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Location: Australia | Sydney
Speaking Topics: Programming topics (specific languages | programming in general | tutorials) | Tools for programmers | Unix (tools | system) | Women in computing
Spoken Languages: English | Farsi

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• Quick Contact Angela

Location: Australia | Sydney
Speaking Topics: Collaboration | communities | online communities | social media | Web 2.0 | wiki | wikimedia | wikipedia | wikis
Spoken Languages: English

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       You can contact me by email at angela at wikia dot com

Angela Beesley has been involved with wikis for more than five years. With Jimmy Wales, she founded Wikia.com, a community-focused wiki company which is supporting the development of wikis on more than 6000 topics and in 70 different languages.

Angela chairs the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization which manages Wikipedia.

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• Quick Contact elky

Location: Australia | Sydney | NSW
Speaking Topics: Community Management | IRC Channel Management | Newbies | New Users | ubuntu | women in open source
Spoken Languages: English

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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.

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Location: Australia | Sydney
Speaking Topics: Consulting | Geek Girls | Polyglot Programming
Spoken Languages: English

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• Quick Contact Alegrya

Location: Australia | Sydney
Speaking Topics: social networking | people and technology | information systems integration

I'm interested in how people use technology, in particular the non-geeks among us (yes they really do exist). I enjoy telling people about things that they might get benefits from in a clear, easy to understand manner.

A passion of mine is sharing knowledge of open source software and how everybody can benefit and get involved with spreading the word and growing their knowledge on the matter.

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• Quick Contact carruthk

Location: Australia | Sydney
Speaking Topics: agile methods | blogging | digital strategy | online collaboration | social networking | Web | Women in IT

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Kate Carruthers has extensive experience in delivery of corporate web and e-commerce solutions for organisations such as AMP, GE and Westfield. She is deeply involved with open source and web 2.0 online communities.

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• Quick Contact ceibner

Location: Australia | Sydney
Speaking Topics: SSIS | Microsoft Dynamics CRM

I am currently based in Sydney, Australia working as a Senior System Designer for Cybner Computer Solutions who specialise in Microsoft CRM Implementation & Customisation.

I am now well and truly past half way through my Masters of Solution Development with CSU & IT Masters. I have worked in various roles in the IT industry since 1997 ranging from Testing, Database Development, Windows & Web Development to Training & Project Management.

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Location: Australia | Sydney
Speaking Topics: Ruby On Rails

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• Quick Contact silvia

Location: Australia | Sydney
Speaking Topics: open media software | media standards | xiph | annodex | anything to do with audio/video

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I am Silvia Pfeiffer and the CEO of Australian start-up Vquence providing services in social video metrics. I am also the vice-president of SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) and the president of the Annodex Association, a non-profit organisation created around the open source technology Annodex. I came to Australia in 1999 as a just-graduated PhD student in digital media. I joined the CSIRO to work on automated audio-visual content analysis algorithms for video.

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Location: Australia | Sydney | New South Wales
Speaking Topics: Computational Linguistics | Computational Semantics | Contributing to Free Software | Free software | linux | Python programming | Sentiment analysis | Starting a women's technical group

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Mary is a computational linguistics researcher and Free Software community member in Sydney Australia. She founded the Australian chapter of LinuxChix and has organised a couple of small women-in-Free Software events as part of linux.conf.au.

Mary has also worked as a software developer.

Conference organising experience:

• Co-organiser, LinuxChix mini-conference, linux.conf.au 2008
• Co-chair, linux.conf.au 2008 programme committee
• Organiser, LinuxChix mini-conference, linux.conf.au 2007