[TriLUG-announce] Reminder: June 12 Meeting: Women in F/OSS Panel presented by GDI-RDU

Bill Farrow bill at arrowsreach.com
Wed Jun 4 09:07:09 EDT 2014


Topic: Women in F/OSS
Presented by: The Raleigh-Durham chapter of Girl Develop It, with
moderator Julia Elman.
When: Thursday, 12th June 2014, 7pm (pizza from 6:50pm)
Where: NC State Engineering Building 2 Room 1021, Centennial Campus
Parking: The parking decks and Oval Drive street parking are free after 5pm
Public Transit: Wolfline Summer Service and Capital Area Transit.
Sponsor: Open Invention Network (OIN)
Website: http://trilug.org/2014-06-12/women-in-foss

Come hear from talented women who are contributing to various Free
and/or Open Source Software (F/OSS) projects.

Confirmed Panelists:

Karen Tracey: Django Core Committer, Lead Developer and Technical
Manager at Caktus Consulting Group, LLC., Crossword Constructor and
Crazy Cat Lady.

Andrea Villanes: Co-founder of Women in Technology Perú, winner of the
Anita Pass-It-On award for her outreach work in Perú, and Data
Scientist at the Institute for Advanced Analytics.

Sandi Metz: Sandi Metz distilled 30+ years of experience into her book
"Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby" (http://poodr.com), which
reflects a deep bias towards practical solutions and working software.
She worked for many years at Duke University but now independently
consults and teaches.

Amy Hendrix: Amy Hendrix is a regular core contributor and community
leader for WordPress. She works as a Web Engineer at 10up.com, teaches
on web-dev-related matters for Girl Develop It, and messes around with
swords.

Lenore Ramm: Development/tier-4 support/operations for Identity
Management team at Duke. An artist with a bachelor's in Computer
Science.


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