“Heroes”, presented by Pia Waugh

29 Jan 2008 - 01:20
29 Jan 2008 - 11:10
Australia/Melbourne

All over the world women are discovering that they have special abilities, and that they are not alone. Come on a journey to hear about some of the amazing women in FOSS from all around the world, their achievements, how you can get involved and how to get more women involved.

Date and time

09:20–10:10, Tuesday 29th January 2008, LinuxChix miniconf.

Speaker biography

Pia Waugh is a community leader both in Australia and internationally as Vice President of Linux Australia and President of Software Freedom International. She was also on the linux.conf.au 2007 organising team. She has spoken at Software Livre in Brazil, FOSS events in China, the Open Source World Conferences in Spain, the World Summit of Information Society (United Nations) in Switzerland, linux.conf.au in New Zealand and linux.conf.au, education au, Making Links, various TechGirls events and many more in Australia! She is passionate about improving the world by getting great technologies to people who need them, and creating a well-connected global society where anyone can play and succeed. She has worked as a consultant, research coordinator, solutions architect, systems administrator and policy Open Source advisory.

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