Open Source Bridge

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, Open Source Victoria and Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA). Donna was a board member of OSIA and ran 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 working on a Matrix matching the Victorian Essential learning standards with FOSS applications. Last year she delivered a keynote address at the K12 Open Minds conference in Indianapolis, USA and gave an Inkscape tutorial at linux.conf.au 2009 in Hobart, Australia.