Sponsors

Diamond Sponsors

  • Intel
  • Microsoft

Platinum Sponsors

  • Google
  • Sun Microsystems

Gold Sponsors

  • BT
  • IBM
  • Yahoo! Inc.
  • Zimbra

Silver Sponsors

  • Atlassian Software Systems
  • Disney
  • EnterpriseDB
  • Etelos
  • Ingres
  • JasperSoft
  • Kablink
  • Linagora
  • MindTouch
  • Mozilla Corporation
  • Novell, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
  • OpSource
  • RightScale
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • Tenth Planet
  • Ticketmaster
  • Voiceroute
  • White Oak Technologies, Inc.
  • XAware

Premier Media Partner

  • ZDNet

Sponsorship Opportunities

For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at the conference, contact Sharon Cordesse at scordesse@oreilly.com.

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Dawn Foster

Dawn Foster

Fast Wonder Consulting

Dawn M. Foster is currently the Director of Developer Relations at Jive Software, a collaboration software company in Portland, OR. She has more than 12 years of experience in technology and software with expertise in open source software, web 2.0, social media, blogging, and community building.

Dawn is the author of Fast Wonder: An Open Culture Blog and is currently working on a book for O’Reilly Media about the Art of Community. She organizes a monthly Portland BarCamp Meetup event for local technology employees, is an organizer for the Portland BarCamp event, and helps organize Ignite Portland. She is a co-founder and Chair of Legion of Tech, a non profit organization focused on providing free events by and for the Portland Technology Community.

Previously, Dawn worked at Compiere, Intel, and a Midwestern manufacturing company in positions ranging from Unix system administrator to market researcher to open source strategist. She holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Kent State University and a master’s degree in business administration from Ashland University.

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 Intel Corporation), Allison Randal (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Audrey Eschright (Elevated Rails), Sulamita Garcia (Intel), Nnenna Nwakanma (OSI, nnenna.org), Stormy Peters (OpenLogic), Silona Bonewald (League Of Technical Voters), Erinn Clark (.), Zaheda Bhorat (Google) Moderated by: Dawn Foster
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.
OSCON 2008