Daniela Capistrano (@dcap on Twitter) hails from California but in 2004 gave up road rage and boredom for the Big Apple. Since then she has been a creative nomad, most recently residing in an increasingly gentrified neighborhood in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
She is 5ft4 and not Italian. Nope. She is a Chicana Mexi-CAN (not a Mexi-can’t).
Christine Herron has spent her career finding new and innovative information technologies. She is currently a Principal with First Round Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm. Previously, Christine was a director at Omidyar Network, where she developed the Media practice strategy and drove $15 million in early-stage placements.
Tara ‘miss rogue’ Hunt has spent most of her adult life online, either participating in or building communities. From the first wave of online marketing when she was in Canada, showing companies how to brave this new medium, all the way to being part of one of the companies in Silicon Valley that led the wave into Web 2.0: the participatory web.
Lauren Cooney has ten years of experience building technical communities, strategies, and GTM plans for enterprise software companies.
I am Community and Release Manager for Amarok and contribute to KDE and Kubuntu in various ways like community management, packaging, user support, promotion and advocacy.
With her origins in marketing strategy, Kristy Bennett found her way to the Linux community in 2005 and has never looked back. Kristy is an active proponent of the Free and Open Source Software community and openly shares her skills and experience online, at speaking engagements and through her management mentoring program.
Vid Ayer has boot-strapped an entreprenuer firm earlier and is currently undergoing the process for the second. She is also involved with the local entreprenuer communities like Kickstart.in and OCC (open coffee club), which is planning to have a women entreprenuer's cell soon.