FOSDEM 2017 - Dawn Foster

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She is currently living in London to pursue a PhD at the University of Greenwich.</p> <p>Dawn is a part-time consultant for The Scale Factory where she helps clients with community building and open source strategy. Prior to moving to London, she spent 20 years working at companies like Puppet Labs, Intel, Jive Software, and more. She has expertise in community building, open source software, metrics, and more. She is passionate about bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events along with analyzing the data associated with participation in developer and open source communities. She has spoken at dozens of industry events, including many Linux Foundation events, OSCON, SXSW, FOSDEM and more.</p> <br style="clear: both;"/> <h3>Events</h3> <table class="table table-striped table-bordered table-condensed"> <thead> <tr> <th>Title</th> <th>Day</th> <th>Room</th> <th>Track</th> <th>Start</th> <th>End</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td><a href="/2017/schedule/event/config_management_community/">Config Management Community<br/><i>Awesome, Awful or Apathetic?</i></a></td> <td><a href="/2017/schedule/day/saturday/">Saturday</a></td> <td><a href="/2017/schedule/room/ua2220_guillissen/">UA2.220 (Guillissen)</a></td> <td><a href="/2017/schedule/track/config_management/">Config management</a></td> <td><a class="value-title" title="2017-02-04T18:00:00+01:00" href="/2017/schedule/day/saturday/#1800">18:00</a></td> <td><a class="value-title" title="2017-02-04T18:50:00+01:00" href="/2017/schedule/day/saturday/#1850">18:50</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/2017/schedule/event/community_visualize_your_code_repos_and_more_with_gource/">Visualize Your Code Repos and More with Gource</a></td> <td><a href="/2017/schedule/day/sunday/">Sunday</a></td> <td><a href="/2017/schedule/room/ud2119_moved_from_aw1124/">UD2.119 (Moved from AW1.124)</a></td> <td><a href="/2017/schedule/track/community/">Community</a></td> <td><a class="value-title" title="2017-02-05T15:25:00+01:00" href="/2017/schedule/day/sunday/#1525">15:25</a></td> <td><a class="value-title" title="2017-02-05T16:00:00+01:00" href="/2017/schedule/day/sunday/#1600">16:00</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div>  <div id="footer"> <div class="footer-holder"> <div class="panel-block"> <div class="panel-column"> <h3>FOSDEM</h3> <ul class="panel"> <li class="home"><a accesskey="1" href="/2017/">Home</a></li> <li><a accesskey="2" href="/2017/news/">News</a></li> <li><a href="/2017/about/">About</a></li> <li><a href="/2017/about/sponsors/">Sponsors</a></li> <li><a href="/2017/support/donate/">Donate</a></li> <li><a accesskey="5" href="/2017/faq/">FAQ</a></li> <li><a href="/2017/archives/">Archives</a></li> </ul> </div>  <div class="panel-column"> <h3>This year</h3> <ul class="panel"> <li><a accesskey="s" href="/2017/schedule/">Schedule</a></li> <li><a href="/2017/stands/">Stands</a></li> <li><a href="/2017/certification/">Certification exams</a></li> <li><a href="/2017/keysigning/">Keysigning</a></li> <li><a href="/2017/beerevent/">Friday Beer Event</a></li> <li><a href="/2017/fringe/">Fringe</a></li> </ul> </div>  <div class="panel-column"> <h3>Practical information</h3> <ul class="panel"> <li><a href="/2017/practical/transportation/">Getting there</a></li> <li><a href="/2017/practical/accessibility/">Accessibility</a></li> <li><a href="/2017/practical/accommodation/">Accommodation</a></li> <li><a href="/2017/practical/conduct/">Code of Conduct</a></li> <li><a href="/2017/practical/services/">During the Event</a></li> <li><a href="/2017/practical/jobcorner/">Job Corner</a></li> </ul> </div>  <div class="panel-column"> <h3>Media and press</h3> <ul class="panel"> <li><a href="/2017/interviews/">Interviews</a></li> <li><a href="http://video.fosdem.org/">Video recordings</a></li> <li><a href="/2017/social/">Social media</a></li> <li><a href="/2017/support/promote/">Promote</a></li> </ul> </div>  </div>  <div class="company-info"> <div class="company-info-logo"></div> <strong class="logo-small"><a href="/2017/schedule/">FOSDEM17</a></strong> <p>Brussels <span>/</span> <strong>4 & 5 February 2017</strong></p> </div> <div class="license-info"> <div class="license-info-logo"></div> This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium Licence.<br/> To view a copy of this licence, visit <a class="quiet" rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/be/deed.en">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/be/deed.en</a><br/> or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA. </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>

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