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Leslie Hawthorn
Community Action & Impact, Red Hat

Website | @lhawthorn

Leslie Hawthorn held various roles at Google before joining the Open Source Programs Office in March 2006. She manages the Google Summer of Code program and the Google Highly Open Participation Contest. Leslie also facilitates several open-source community hackathons at Google’s corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA. Proud to be known as Google’s geek herder, Leslie holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from U.C. Berkeley.

Sessions

4:30pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008

The Google Open Source Update

Emerging Topics
Location: Portland 251

Chris DiBona (Google, Inc.), Leslie Hawthorn (Red Hat)

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In this talk, DiBona and Hawthorn will review last year's open source activities from Google. This will feature an in-depth look at this year's Summer of Code, with over 1000 students taking part, and their high school program. Read more.