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Sulamita Garcia
Latin America Open Source Strategist, Intel

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Sulamita Garcia is Latin America Open Source Strategist at Intel. She is responsible for creating and maintaining a comprehensive LAR Linux strategy that takes into account all aspects of the Linux environment, including key elements around the community, government, standards, and vendors. She holds major Linux certifications: LPI level 2 and RHCE. After several years ahead Linuxchix Brazil, she was elected co-coordinator of Linuxchix International. She has worked for several years in Linux integration, security and development, and wrote several technical papers about high availability, load balancing and Slackware.

Sessions

5:20pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008

Tools for Local Communities

People
Location: E146

Audrey Eschright (Elevated Code / Stumptown Syndicate), Selena Deckelmann (PostgreSQL), Michael Dexter (The BSD Fund), Sulamita Garcia (Intel)

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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 (Intel), Danese Cooper (Wikimedia Foundation and Open Source Initiative), Allison Randal (DrugDev, Inc.), Audrey Eschright (Elevated Code / Stumptown Syndicate), Sulamita Garcia (Intel), Nnenna Nwakanma (NNENNA.ORG), Stormy Peters (GNOME Foundation), Silona Bonewald (SLC), Erinn Clark (.), Zaheda Bhorat (Open Source/Standards)

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.