I am currently available to speak at conferences. You can contact me via email (dawn@fastwonder.com) for more information.

Information about my presentations at academic conferences can be found on the Academic page.

If you want to watch a video of my Lessons about Community from Science Fiction talk, the version from Monki Gras in London, February 2014 is my favorite. For the busy or ADD types, you might like the 5 minute Ignite version from July 2014 at OSCON. Additional videos are available below in the Video and Audio Recordings section below.

A sample of some of my presentations, many are on on SlideShare:

• Open Source is not Fairy Dust – joint talk with Suzanne Ambiel at The Linux Foundation Member Summit in Napa, CA in November 2021.
• Panel Discussion: Metrics for Understanding Project Health at The Linux Foundation Member Summit in Napa, CA in November 2021.
• Navigating Open Source Project Risk at All Things Open in Raleigh in October 2021 (video).
• Measuring the Health of Your CNCF Project: Going Beyond Stars and Forks at KubeCon in Los Angeles in October 2021 (video).
• Good Governance Practices for Healthy Open Source Projects at OSPOCon Europe in London in October 2021 (video).
• Navigating Open Source Risk: A Strategic Approach at the Open Source Strategy Forum in London in October 2021 (video).
• Measuring Project Health at VMware at CHAOSScon in Seattle in September 2021.
• Navigating Open Source Project Risk at OSPOCon NA in Seattle in September 2021 (video).
• Panel Discussion – A New Era: Emerging and Evolving OSPOs at OSSummit NA in Seattle in September 2021 (video).
• Getting Over Your Imposter Syndrome to Become a Conference Speaker at OSSummit NA in Seattle in September 2021 (video).
• Navigating Open Source Risk at Open Source Lisbon in June 2021 (video).
• Evaluating Business Risk for Open Source Cloud Native Projects at KubeCon EU in May 2021 (video).
• Collaborative Leadership: Governance Beyond Company Affiliation at FOSS Backstage in February 2021 (video).
• Collaborative Leadership: Governance Beyond Company Affiliation at KubeCon North America in November 2020 (video).
• CNCF Project Paperwork Working Session with Josh Berkus and Carolyn Van Slyck at KubeCon North America in November 2020 (video).
• Collaborative Leadership: Governance Beyond Company Affiliation at Open Source Lisbon in November 2020.
• Collaborative Leadership: Governance Beyond Company Affiliation at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit EU Virtual in October 2020.
• Is this Open Source Project Healthy or Lifeless? at All Things Open in October 2020 (video).
• Collaboration in Linux Kernel Mailing Lists at the British Computing Society (BCS) Women in Open Source event in September 2020 (video).
• Be a Good Corporate Citizen in Kubernetes at KubeCon EU Virtual in August 2020 (video).
• Being a Good Corporate Citizen in Open Source as part of the OpenUK Future Leaders series in July 2020 (video).
• Panel Discussion: Succession Planning for the Open Source Movement at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit NA Virtual in June 2020 (video).
• Growing Participation in your Company’s OSS Projects at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit NA Virtual in June 2020 (video).
• Building Community for your Company’s OSS Projects at the Spring Live 24 Hour Virtual Conference in March 2020 (video).
• Building Community for your Company’s OSS Projects at the FOSDEM Community Devroom in February 2020 (video).
• A Week in the Life of Kubernetes at KubeCon NA in San Diego in November 2019 as a joint talk with Jorge Castro (video)
• Open Source Collaboration and Companies: Finding the right balance at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit NA in San Diego in August 2019 and Open Source Summit EU in Lyon in October 2019
• Metrics that Matter: Forging a Path to More Diverse, Inclusive Communities with Nicole Huesman at Open Source Summit EU in Lyon in October 2019
• How to be a Terrible Hiring Manager at OSCON Ignite in July 2019
• Strategies to Balance the Needs of the Company and the Community at the Community Manager Gathering before OSCON in July 2019
• Being a Good Corporate Citizen in Open Source at the UK Open Source Awards in Edinburgh in June 2019
• Open Source Collaboration and Companies: Finding the right balance at the Linux Foundation Open Source Leadership Summit in Half Moon Bay in March 2019
• Building a Community Metrics Strategy in the Community devroom at FOSDEM in Brussels in February 2019 (video)
