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OS//OS 2015 will bring software developers, open government champions, changemakers and innovators together from across sectors.

We will celebrate and share global best practices, openly discuss the big challenges head on and build a community of people leading the way in the open source ethos.

Expect inspiring keynote speakers, interactive workshops and plenty of opportunity for connection, participation & open knowledge-sharing with world-leading practitioners and the brightest local minds.

Thursday, April 16 • 13:30 - 14:00
My Journey to Common Knowledge

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In my path from architecture and government to full time open source developer at GitHub I've championed and benefitted from open source. In this talk I'll look into how privilege and community can both derail and strengthen open source.

Speakers
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Jessica Lord

Javascript developer, Atom team, GitHub
Jessica is a former urban designer turned open source developer by way of a fellowship at Code for America. She fell hard for open source and now works at GitHub and spends her free time working on open source projects to teach or enable others to get hacking.


Thursday April 16, 2015 13:30 - 14:00 NZST
1.1 Auditorium Michael Fowler Centre