Sumana Harihareswara is the Engineering Community Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. She provides management consulting for software development in tech and open source. She is also a stand-up comedian.

Women's groups and eventsEdit

Harihareswara is on the Advisory Board for the Ada Initiative. She blogs for Geek Feminism. She was instrumental in developing the friendly space policy for the Wikimedia Foundation.

Conference talksEdit

• Keynote Speaker, "Be Bold: An Origin Story," Open Source Bridge 2012
• "Learn Tech Management In 45 Minutes," Open Source Bridge 2011
• "How to get what you want from MediaWiki developers," Wikimania 2011
• "The Second Step: HOWTO encourage open source work at for-profits," Open Source Bridge 2010

Open source communityEdit

Sumana edited and wrote for the GNOME Journal and was Release Marketing Manager for the GNOME 3.0 release. She also worked as project manager for open source software company Collabora.

Science fiction communityEdit

Sumana co-edited the science fiction anthology "Thoughtcrime Experiments."

External linksEdit

• Official website
• Sumana Harihareswara on Twitter: @brainwave