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Amal Roumi - MSWL URJC Famous Women play a role in FLOSS project 1 Sunday, October 20, 13

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Page 1: Famous women play a role in open source

Amal Roumi - MSWL URJC

Famous Women play a role in FLOSS project

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Elizabeth KrumbachDebian Systems Administrator at technology services provider LinuxForce.

Member of the Ubuntu Americas Membership Board.

First woman to be elected to the Ubuntu Community Council.

She is also the coordinator, primary contact and website admin for Philadelphia area Linux Users Group (PLUG)

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Mitchell Baker

Leader of the Mozilla Project, responsible for organizing and motivating a massive, worldwide.

Member of OSAF's Board of Directors, is also responsible for community topics at OSAF

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Robyn Bergeron

First woman to lead a major Linux distro Fedora Project Leader as of 2012.

Marketing team leader

Cloud SIG wrangler

Ambassador, traveling to and speaking at many events where Fedora has a presence

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Jessica McKellarDirector for the Python Software Foundation and an organizer for Boston Python.

She received the O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013 for her contributions to the Python community.

Maintainer for Twisted, an asynchronous networking platform written in Python

Maintainer for OpenHatch, an open source involvement engine

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