Schedule FrOSCon 2015

An internationally known community manager, speaker and author, Leslie Hawthorn has spent the past decade creating, cultivating and enabling open source communities. She created the world’s first initiative to involve pre-university students in open source software development, launched Google’s #2 Developer Blog, received an O’Reilly Open Source Award in 2010 and has given many great talks on all things open source, team culture and leveling up as a person along the way. She's a recent emigre to Europe and lives with her two cats and partner in Amsterdam. Follow her adventures on Twitter: @lhawthorn

An internationally known community manager, speaker and author, Leslie Hawthorn has spent the past decade creating, cultivating and enabling open source communities. She created the world’s first initiative to involve pre-university students in open source software development, launched Google’s #2 Developer Blog, received an O’Reilly Open Source Award in 2010 and has given many great talks on all things open source, team culture and leveling up as a person along the way.

Leslie has worked as Program Manager for Google Summer of Code, Community Manager for OSU’s Open Source Lab, Community Engineering Team Manager at Red Hat and most recently Director of Developer Relations at Elastic.

Whilst not doing things community on the job, Leslie is in the “save the world business” and works on side projects that make the world a better place. She has served as a Board Member for CASH Music and the Sahana Software Foundation and is currently on the Board of Directors of the Open Source Initiative and the Privly Foundation.

Leslie has lived in Amsterdam, The Netherlands since late 2013. She harkens back to her days at U.C. Berkeley now and again by indulging in an evening’s read of Medieval English Literature (but you can keep your Geoffrey Chaucer; William Langland FTW!). You can follow her adventures on Twitter @lhawthorn or her blog at http://hawthornlandings.org

Links

• Blog
• Twitter