Speaker Feature: Karen Sandler, Marco Ostini, Joel Stanley

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Submitted on 2014-11-30 18:32

Karen Sandler

Karen Sandler

The Low Down on IRS status for Free and Open Source Software Non-profits in the US.

11:35am Thursday 15th January 2015

Karen M. Sandler is the Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy. She is known for her advocacy for free software, particularly in relation to the software on medical devices. Prior to joining Conservancy, she was Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation where she has recently been elected to the Board of Directors. Before that, she was General Counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center.

Karen co-organizes the award winning GNOME Outreach Program for Women and is an advisor to the Ada Initiative. She is also pro bono General Counsel to QuestionCopyright.Org. Karen is a recipient of the O'Reilly Open Source Award and co-host of the oggcast, Free as in Freedom.

For more information on Karen and her presentation, see here.


Marco Ostini

Marco

The Imperfect Penguin

10:40am Wednesday 14th January 2015

Marco is an Information Security Analyst for AusCERT, and has been an active member of various open source groups and endeavours. Since the early '90s Marco has been hands-on with Linux, deploying it along with other FOSS goodness in infrastructure within one of Australia's larger universities. When it comes to the desktop Marco attempts to be slightly distro agnostic always using both a dpkg and rpm based distro in tandem.

Marco was on the team that hosted LCA in Brisbane - a team that will always be hero's in our minds!

For more information on Marco and his presentation, see here. You can follow him as @Marcoostini and don’t forget to mention #lca2015.


Joel Stanley

FPGA killed the video capture star

Joel Stanley

3:40pm Wednesday 14th January 2015

Joel is an embedded hardware hacker with a background in Electrical Engineering. His fascination with FPGAs started when he created a FPGA based quad-core Gameboy emulator. Since then he has been seen flying High Altitude Balloons with Project Horus, hacking on Android powered software defined radios, and working on the FPGA parts of timsvideos as a Summer of Code mentor.

While not hacking on his hobbies, he works on the Linux Kernel at IBM OzLabs.

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