Melissa Draper
Melissa Draper is a web developer by trade, who invests most of her free time into Open Source advocacy. She has written articles for Linux.com, assists with events at the local LUG and serves on the Linux Australia Council as an ordinary member, but her primary focus area has been the Ubuntu community.
Within Ubuntu, Melissa leads the local Australian Ubuntu team and has helped coordinate the Local Community teams project at the global level, attending Developer Summits in California and Spain as part of this. She has also contributed to the Ubuntu Marketing Team, and helps the projects 1400+ IRC users have a relatively sane IRC experience, among other things.
On top of all this, she advocates the participation of Women in computing and especially Open Source projects through initiatives like LinuxChix and Ubuntu-Women.