Women of OSCON 2010
The world’s premier open source convention, OSCON, returned to Portland, Oregon just a few weeks ago. Since 1999, O’Reilly Media, publishing home of the best geek books ever, has presented OSCON as an exploration of all things open source to the entire industry.
Program chair Allison Randal, along with Edd Dumbill, welcomed attendees back to “the City of Roses, beer and bacon doughnuts”. (True story.) Randal is the architect of Parrot, chairman of the Parrot Foundation, on the board of directors of the Python Software Foundation and the Perl Foundation, and founder and president of Onyx Neon Press.
Keynote speakers at OSCON 2010 included:
- Jennifer Pahlka, Coding the Next Generation of American History
- Stormy Peters, Is Your Data Free?
- Jill Tarter, Open SETIQuest - It Will Be What You Make It!
Additionally, Deborah Bryant and Leslie Hawthorn won O’Reilly Open Source Awards this year for making significant contributions to the overall open source community. Hawthorn was recognized for her tireless work with Google’s Summer of Code, “a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects”. Bryant is the Open Source Communities Manager at Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab, where “she advocates and creates collaboration between public, private and academic concerns in pursuit of the successful adoption of open source technology and models.”
Be sure to check out the ton of presentation and interview videos taken at the event.
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