Donna Benjamin
Executive Director, Creative Contingencies

As a speaker at OSCON I believe we should all strive to create a fun, educational, enjoyable and harassment-free conference experience for everyone.

I’m pleased to say Tim O’Reilly thinks so too!

If you are being harassed, or witness harassment please report it to venue security, the police, the conference organisers or a trusted friend. You do not have to put up with it.

For more detail on what a code of conduct which includes an anti-harassment policy should contain, please review the geekfeminism wiki conference anti-harassment policy template

Donna Benjamin is the Executive Director of Creative Contingencies, an Australian company specialising in customised web services, research and event management. She is a passionate advocate of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) solutions for small business and education.

Donna has served as President of Linux Users of Victoria and as a board member of Open Source Industry Australia. She was conference director of Australia’s largest free and open source conference, linux.conf.au held in Melbourne in 2008. Donna remains an active member of LinuxChix, Linux Australia and Drupal Melbourne and she is proud to be on the advisory council for the Ada Initiative.

Donna was profiled by Jacinta Richardson, Kathy Reid and Roland Gesthuizen for Ada Lovelace day and featured in Delimiter’s Friday Five and Tech Stream’s special on Women in Technology on Radio Australia.

• Professional experience: linkedin.com/in/donnabenjamin
• Business blog: cc.com.au/donna
• Personal blog: kattekrab.net
• Education blog: edtechagogy.blogspot.com/