Donna Benjamin

Drupal8 outta the box

3:40pm Thursday 15th January 2015

Donna Benjamin has a collection of brightly coloured open source hats.

She currently chairs the Drupal community working group, sits on the board of the Drupal Association, and works as community engagement director with PreviousNext. She's also been an advisor to councils of Linux Australia, and was conference director for LCA2008 in Melbourne. Donna has also served as President of Linux Users of Victoria, and as a Director of Open Source Industry Australia.

Donna Benjamin is also our Community Leadership Summit Organiser.

For more information on Donna and her presentation, see here. You can follow her as @kattekrab and don’t forget to mention #lca2015.

Dave Chinner

Programming Considered Harmful

4:35pm Thursday 15th January 2015

Dave is the current XFS maintainer. He is currently employeed by Red Hat and spends most of his time developing new filesystem and storage features. He has been a XFS developer since 2004, and worked on the linux kernel since 2005. He has worked on machines of all sizes - from 2000 CPU machines used in the HPC environment to tiny, highly networked embedded systems in the industrial control industry.

In his spare time, Dave builds and races cars and tries to teach his dogs not to bark at the postman....

For more information on Dave and his presentation, see here.

Paul Mackerras

KVM on IBM POWER8 servers

1:20pm Wednesday 14th January 2015

Paul Mackerras works in IBM's Linux Technology Center, where he leads a group of people whose mission is to bring open-source virtualization to IBM's Power systems. Previously he was the Linux kernel maintainer for the PowerPC architecture. He is also the author of the "gitk" commit visualization tool and the maintainer of the PPP package.

For more information on Paul and his presentation, see here.