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2015 Invited Speakers Nominations

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==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 ==
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].
[http://www.flossie.org/content/sally-deffor Sally Deffor]
== 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 cofoundedbessShe was 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. She is [https://twitter.com/eosadler @stanfordeosadler] on twitter.edu You can read a few Ada Lovelace Day posts aboutBess Sadler [http: //cavlec.yarinareth.net/2009/03/24/bess-sadler-library-geek/ here] and [http://www.ibiblioeifl.orgnet/bessnews/?page_id=2ada-lovelace-day-bess-sadler here].
==Dorothea Salo==
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