About

The best way to contact Dawn Foster is by emailing dawn@fastwonder.com

Bio: Dawn Foster

Community Manager, Event Organizer, Blogger, RSS Junkie and Technology Enthusiast.

Dawn Foster works in Intel’s Open Source Technology Center and is Intel’s Community Manager for the open source MeeGo project. Dawn has more than 14 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in strategic planning, management, community building, community management, open source software, market research, social media, and RSS. She is passionate about bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events. She has experience building new communities, and managing existing communities with a particular emphasis on developer and open source communities. In addition to working at Intel, Dawn was an online community consultant, and she has worked at Jive Software, Compiere, and a Midwestern manufacturing company in positions ranging from Unix system administrator to market researcher to community manager to open source strategist.

While at Jive Software, she was responsible for building a new developer community for Jive’s new Clearspace product line and managing the existing Ignite Realtime open source community. She is a co-founder and board member of Legion of Tech, a non-profit chartered with organizing free events for the Portland, Oregon technology community. As part of her work with Legion of Tech, Dawn is an organizer for Portland BarCamp, Ignite Portland and other events. Dawn holds an MBA from Ashland University and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Kent State University. Dawn regularly blogs about online communities as the author of the Fast Wonder Blog, and she blogs for GigaOM’s WebWorkerDaily. She is the author of the book, Companies and Communities: Participating without being sleazy.

You can read Dawn’s Fast Wonder Blog to learn more about her ideas, and you can find links to Dawn’s many projects and accomplishments below. 

Projects and Accomplishments

Current Focus on MeeGo Community Management at Intel

  • MeeGo is an open source, Linux project focused on netbooks/entry-level desktops, handheld computing and communications devices, in-vehicle infotainment devices, connected TVs, and media phones. The MeeGo community includes developers who make all of this work along with enthusiastic users who help with testing and other community tasks.

Book: Companies and Communities: Participating without being sleazy

Places Dawn Blogs

Current Projects

More About Dawn

Upcoming and Past Speaking engagements

Quotes and Mentions

Past Projects and Older Blogs

The History of Fast Wonder

The Fast Wonder blog is an evolution of Dawn’s Open Culture blog originally started in November 2005. A number of other “Open Culture” blogs gradually appeared over the years, and the time came to come up with a more original name and a real logo for this blog. If you think about it long enough, you will understand why Dawn Foster chose the name “Fast Wonder” for her company and blog. A big thank you to Stephen Way for designing the Fast Wonder logo.

Contact Information

The best way to contact Fast Wonder:
dawn@fastwonder.com

Fast Wonder LLC
4110 SE Hawthorne #131
Portland, OR 97214
503-702-7223


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