Conference Chairs
Selena Deckelmann is an enthusiastic open source advocate and PostgreSQL specialist. Her work ranges from the highly local–organizing the Portland PostgreSQL User Group–to planning national conferences, and international outreach to other user groups and events. She was a founding board member of Legion of Tech, a non-profit focused on connecting Portlanders through technology. She has presented at Linux Conf.AU, OSCON and the Linux Plumbers Conference on open source databases, running user groups and measuring filesystem performance.
Eric Day currently works on the Drizzle and Gearman projects, and has been writing high-performance, multi-threaded servers and databases for most of his career. Most of his work has been done in clustered and distributed environments, always with an emphasis on efficiency and security. Eric keeps active in the open source community through speaking at conferences and user groups, as well as helping organize camps and conferences in Portland, OR. When not hacking on code, he can be found playing hockey, biking, or enjoying a good vegan meal.
Volunteer Coordination and Project Management
Christie Koehler is a web developer and open source enthusiast who is an active participant in the Portland tech community. In addition to co-leading Code ‘n’ Splode, a user group for women in technology, Christie has volunteered for a number of Legion of Tech events such as IgnitePortland and BarCamp. Christie is a practicing Zen Buddhist with the Zen Community of Oregon. When not programming, you can find her practicing yoga, making kick-ass vegan cookies, hiking around the Gorge, working on her house or trying to entertain her four cats.
Technology
Igal Koshevoy is a freelance business-technology consultant that develops sophisticated applications using Ruby, Python, Java and UNIX. He’s an open source contributor and community organizer supporting the Calagator open source community calendar platform, Portland Ruby Brigade user group (pdxruby), Portland Functional Study Group (pdxfunc), WhereCampPDX geospatial conference, Ignite Portland, Legion of Tech, OpenConferenceWare conference platform, and the AutomateIt server configuration management system.
Kirsten Comandich
Marketing
Reid Beels writes code, dyes pixels by hand, takes photos, and thinks a lot about how things ought to work. He’s rather fond of bringing enthusiastic, awesome, people together to share knowledge and solve problems.
Sherri Montgomery started out her tech career as a *nix systems administrator and now spends her work days as a systems analyst who helps clients identify processes clearly, writes functional requirements & use cases, and manages projects from development to implementation. She is a Yoga Alliance certified teacher and enjoys bringing yoga classes to tech events. Sherri also writes, makes awesome vegan food, gardens, hikes, and is an active member of the Zen Community of Oregon.
Logistics
Jennifer Redman
