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Attendees at September 04 Event

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Speakers & Demontrators at September 04 Event

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Please see the profiles on the page OrganisingGroup

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Speakers & Demontrators at September 04 Event

Michelle Murrain

Michelle is Vice President for Technology at Database Designs Associates and serves on the board of the nonprofit organization Aspiration, and has served on the steering Committee of NOSI (the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative). She has been involved in the nonprofit technology field for 7 years, and has been active in the effort to increase the use of Open Source software in the nonprofit sector, with advocacy and educational initiatives. She is the lead developer of the open source database development platform Xina, and has been a developer of database and web applications for 10 years.

Don de Silva

ABi Associates''' (speaking/demonstrating organisation)Don is an information technology specialist and environmentalist. He is experienced in managing and implementing exciting and innovative local, national and international ICT programmes in both industrialised and developing countries. He initiated the use of open source among ethnic minority NGOs and helped to established award winning web sites, based on open source for advocacy and campaigns, such http://www.blink.org.uk and http://healthweb.blink.org.uk . He has recently developed sites, based on open source, such as, http://www.abi.co.uk and http://www.faithinbusiness.org to promote enterprise and business. He is an adviser to http://uk.oneworld.net\\

Tea Kharitonashvili (Taya)

Taya works for Open Society - Georgia Foundation as an eRider (ICT Consultant). The Foundation has completed one project, "ICT for Civil Society", and is now planning to do another entitled "ICT and Capacity Building" which will focus on F/OSS implementation in Georgian NGOs. Taya has a real penguin-like 4-year-old daughter named Tiko.

Psand.net''' (speaking/demonstrating organisation)

Seeds for Change''' (speaking/demonstrating organisation)

Open Society, Georgia''' (attendee)

Initiative & Event Organisers

Speakers & Demontrators at September 04 Event

In addition to his work, Jono has been a part of the Linux community since 1998 and has worked for various free software projects including KDE, Kafka and founded Linux UK, the KDE Usability Study, KDE::Enterprise and currently works on various free software documents at his homepage at http://www.jonobacon.org/\\

OpenMute (speaking/demonstrating organisation)\\

Attendees at September 04 Event

Anthony Rangecroft

I came to the FOSS Initiative day to gain some insight into the voluntary and community sector as I've been working with SMEs and corporates.

I work with clients to design and try out more efficient ways of working, both procedural and technical. I use model based process re-engineering and prototyping on a Linux or Unix platform as this tends to be quick and reliable, relatively speaking of course ;-) AnthonyRangecroft at f2s.com 01737 223925

Event Organisation

The September event is being organised by a group of volunteers involved with the VCS both as freelancers, and through working for variety of organisations such as LASA, IT4Communities, Contact a Family, and Shelter.

Following informal discussions, and the involvement by several of the group in the Social Software initiative since 2002, it was felt that the time was right to organise an event demonstrating some Open Source projects, and gathering together interested stakeholders.

NOTE: Whilst many participants may share an interest in the wider issues relating to "Openness" in general - e.g. "Open Society", this event will be focused on Open Source as a potential benefit to Voluntary & Community Sector technology, although there is almost certainly going to be discussion around some of the non-technology issues on the day.

Participant Profiles

If you wish to add your profile to this page, send a short paragraph or URL to us (via ContactUs?) and it will be inserted, or edit this page yourself (copy the markup styles from another entry). It wouldbe helpful to show which stakeholder group you belong to (e.g. attendee, speaker, organiser, interested onlooker...):

