Jacinta Richardson

Location: Australia | Melbourne | Victoria
Speaking Topics: community | Community Building | Conference organisation | online marketing | perl | Small Businesses | social networking | software engineering | technical writing | Training | Working From Home
Spoken Languages: English

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Jacinta Richardson has a Bachelor of Engineering (Software) (hons) and Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne. Jacinta is both the managing director and training coordinator of Perl Training Australia. In addition to the management parts of this job, Jacinta does technical writing. bespoke development and participates in the training courses. Having been involved in the business from the start, Jacinta has a lot to say about starting and running your own small IT business.

Previous Presentations: 
Not common enough code optimisations, linux.conf.au linuxchix miniconf 2008, OSDC 2007
Compulsive networking, linux.conf.au linuxchix miniconf 2007, OSDC 2006
Conferences for beginners, Open Source Developers' Conference, 2006
Understanding greediness (a guide to regular expressions), OSDC 2006

Nancy Wichmann

Location: USA | Columbia | SC
Speaking Topics: drupal | project management | php | Working From Home | developing

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Certified project manager (PMP). Former IBM mainframe systems programmer. Drupal contributor. Freelance website developer.

Previous Presentations: 
SHARE (IBM systems programmers) 1984-1996
Many executive presentations on various projects

Dori Smith

Location: CA | San Francisco Bay Area | USA
Speaking Topics: java | gadgets | blogging | Working From Home | Internet | women in technology | Web 2.0 | Javascript | CSS | OSX | RSS | SEO | Web standards | Dreamweaver | Spry | Women in IT | HTML | Technology | community | women in tech | Ajax | Widgets | Mac OS X | DHTML | gender | OS X | Web | weblogs

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How many hats can one woman wear?
I'm an expert in fields from the Mac (since 1992), Web development (since 1995), programming (since 1977--yes, really), online communities (since 1994), and weblogging (since 1999). I've written and taught about all of these, and more. I've authored or co-authored:
• "Ajax Essential Training" video course (Lynda.com, 2008)
• "JavaScript Essential Training" video course (Lynda.com, 2007)
• "Dreamweaver CS3 for Windows & Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide" (Peachpit Press, 2007)

Previous Presentations: 
• Macworld Expo, on topics from "Web Design and Delivery" (two-day Power Tools conference), "Webmaster 2003," "Advanced Webmaster Applications," "JavaScript Bootcamp," and "JavaScript Dynamic HTML Wizardry." Led one of the two MacBrainiac challenge teams in 2006.
• Web-related conferences including Voices that Matter, Webstock (New Zealand), SxSW (2002, 2006, 2007, 2008), Web Design World, Web Builder, CNET Builder.com Live!, Script 'Scape Geek Cruise, Perl Whirl Geek Cruise, Web Design '99, Web Design World '99, and JavaScript '98.
• Mac-related conferences including O'Reilly Mac OS X Conferences, NCMUG Mac Computer Expos, and MacMania Geek Cruises.

Robin Wilensky

Location: NYC | Long Island
Speaking Topics: blogging | corporate social responsibility | desktop virtualization | educational technology | green computing | Internet Skills | openoffice.org | open source | social networking | software | technology in education | Web 2.0 | women in technology | Working From Home

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Robin Wilensky is a technologist who has worked at various technology vendors for over 13 years. She is currently a senior systems engineer at Sun Microsystems covering downtown NYC and specializes in software and desktop technologies. She is also the team lead for the Web 2.0 initiative for her area. Prior to Sun, Robin was a systems engineer at Netscape Communications during the Web 1.0 era. She began her career as a technical support specialist for Information Builders, Inc.

Patricia Mayo

Location: Greenville | South Carolina
Speaking Topics: blogging | Working From Home | virtual collaboration | copywriting | graphic design | social media | new media | search engine optimization | SEO | SMO | pay per click | PPC | online advertising | digital music | corporate social responsibility | CSR

Patricia Mayo has ghostwritten countless search engine optimized articles, copy for websites, ebooks, and ever so infamous five page sales letters. As “Miche” Patricia problogged at Audeamus for Creative Weblogging, which snagged a front page on The Issue and was named a top Social Entrepreneurship blog a few times.

Rachel Hamilton-Williams

Location: New Zealand | Wellington
Speaking Topics: Business plus Baby | Infant Potty Training | Running an IT Business | Starting Open Source Projects from Scratch | Working From Home

I've been running Katipo Communications for over 10 years. In that time we've ranged in size but are usually 7-10 people. We are a team that works from home developing websites and open source software.

We built Koha - the worlds first Open Source Library System in 1999-2000. Our latest OS project is Kete, a collaborative digital archiving system.

Previous Presentations: 
LIANZA Library Conferences
Kete Community Day
Software Cluster Events