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From [https://okfn.org/about/team/ this page]: Sally Deffor works part-time as the Project Coordinator for the [http://personal-data.okfn.org/ Open Data & Privacy project]. She is a former Google Policy Fellow who supported the development of some initiatives on Creative Commons, Open Access and OSS at the Kofi Annan ICT Centre. She has also worked as a communications specialist with the Tax Justice Network (Africa) and the USAID/ICFG (Ghana). She currently lives in Preston (UK) where she is finishing a PhD at UCLan, looking at the digital practices of online news-making. She also spends some time volunteering in her local community. You can find her on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/SDeffor @SDeffor].
bess@stanford.edu about: [httphttps://www.ibibliolinkedin.orgcom/pub/bess-sadler/4/336/?page_id=25b6 Bess Sadler]
Re-nominating Andromeda was last year's runner up in the keynote speaker voting and yanking/modding last year's short description. Formerly a developer with Unglue.it, she recently left full-time work there to work to help people librarians learn to code. Member As such, she's helped run a preconference at ALA Annual teaching Python and taught a jQuery workshop at a Code4Lib DC event. She gave a great keynote at Online Northwest 2014 entitled "[http://andromedayelton.com/talks/onw14/ Five Conversations about Code]". Andromed is a member of the LITA Board of Directors and advisor for Ada Initiative. [http://andromedayelton.com/about/ Andromeda Yelton]
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'''Nominations are now closed.''' Thanks to everyone who submitted one!
Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for [http://code4lib.org/conference/2015 Code4Lib 2015]. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.
== Amelia C. Abreu ==
Amelia Abreu lives in Portland, OR and works as a UX researcher. She is a PhD candidate at University of Washington's School of Information, where her dissertation research looks at the social aspects of data collection. Much of her recent writing, such as for [http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/quantify-everything-a-dream-of-a-feminist-data-future Model View Culture] and [https://medium.com/@ameliaabreu/latest Medium], addresses the intersection between UX, data collection, communities, and gender. She has written about [https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/39750/275.pdf?sequence=4 small data], [https://medium.com/@ameliaabreu/that-data-on-your-wrist-3e71dc1b3637 watches], and the [https://medium.com/@ameliaabreu/minium-viable-responsibility-850595f84f32 minimum viable responsibility] of tech companies performing user research in the wake of the Facebook emotional contagion experiments. Before starting her PhD program, Amelia worked as an archivist, a librarian, and a writer.
[https://twitter.com/ameliaabreu Amelia Abreu]
== Chris Bourg ==
Chris Bourg is Assistant University Librarian (AUL) for Public Services for the Stanford University Libraries, serves on the Steering Committee for [http://www.taiga-forum.org/ Taiga Forum], and is a sociologist by training. Chris is an outspoken advocate for diversity in libraries and lead Stanford University Libraries to implement a policy of not supporting conferences that lack a code of conduct. She was an organizing member of the "#libs4ada" campaign which raised over $16,000 for the Ada Initiative. Chris has written extensively on a number of topics, including gender, the military, and leadership. She blogs at [http://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/ Feral Librarian].
[http://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/about/ Chris Bourg]
== Deborah Bryant==
Deborah Bryant's lives in Portland and is Red Hat's Senior Director of [http://community.redhat.com/ Open Source and Standards]. Her experience is broad She has worked extensively as an open source consultant for governments, and deep (has earned an international reputation for expertise in the adoption and use of open source software and open development models in the public sector. In her previous role as Public Sector Communities Manager at [httpshttp://wwwosuosl.linkedin.comorg/in/opengovernment%20 LinkedInOregon State University’s Open Source Lab] : she founded and produced the annual Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) from 2005 to 2011. Also in that role she consulted with U.S. local, state and federal agencies as well as international governments to assist them in their understanding of open source, community, and its implications for policy and planning, public procurement and sourcing, economic development and work force training strategies. In 2010 Deborah received an [http://debbryantwww.oscon.com bio/oscon2010/public/schedule/speaker/31114 O’Reilly Open Source Convention]. Her work with open source adoption Open Source Award in government would make recognition of her qualified contribution to give us advice on how to push things within the institutions that we work open source communities and advocating its use ingovernment.
[http://debbryant.com/aboutbiography/ Deb Bryant]
== Kimberly Bryant ==
[http://www.blackgirlscode.com/about-bgc.html Kimberly Bryant]
== Amber Case ==
Amber Case is the Director of [http://pdx.esri.com/ Esri's R&D Center], Portland, where she works on next generation location-based technology. Previously, she co-founded Geoloqi. In 2012, she was named one of National Geographic's Emerging Explorers and made Inc Magazine's 30 under 30 with Geoloqi co-founder Aaron Parecki. Case has spoken at [http://www.ted.com/speakers/amber_case TED on technology and humans] and regularly speaks around the world. Case is a proponent of data ownership, and uses her domain as her own personal data store and identity provider. Case founded [http://www.indiewebcamp.com/ IndieWebCamp] with Tantek Çelik and Aaron Parecki in 2010. Case is interested in furthering the ideas of Calm Technology, wearable computing, and the future of the interface. You can follow her on Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/caseorganic @caseorganic].
