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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]

Amber Case is the Director of [http://pdx.esri.com/ Esri's R&D Center], Portland-based, working where she works on next generation location-based technology. Data 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. Frequent speakerCase 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. Previously she has keynoted the Digital Strategies for Heritage Conference, Rotterdam, Netherlands and given TED and SXSW talks You can follow her on Cyborg Anthropology, a topic she's currently editing a book aboutTwitter [http://www.twitter.com/caseorganic @caseorganic].

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.

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].

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.

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.

bess@stanford.edu about: [httphttps://www.ibibliolinkedin.orgcom/pub/bess-sadler/4/336/?page_id=25b6 Bess Sadler]

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].

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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