Women at OSCON 2008

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OSCON 2008 occurred from July 21st to 25th 2008 in Portland, Oregon. This page documents women's participation in the conference, which was quite high relative to previous OSCONs.

[edit] Speakers

Audrey Eschright, Sulamita Garcia, and Selena Deckelmann were on the "Tools for local communities" panel

Full list here.

• Zaheda Bhorat - "Open Source and Standards" also a BOF on protecting open data
• Silona Bonewald - "Art of Community Lightning Talks"
• Danese Cooper - "Art of Community Lightning Talks", "Changing Education... Open Content, Open Hardware, Open Curricula", "Open Source / Open World", "Why Whinging Doesn't Work"
• Selena Deckelmann - "People for Geeks" tutorial, "Running a successful user group", "Tools for local communities"
• Audrey Eschright - "Tools for local communities"
• Sara Ford - "Toward a Stronger Open Source Ecosystem"
• Dawn Foster - "Art of Community Lightning Talks"
• Elizabeth Garbee - "An Introduction to Open Source Animation"
• Sulamita Garcia - "Tools for Local Communities"
• Leslie Hawthorn - "The Google Open Source Update"
• Emma Jane Hogbin - "Form an Orderly Queue, Ladies"
• Bobbi Kurshan - "Changing Education... Open Content, Open Hardware, Open Curricula"
• Jennifer Minor - "Handwave to Hardware: A Product Story Bit by Bit"
• Dawn Nafus - "Three Challenges"
• Nnenna Nwakanma - "Art of Community Lightning Talks", "Open Source / Open World"
• Akkana Peck - "GIMP Demystified"
• Stormy Peters - "OSS Census: Make Open Source Count!"
• Christine Peterson - "Open Source Physical Security: Can We Have Both Privacy and Safety?"
• Allison Randal (program chair) - "Welcome"
• Kirrily Robert - "People for Geeks" tutorial
• Gabrielle Roth - "Running a Successful User Group"
• Karen Sandler - "Organizing & Collecting Donations the Right Way: Corporate Structure for FOSS Projects"
• Alolita Sharma - "Open Source / Open World"
• Laura Thomson - "Write Beautiful Code (in PHP)"
• Beth Tibbitts - "Eclipse and the Parallel Tools Platform"
• Pia Waugh - "Heroes: Women in FOSS", "The Australian Open Source Industry & Community Census Report"
• Elaine Wherry - "Code is Easy, People are Hard: Developing Meebo’s Interview Process"

Proportion of women speakers: 26/311 or 8.36%

[edit] Attendees

• Anna Martelli Ravenscroft - OSCON program committee
• Inanna Ravenscroft
• Katherine Druckman

Proportion of women attendees: ??? (Can we get this from O'Reilly?)

[edit] Other coverage

• The women of OSCON 2008 at .51 blog