Emma Irwin's Open Source Journey 🚀 (Episode #3)

Recognizing your value as a contributor in the open-source ecosystem: An Interview with Regina Nkenchor.

Regina spoke on the topic of Recognizing Your Value as a Contributor in the open-source ecosystem. She currently serves as the Board Vice-President of the GNOME Foundation and as the Director of Community at GNOME Africa. https://www.linkedin.com/in/reginankenchor/

Exploring Dr. Dawn's Open Source Journey with Regina – An Open Conversation (Episode #5)

Dr. Dawn Foster works as the Director of Data Science for the @CHAOSSproj [https://twitter.com/CHAOSSproj] where she is also a board member and maintainer. She is co-chair of @CloudNativeFdn [https://twitter.com/CloudNativeFdn] (CNCF) TAG Contributor Strategy and an @openuk_uk [https://twitter.com/openuk_uk] board member. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like @VMware [https://twitter.com/VMware] and @intel [https://twitter.com/intel] with expertise in community building, strategy, open source, governance, metrics, and more. She has spoken at over 100 industry events and has a PhD, MBA, and BS in computer science. In her spare time she enjoys reading science fiction, running, and traveling.

Unraveling Stormy Peters' Open Source Journey and Inspiration 🚀 (Episode #4)

Stormy Peters is VP of Communities at GitHub [https://www.linkedin.com/company/github/]. She leads the teams responsible for enabling online creators and open source communities on GitHub, including community product efforts, developer relations, education, and other strategic programs. Throughout her career, Stormy has been passionate about open source software and has worked to educate companies and communities on how open source software is changing the industry. Prior to GitHub [https://www.linkedin.com/company/github/], Stormy was the Director of the Open Source Programs Office at Microsoft [https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft/], enabling 30,000+ developers to consume and contribute to open source effectively. She has initiated programs such as Microsoft’s FOSS Fund and the Azure Credits for Open Source projects. Stormy has also held leadership positions working with the open source community at Mozilla [https://www.linkedin.com/company/mozilla-corporation/], Red Hat [https://www.linkedin.com/company/red-hat/], the GNOME Foundation [https://www.linkedin.com/company/gnome-foundation/], OpenLogic, and others.

Emma Irwin's Open Source Journey 🚀 (Episode #3)

🌟 Emma has been building and contributing to #opensource [https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=opensource&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7061631837860679681] software and open source communities for about as long as she can remember. Her role at Microsoft [https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft/] Open Source Programs Office (OSPO) building, empowering and activating #developers [https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=developers&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7061631837860679681] and their teams around open source is a combination of all the things she loves: #teaching [https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=teaching&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7061631837860679681], #learning [https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=learning&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7061631837860679681], tinkering and bringing people together. Emma is also a volunteer member of @canada Canada's Open Government Stakeholder Forum https://lnkd.in/erH6DxGG [https://lnkd.in/erH6DxGG] which provides input on Canada's Open Government strategy. Previous to Microsoft [https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft/], she spent a number of years working on Open Innovation at Mozilla [https://www.linkedin.com/company/mozilla-corporation/]. Emma lives in Sooke, BC with her family which includes two dogs, and one cat. 🤗

An Interview with Joannah Nanjekye (Episode #2)

Guest Speaker Bio🤗: Joannah Nanjekye has a background as a Software and Aeronautical Engineer. Currently, a Python core developer and director of the Python Software Foundation doing research on garbage collection in Python with the IBM Center for Advanced studies - Atlantic, at the University of New Brunswick in Canada, but originally from Uganda, East Africa. She is also the author of Python 2 and 3 compatibility, a book published by Apress.