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.
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"
- 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"
- Skud - "People for Geeks" tutorial
- 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%
Attendees[]
- Anna Martelli Ravenscroft - OSCON program committee
- Inanna Ravenscroft
- Katherine Druckman
Proportion of women attendees: ??? (Can we get this from O'Reilly?)
Other coverage[]
- The women of OSCON 2008 at .51 blog