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 is a Board member of Legion of Tech, which produces 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 is a web developer for musicians, artists and small businesses. She’s developed web applications for most of her career, first in C/C++, and later in Perl and Ruby. She has been a primary developer on elementalClinic, an open source patient management system for mental health clinics. Kirsten bikes all around Portland and volunteers for the annual non-profit Cycle Oregon bike ride. In 2004 she led the organization of the Zimbabwean Music Festival in Portland, and has served on the Zimfest board of directors.
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 runs a technology-consulting company called Buunabet, that helps companies and organizations use and deploy Open Source software. Jennifer is the Associate Systers Keeper for Systers – the largest and oldest international email community of women in computing, and was a mentor and organization administrator for the 2009 Systers’ Google Summer of Code Project. She is a long-time advocate for and user of Open Source Technology. Jennifer is an omnivore who loves to travel and voraciously consume books.
