lhawthorn

An internationally known open source advocate, Leslie Hawthorn brings more than 10 years experience in high tech project management, marketing and public relations to her role as Open Source Outreach Manager at Oregon State University's Open Source Lab. She also serves as an advisor to the Humanitarian FOSS Project and recently served as a Program Co-Chair for the Grace Hopper Conference's first ever track on Open Source Software.

Leslie previously worked as a Program Manager for Google’s Open Source Programs Office, where she was responsible for the company’s FOSS outreach efforts, most notably the Google Summer of Code program and Google Highly Open Participation contest (now known Google Code-in). You can follow her adventures on identi.ca (@lh) or Twitter (@lhawthorn) or read her personal blog at http://hawthornlandings.org.