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Gabrielle Roth
Network Engineer, XO Communications

Gabrielle Roth is a Network Engineer, but is still a biology geek at heart. She lives in Portland, OR with a small but ambitious Monstera deliciosa, Mia. After OSCON 2007, she started Code-n-Splode as an effort to get more women involved in open source projects. When she’s not tinkering with networks or databases, she enjoys crashing her mountain bike & practicing parade formations with the PostgreSQL Army of Smurfs.

Sessions

2:35pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008

Running a Successful User Group

Fundamentals
Location: D138

Selena Deckelmann (PostgreSQL), Gabrielle Roth (XO Communications)

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If you're interested in starting, currently lead, or are interested in helping with an existing local users group, this talk is for you! Selena Deckelmann and Gabrielle Roth have started two successful user groups in the Portland area and will share their tips with you. Read more.