[http://caseorganic.com/about Amber Case]
== Trevor A. Dawes ==
==Selena Deckelmann==
Selena Deckelmann lives in Portland, and is a [http://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/ major contributor to PostgreSQL ] and a data architect at Mozilla. She’s been involved with free and open source software since 1995 and began running conferences for PostgreSQL in 2007. In 2012, she founded [http://www.meetup.com/PyLadies-PDX/ PyLadiesPDX], a portland chapter of [http://pyladies.com/ PyLadies]. She's one founded [http://opensourcebridge.org/ Open Source Bridge], [http://postgresopen.org/ Postgres Open] and speaks internationally about open source, databases and community. You can find her on twitter ([http://twitter.com/selenamarie @selenamarie]) and on [http://chesnok.com/daily her blog]. She also [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehgO7pwkad4 keeps chickens] and gives a lot of The [http://www.chesnok.com/daily/conferences/ technical talks]. She was an advisor for two years to the [http://adainitiative.org/ Ada Initiative advisors], an organization dedicated to increasing the participation of women in open source and technology communities. She's a [http://www.whitecells.org/daily/speaking/index/ very experienced speaker] and looks like , you can view an interesting speaker (example of a recent talk here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ7qm6yglfE Ignite Portland talk on election rigging in Nigeria]) It looks like she's on an [http://www.chesnok.com/daily/2014/05/26/personal-email-sabbatical-july-10-october-15-2014/ email sabbatical] but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out how to get in touch with her. According to the internet, she also raises chickens.
[http://www.chesnok.com/daily/about/ Selena Deckelmann]
== Sally Deffor ==
[http://www.flossie.org/content/sally-deffor Sally Deffor]
[http://sarahjeong.net/about/ Sarah Jeong]
==Charles D. Knutson==
Dr. Charles D. Knutson is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of Brigham Young University and Director of the BYU SEQuOIA Lab where he conducts empirical research in software engineering, focusing on the dynamics of open source software construction. He is the Founder and Chairman of Kinpoint, Inc. a genealogy software company, Founder and Chairman of the non-profit Internet Safety Project, and host of the Internet Safety Podcast. He is the author of 130 publications and has delivered nearly 120 presentations around the world on topics including data communications, software engineering, Internet safety, and family history. Dr. Knutson holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Oregon State University and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. He was the recipient of the 2013 BYU Technology Transfer Award. Dr. Knutson is the Founder and Managing Partner of Ironwood Experts, where he has served as an expert witness in patent litigation cases for clients including Apple, Amazon, Comcast, Expedia, Novell, Microsoft, and Vizio.
[http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~knutson/ Charles D. Knutson]
==Christie Koehler==
Portland-based experienced open culture advocate, community organizer, computer programmer, writer and speaker. Co-chair of the annual Open Source Bridge conference, a co-founder and President of the Stumptown Syndicate, a technology education non-profit, and run runs both Code N Splode and Women Who Hack, user groups for women in technology. In 2012, she was recognized with an O’Reilly Open Source Award.
Last keynoted at the Wikiconference USA and wrote a book on Community Event planning.
== Bess Sadler ==
Bess Sadler is the manager of a software engineering team at Stanford University Library. She writes open source software and spends a lot of time on Free and Open Source Software projects like [http://projectblacklight.org/ Project Blacklight ] and [http://www.projecthydra.org/ Project Hydra], both of which she cofounded. Bess Sadler was a [http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2010/03/people/movers-shakers-2010/bess-sadler-movers-shakers-2010-tech-leaders/#_ 2010 Library Journal Mover and Shaker]. She also served as the co-chair of [http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-foss Electronic Information for Libraries—Free and Open Source Software] in 2008-2009. You can read a few Ada Lovelace Day posts about Bess Sadler [http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/2009/03/24/bess-sadler-library-geek/ here] and [http://www.eifl.net/news/ada-lovelace-day-bess-sadler here]. She maintains a [http://www.ibiblio.org/bess/ blog] and is [https://twitter.com/eosadler @eosadler] on Twitter.
==Dorothea Salo==
==Andromeda Yelton==
== Kortney Ziegler ==
Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an Oakland based award winning artist, director, writer, and the first person to hold the Ph.D. of African American Studies from Northwestern University. Dr. Ziegler is also the founder of [http://transhack.org/ Trans*H4CK]--the only tech event of its kind that spotlights trans* created tech and trans* led startups, and directed the feature-length documentary [http://www.stillblackfilm.org/ STILL BLACK: A Portrait of Black Transmen], runs the GLAAD Media Award nominated blog, [http://blackademic.com/ blac (k) ademic], and was recently named one of the Top 40 Under 40 LGBT activists by The Advocate Magazine and #29 of the most influential African Americans of 2013 by [http://www.theroot.com/articles/lists/2013/10/theroot_100/kortney_ryan_ziegler.html TheRoot100].
[http://drkrz.flavors.me/ Kortney Ziegler]
== Shauna Gordon-McKeon ==
Shauna Gordon-McKeon is a writer, speaker, teacher, and programmer who works actively in the free and open source software (FOSS), open science and medicine, and open government/civic tech communities. She works on the Open Science Collaboration, and OpenHatch.org , and is an active member of Ada Community. [http://www.shaunagm.net/ Click for more info about Shauna, a link to her blog, and her portfolio].
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