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Zaheda Bhorat

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Zaheda Bhorat has been successful in her career as a catalyst for change. In the early days of open source she managed the OpenOffice.org project and community and took the project from inception to a 1.0 release. With her experience of building communities of contributers, she created one of the first open source marketing projects with a global team of passionate volunteers to promote both open source and launch the office suite. Zaheda has a passion for applying open source processes beyond code, and has engaged contributors in localisation communities, education and adoption for Free and Open Source software, particularly in the developing/emerging markets. Zaheda is an open advocate in her role at Google as an Open Standards Programs Manager. She has over 15 years software industry experience, holds a BSc in Computer Science and lives in California.

Sessions

2:35pm Thursday, 07/24/2008

Art of Community Lightning Talks

Emerging Topics
Location: Portland 252

Dawn Foster (Fast Wonder Consulting), Danese Cooper (Open Source Initiative and REvolution Computing), Allison Randal (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Audrey Eschright (Elevated Rails), Sulamita Garcia (Intel), Nnenna Nwakanma (OSI, nnenna.org), Stormy Peters (GNOME Foundation), Silona Bonewald (League Of Technical Voters), Erinn Clark (.), Zaheda Bhorat (self) Moderated by: Dawn Foster

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Given the open source movement, the popularity of social networks, and new tools for collaboration, more people are looking for ways to build community. The Art of Community came about because we wanted to write a book about community using a wiki so that a community could grow around the book. A different author leads each chapter, and you will hear from many of them during these lightning talks. Read more.

10:45am Friday, 07/25/2008

Open Source and Standards

Web Applications
Location: D137

Joe Gregorio (Google), Zaheda Bhorat (self) Moderated by: Joe Gregorio

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The mantra at the IETF is rough consensus and running code. But how much does that running code, particularly open source running code, contribute to a good standard? Read more.