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Leslie Hawthorn
Community Action & Impact, Red Hat

Website | @lhawthorn | Attendee Directory Profile

Leslie Hawthorn is a Program Manager for Google’s Open Source Programs Office, where she’s the Community Manager for the Google Summer of Code program. She also conceived and managed the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, the world’s first global initiative to get pre-university students involved in all aspects of Open Source software development. Leslie serves on the Advisory Board of the GNOME Foundation and the Open Source Business Resource. She also serves on the Oregon State School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Industrial Advisory Board and the Steering Committee for the Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Project.

Prior to joining Google, Leslie got her feet wet in Silicon Valley high tech at a small communications semiconductor startup, where she worked in Marketing and Public Relations. She holds a Honors B.A. in English Language and Literature from U.C. Berkeley and her personal website is http://www.hawthornlandings.org or you can find her on identi.ca (@lh) and Twitter (@lhawthorn).

Sessions

11:35am Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Getting Started in Free and Open Source

Fundamentals, People
Location: Ballroom A1

Cat Allman (Google), Leslie Hawthorn (Red Hat)

Average rating:

(3.14, 7 ratings)

Leslie Hawthorn and I co-present this talk for beginners who are interested to getting involved but don't know where or how to start. We cover the basics of: -why you might want to get involved -what you can get out of participating -more than coding is needed -how to chose a project -how to get started -etiquette of lists and other communication -dos and don't of joining a community Read more.

11:35am Thursday, 07/23/2009

The Google Open Source Update

Business, Emerging Topics, Linux, Mobile
Location: Exhibit Hall 3

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

Average rating:

(3.67, 9 ratings)

In this talk, Chris DiBona will bring the audience up to date on recent Google activities in open source. We will specifically cover advances in Android’s open source deployment infrastructure, including the Gerrit and Repo tools, and the directions those tools are taking. Read more.

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