Adrian De Luca (organiser) - Adrian has a research background and has been working as a research consultant for a number of organisations over the past couple of years looking at ICT issues for VCS organisations. He has recently taken up a post as Fundraising Research Manager at Shelter.
Dan McQuillan (organiser) - Dr. Dan McQuillan is the senior consultant in Lasa's Information Systems Team, specialising in the innovative application of technology to the needs of the non-profit sector. He has set up the Multikulti project, a pioneering multilingual website which delivers advice information in 12 languages, in collaboration with Bengali, Farsi & Urdu open source projects. Outside of work, Dan was a co-founder of the volunteer run 'Social Software' project which aims to bring the benefits of open source software to the voluntary & community sector.
Michelle Murrain (speaker) - Michelle is Vice President for Technology at Database Designs Associates and serves on the board of the nonprofit organization Aspiration, and has served on the steering Committee of NOSI (the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative). She has been involved in the nonprofit technology field for 7 years, and has been active in the effort to increase the use of Open Source software in the nonprofit sector, with advocacy and educational initiatives. She is the lead developer of the open source database development platform Xina, and has been a developer of database and web applications for 10 years.
Don de Silva ABi Associates (speaking/demonstrating organisation)Don is an information technology specialist and environmentalist. He is experienced in managing and implementing exciting and innovative local, national and international ICT programmes in both industrialised and developing countries. He initiated the use of open source among ethnic minority NGOs and helped to established award winning web sites, based on open source for advocacy and campaigns, such http://www.blink.org.uk and http://healthweb.blink.org.uk . He has recently developed sites, based on open source, such as, http://www.abi.co.uk and http://www.faithinbusiness.org to promote enterprise and business. He is an adviser to http://uk.oneworld.net
Alone in London (speaking/demonstrating: jamesholland@geocities.com)
Ryan Cartwright Contact a Family (speaking/demonstrating organisation) Ryan is IT Manager at Contact a Family where they have been using OSS at various levels for over three years. Although reluctant to call himself an expert, Ryan has realised that he has levels of experience in using OSS in a charity that are worth sharing. Contact a Family's particular success stories are in avoiding the use of Exchange and implementing a Web based secure database at a fraction of the proposed budget - when proprietary solutions came in at twice the same budget! Ryan is keen to demonstrate to others charities that OSS saves you both money and hair loss. Ryan also contributes on a personal level to the OSS community with software and documentation.
Comm-Tech (speaking/demonstrating organisation)
The Dasher Project (speaking/demonstrating organisation)
Hugh Barnard HughBarnard.org (speaking/demonstrating organisation) Hugh Barnard. 30 year career. Expert en informatique at the European Commission and Parliament in the 80's, worked with multilingual textual databases for legal affairs (CELEX) and Europe wide communications for European Parliament. Worked at Alcatel France on telecomms projects and Gemplus near Marseilles on smart card projects. Part of architecture group at Salomon Smith Barney (now Citigroup) with interest in web architectures, search, content management and applications in the 90s. Now freelance teacher and consultant doing work for Age Concern and small business. Perl developer since 1994, involved in two nsacent open source projects at present. Lives in Hackney since 1998.
Jono Bacon (speaker/demonstrator) ono Bacon is an established writer, developer, and musician. Jono has been working as a full-time writer and technology consultant/developer since 2000 and has worked for a variety of publishers and companies. They include Linux Format, Linux Pro, Linux Magazine, Linux User & Developer, Linux Journal, PC Plus, MacFormat?, MacTech?, Digital Home, Newsforge, Sitepoint, and ContentPeople?. Jono has also worked as a writer/consultant/developer with Trolltech, Apple, theKompany.com, University of Wolverhampton, Delta Institute, and others.

In addition to his work, Jono has been a part of the Linux community since 1998 and has worked for various free software projects including KDE, Kafka and founded Linux UK, the KDE Usability Study, KDE::Enterprise and currently works on various free software documents at his homepage at http://www.jonobacon.org/.

 
 LINC Project (speaking/demonstrating organisation) 

Multikulti (speaking/demonstrating organisation)
OpenMute (speaking/demonstrating organisation)
Open Society, Georgia (attendee) Tea Kharitonashvili (Taya) works for Open Society - Georgia Foundation as an eRider (ICT Consultant). The Foundation has completed one project, "ICT for Civil Society", and is now planning to do another entitled "ICT and Capacity Building" which will focus on F/OSS implementation in Georgian NGOs. Taya has a real penguin-like 4-year-old daughter named Tiko.
Psand.net (speaking/demonstrating organisation)
Seeds for Change (speaking/demonstrating organisation)

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