Brenda Wallace
Brenda writes and uses opensource code for telcos. She works with SMS, WAP, and embedded applications for cellphones and PDAS, realtime billing, remote data access and phone number portability. She wishes she had more Erlang projects. Brenda likes the technology coming from the PHP community and knows life is too short to use java.
According to the organisers of Gadgets, Games & Geeks '08:
Wellington’s own Girl Geek supremo and open source advocate extraordinaire, the irrepressible Brenda co-founded the monthly developer picnic known as SuperHappyDevHouse. Describing herself as a “mobile technology wrangler”, Brenda develops open source code for mobile applications at Catalyst I.T.
Brenda Wallace was declared the superhero of open source in
Wellington, by Wellingtonista in 2007.
Coffee Geek AKA Brenda Wallace AKA Taniwhaiti on flickr is the superhero of open source in Wellington. She's spearheaded the successful and very popular SuperHappyDevHouseAotearoa - a monthly hackathon where coders from across Wellington hang in one place and get their code on. Why this rocks is because SHDH is not about people from different companies competing or poaching staff, but about bringing together like-minded geeks to share knowledge, and that is just a little bit awesome. Plus she has the largest collection of gadgets in the whole of Wellington, takes fantastic photos of our city, and how could we not include someone who is so passionate about coffee that they have it in their URL?
Brenda contribute patches to Drupal frequently (mostly postgresql compat), as well as a few contrib modules. She spends far too much time playing with webservices.