[TriLUG-announce] June 12 Meeting: Women in F/OSS Panel presented by GDI-RDU

[Barry Peddycord III]

Topic: Women in F/OSS
Presented by: The Raleigh-Durham chapter of Girl Develop It, with 
moderator Julia Elman.
When: Thursday, 12th June 2014, 7pm (pizza from 6:50pm)
Where: NC State Engineering (Building and Room TBD), Centennial Campus
Website: http://trilug.org/2014-06-12/women-in-foss

Come hear from talented women who are contributing to various Free 
and/or Open Source Software (F/OSS) projects. Moderated by Julia Elman, 
our confirmed panelists are:

  * Karen Tracey
  * Andrea Villanes: Co-founder of Women in Technology Perú, winner of 
the Anita Pass-It-On award for her outreach work in Perú, and Data 
Scientist at the Institute for Advanced Analytics.
  * Sandi Metz: Sandi Metz distilled 30+ years of experience into her 
book "Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby" (http://poodr.com), 
which reflects a deep bias towards practical solutions and working 
software. She worked for many years at Duke University but now 
independently consults and teaches.
  * Amy Hendrix: Amy Hendrix is a regular core contributor and community 
leader for WordPress. She works as a Web Engineer at 10up.com, teaches 
on web-dev-related matters for Girl Develop It, and messes around with 
swords.
  * Lenore Ramm: Development/tier-4 support/operations for Identity 
Management team at Duke. An artist with a bachelor's in Computer Science.
  * Caitlin C. Chestna