Open Source Stories With Regina 💪🎙

Regina spoke on the topic of Recognizing Your Value as a Contributor in the open-source ecosystem. She currently serves as the Board Vice-President of the GNOME Foundation and as the Director of Community at GNOME Africa. https://www.linkedin.com/in/reginankenchor/

Dr. Dawn Foster works as the Director of Data Science for the @CHAOSSproj where she is also a board member and maintainer. She is co-chair of @CloudNativeFdn (CNCF) TAG Contributor Strategy and an @openuk_uk board member. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like @VMware and @intel with expertise in community building, strategy, open source, governance, metrics, and more. She has spoken at...

Stormy Peters is VP of Communities at GitHub . She leads the teams responsible for enabling online creators and open source communities on GitHub, including community product efforts, developer relations, education, and other strategic programs. Throughout her career, Stormy has been passionate about open source software and has worked to educate companies and communities on how open source softwa...

🌟 Emma has been building and contributing to #opensource software and open source communities for about as long as she can remember. Her role at Microsoft Open Source Programs Office (OSPO) building, empowering and activating #developers and their teams around open source is a combination of all the things she loves: #teaching , #learning , tinkering and bringing people together. Emma is also a v...

Guest Speaker Bio🤗: Joannah Nanjekye has a background as a Software and Aeronautical Engineer. Currently, a Python core developer and director of the Python Software Foundation doing research on garbage collection in Python with the IBM Center for Advanced studies - Atlantic, at the University of New Brunswick in Canada, but originally from Uganda, East Africa. She is also the author of Python 2...

Guest Speaker Bio🤗: Cheryl brings engineers together to build the future of infrastructure, especially cloud native and open source. As Senior Director at Arm , Cheryl leads ecosystem strategy to drive adoption across cloud, 5G and networking. She also founded the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) London meetup and runs events for 7000 architects, SREs and DevOps engineers monthly. Previou...