kattekrab
Donna Benjamin is the Executive Director of Creative Contingencies, an Australian company specialising in customised web services, research and event management. In addition to this Donna is currently President of Linux Users of Victoria and an active member of LinuxChix, Drupal Melbourne, Open Source Victoria and Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA). Donna was a board member of OSIA and served as director for 2006-2008 and currently organises the Melbourne OSIA gatherings. She was the lead organiser for Australia’s largest free and open source conference, linux.conf.au in Melbourne in 2008.
Donna is a passionate advocate of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) solutions for small business and education and is currently writing a book about Inkscape, an open source vector graphic drawing application. In 2008 she delivered a keynote address at the K12 Open Minds conference in Indianapolis, USA and the Sakai conference in Melbourne and delivered an Inkscape tutorial at linux.conf.au 2009 in Hobart, Australia. In 2010, Donna is assisting with the Libre Graphics Day miniconf, and leading the development of a conference management system in Drupal for the Australian computers in education conference taking place in Melbourne in April.
Donna was profiled by Jacinta Richardson and Roland Gesthuizen for the inaugural Ada Lovelace day celebrating women in technology.
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kattekrab is presenting:
Lightning Talks / Ignite Talks
Action-packed, info-filled, mind-bending fun. Lightning talks are super-short presentations.
We'll divide our session of 45 minutes by the number of people who sign up to give a Lightning Talk, and that's how many minutes short each talk will be. That includes set up time, so if you have slides it's a good idea to get them on to the presentation laptop in advance to maximise your speaking time.
But what can you possibly cover in 3-5 minutes? Quite a lot. But the point is to cover the basics, demonstrate one key idea, pose a question, or promote a project or event.
Training Wheels - Learning and Teaching Drupal
Come along to discuss the state of Drupal training.
Let's explore questions like:
- Who needs training? users? designers? developers? usability experts? security specialists? sys-admins?
- What does best practice look like?
- When will the Acquia / Drupal Association certification program be ready?
- Where are the resources? Can we share them? Can we build on them?
- How can we work together to train our users and colleagues, and extend our own skills and knowledge?
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