Kirrily Robert (also known as Skud) is an open source developer, advocate, and community manager. She has been active in the Linux and Perl communities and a number of other projects, and currently works on open data and open source projects for Freebase.
Speaking
Kirrily has spoken at a number of conferences on subjects including Perl, Linux, open data, community management, and women in open source.
- OSCON 2009
- Forking Encouraged: Folk programming, open source, and social software development
- Keynote: Standing Out in the Crowd, on women in open source
- OSCON 2008
- Velocity 2008
- OSDC 2007
- YAPC::NA 2001
- OSCON 2001
- YAPC::Europe 2001
- Linux.conf.au 2001
Technical
Kirrily is the author or maintainer of over a dozen Perl modules, including WWW::Automate, the foundation for the very popular WWW::Mechanize. She is the founder of Melbourne.pm and the originator of the Perl Survey.