Mary Gardiner is the Director of Operations and Research at the Ada Initiative. She is also a computer programmer and computer science postgraduate student.

Contents 1 Women's groups and events 2 Conference talks 3 Open source community 4 External links

Women's groups and eventsEdit

Mary is the founder of the LinuxChix and Haecksen miniconferences and of both AussieChix, the Australia-wide LinuxChix chapter, and OWOOT, the expansion of AussieChix+NZChix into general open technology.

Conference talksEdit

Mary has given many user group and conference talks. Major talks include:

• keynote presentation at Wikimania 2012, "Fostering diversity: not a boring chore, a critical opportunity"
• presentation with Valerie Aurora at linux.conf.au, January 2012 (video)
• keynote presentation at PyCon AU, August 2011 (video)
• invited speaker presentation at Girl Geek Dinner Sydney, June 2011 (video)

Other talks include LinuxChix and Haecksen miniconferences (2012, 2009), OSDC (2008, 2006).

Open source communityEdit

Mary has been involved in Open Source community, particularly in Australia, for many years, including:

• committee member of Linux Australia in the first half of 2011

• (co) chair of the linux.conf.au program, 2008–2010 and 2013

• reviewer for linux.conf.au and PyCon US

• former lead documentation author for the Twisted project

Her contribution to the Australian open source community was recognised in 2012 with the Rusty Wrench Award.

External links Edit

• Mary's professional home page
• Mary's personal home page
• Podcast about Gardiner's Rusty Wrench
• Techworld interview with Gardiner and co-founder
• Mary's keynote at PyCon AU 2011 (captioned)
• Linux Australia Council membership
• Linux.conf.au 2008 program co-chair
• Ada Initiative press coverage archive