architecture Summit
Southern California Linux Expo
Usability Professionals Association Annual Conference

Ana Beatriz Guerrero López

Location: France | Lyon | Sevilla | Spain
Speaking Topics: Debian | GNU/Linux | kde | linux | open source | Python | system administration | Women in IT
Spoken Languages: Spanish | English

Lydia Pintscher

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

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Lydia Pintscher is a cat herder by nature. She studies computer science at the university of Karlsruhe, Germany and is doing community work for KDE and related communities for many years now. She is the community manager of the popular music player Amarok and a member of KDE's community working group. On top of that Lydia is one of the administrators for KDE for Google Summer of Code and Season of KDE - two programs to help people get involved in Free Software by dedicated mentoring. In general she likes to help people make awesome things happen.

Previous Presentations: 
KDE 4 - The Dawn of a new Desktop
Linux Spirit: Rockin in the Open Source Community
Amarok - Forming the Core
Community Management 101
Pimp My Community

Jes Hall

Location: New Zealand | Wellington
Speaking Topics: kde | open source | systems administration | technical writing

I am a Linux Technical specialist at IBM New Zealand and a long-term contributer to the open source project KDE. I also have been writing for Linux Journal for a couple years now and just all-round dig Linux, opensource, and supporting women in science and technology.