Changes: Sumana Harihareswara

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Sumana Harihareswara is the Senior Technical Writer at the Wikimedia Foundation. She provides community management, teaching, and writing for software development in tech and open source. She is also a stand-up comedian.

Women's groups and events

Harihareswara is on the Board of Directors for the Ada Initiative. She blogs for Geek Feminism. She was instrumental in developing the friendly space policy for the Wikimedia Foundation. She is the career development advisor for the Outreach Program for Women internships.

Conference talks

Keynote Speaker, "Hospitality, Jerks, and What I Learned", Wiki Conference USA 2014
Keynote Speaker, "User Experience is a Social Justice Issue", code4lib 2014
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
others

Open source community

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. She has led or mentored at OpenHatch events. She was previously Engineering Community Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation, and has contributed to several other free software projects (such as Miro and AltLaw).

Science fiction community

Sumana co-edited the science fiction anthology "Thoughtcrime Experiments" and has been a panellist at WisCon.

External links

Official website
Sumana Harihareswara on Twitter: @brainwane

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-'''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.
+'''Sumana Harihareswara''' is the Senior Technical Writer at the [[Wikimedia Foundation]]. She provides community management, teaching, and writing for software development in tech and open source. She is also a stand-up comedian.
 ==Women's groups and events==
-Harihareswara is on the Advisory Board for the [[Ada Initiative]]. She blogs for [[Geek Feminism blog|Geek Feminism]]. She was instrumental in developing the [[Conference anti-harassment/Policy|friendly space policy]] for the Wikimedia Foundation.
+Harihareswara is on the Board of Directors for the [[Ada Initiative]]. She blogs for [[Geek Feminism blog|Geek Feminism]]. She was instrumental in developing the [[Conference anti-harassment/Policy|friendly space policy]] for the Wikimedia Foundation. She is the career development advisor for the [[Outreach Program for Women]] internships.
 ==Conference talks==
+*Keynote Speaker, "[http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Sumana_Harihareswara_keynote Hospitality, Jerks, and What I Learned]", Wiki Conference USA 2014
+*Keynote Speaker, "[http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2014_Keynote_by_Sumana_Harihareswara User Experience is a Social Justice Issue]", code4lib 2014
 *Keynote Speaker, "[http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/926 Be Bold: An Origin Story]," Open Source Bridge 2012
 *"[http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/609 Learn Tech Management In 45 Minutes]," Open Source Bridge 2011
 *"How to get what you want from MediaWiki developers," Wikimania 2011
 *"[http://opensourcebridge.org/wiki/2010/The_Second_Step:_HOWTO_encourage_open_source_work_at_for-profits The Second Step: HOWTO encourage open source work at for-profits]," Open Source Bridge 2010
+*[http://www.harihareswara.net/talks.html others]
 ==Open source community==
-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]].
+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]]. She has led or mentored at [[OpenHatch]] events. She was previously Engineering Community Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation, and has contributed to several other free software projects (such as Miro and AltLaw).
 ==Science fiction community==
-Sumana co-edited the science fiction anthology "Thoughtcrime Experiments."
+Sumana co-edited the science fiction anthology "Thoughtcrime Experiments" and has been a panellist at [[WisCon]].
 ==External links==
 *[http://www.harihareswara.net/ Official website]
-*Sumana Harihareswara on Twitter: @[https://twitter.com/brainwane brainwave]
+*Sumana Harihareswara on Twitter: @[https://twitter.com/brainwane brainwane]