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Audrey Eschright

Elevated Rails

Audrey is a Ruby developer, community organizer, and crafty geek based in Portland, OR. She works for Elevated Rails, a software consultancy. She is also a board member for Legion of Tech, an umbrella organization for several local technology events, and an active member of the Portland Ruby Brigade, and Dorkbot PDX.

Her other activities include knitting, photography, and geeking out on the meaning of location in a highly-networked world.

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Sessions

5:20pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008

Tools for Local Communities

People
Location: E146

Audrey Eschright (Elevated Rails), Selena Deckelmann (PostgreSQL Project), Michael Dexter (The BSD Fund), Sulamita Garcia (Intel) Moderated by: Audrey Eschright

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The open source movement is global, but interesting and exciting things happen at the local scale too. In this panel, community organizers will talk about the social and technological tools they use to to gather, collaborate, and learn. Read more.

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.