• Open Source Collaboration: Finding the right balance at the Open Source Strategy Forum in London in November 2018 (video)
• Collaboration in Linux Kernel Mailing Lists at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit Europe in Edinburgh in October 2018
• Collaboration in Linux Kernel Mailing Lists at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America in Vancouver in August 2018
• Collaboration in Linux Kernel Mailing Lists at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit Prague in October 2017
• Collaboration in Linux Kernel Mailing Lists at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit Los Angeles in September 2017
• Visualize Your Code Repos and More with Gource at the FOSDEM Community devroom in February 2017 (GitHub repo)
• Config Management Community: Awesome, Awful or Apathetic? at the FOSDEM Configuration Management devroom in February 2017
• Keynote: Config Management Community: Awesome, Awful or Apathetic? at Config Management Camp Berlin in November 2016
• Using Gource to visualize Linux kernel data at Linuxing in London Meetup in October 2016 (GitHub repo)
• Keynote: Lessons about Community from Science Fiction at CLSx London in October 2016
• Visualize Your Code Repos and More with Gource at LinuxCon in Toronto August 2016 and Berlin October 2016(GitHub repo)
• Keynote: Open source: A Job and an Adventure at OSDC in Berlin April 2016 (related blog post and video)
• Open source: A Job and an Adventure at FLOSS UK March 2016 (related blog post)
• Extracting Data from your Open Source Communities at FOSDEM (HPC, Big Data and Data Science devroom) January 2016 (slides)
• Visualize your repos: Navigate the myriad of Gource configuration options at FLOSS Community Metrics in Brussels January 2016 (GitHub repo)
• Lessons about Community from Science Fiction at CLSx Madrid in December 2015
• Network analysis: People and open source communities at LinuxCon Europe in Dublin 2015 (code)
• Lessons about Community from Science Fiction at DevRelCon in London 2015
• Network analysis: People and Communities at Technical Evangelism Meetup in London September 2015 (code)
• Network analysis: People and open source communities at LinuxCon North America in Seattle 2015 (code)
• Network analysis: People and open source communities at OSCON in Portland July 2015 (code and video)
• Gource Custom Log Format at FLOSS Community Metrics in Portland July 2015 (code)
• Your Metrics Strategy at FLOSS Community Metrics in Brussels January 2015
• Keynote: Lessons about DevOps from Science Fiction at DevOpsDays Berlin October 2014 (Video)
• Open Source: A job and an adventure at LinuxCon Europe (Düsseldorf) October 2014 (detailed blog post recap)
• State of the Puppet Community at PuppetConf 2014 in San Francisco (Video)
• Lessons about Community from Science Fiction at LinuxCon North America (Chicago), August 2014
• Lessons about Community from Science Fiction, the Texas Linux Fest edition from June 2014
• Lessons about Community from Studio Ghibli at LinuxCon Tokyo, May 2014
• Lessons about community from science fiction, the Monki Gras edition, January 2014
• Lessons about community from science fiction, the SCALE12x edition from February 2014
• What we can learn about community from Science Fiction – October 2013
• What we can learn about DevOps from Science Fiction – October and November 2013
• Building a Successful Technology Career – June 2013
• Open Source Community Metrics – November 2012
• Hacking RSS: Filtering & Processing Obscene Amounts of Data – March 2011
• Companies and Communities: Participating without being sleazy.
• Demystifying Social Media Tools and Techniques
• Online Communities: short and basic introduction to online communities
• Online Communities and Marketing: comprehensive 40+ slides on how people in marketing can engage with online communities.
• Open Source Communities: overview of how open source communities function
• What Would Dr. Seuss Say about Online Communities: fun with online communities presented in Ignite style (slides with audio included in this link).
• Online Community Manager: Yes, it’s really a job: careers in community management.
• Online Community Training: presentation from a training session for people getting ready to build online communities.

Video and Audio Recordings of Presentations

• Open Source Collaboration: Finding the right balance at the Open Source Strategy Forum in London in November 2018
• Open source: A Job and an Adventure at OSDC in Berlin April 2016 (slides and related blog post)
• Network analysis: People and open source communities at OSCON in Portland July 2015 (code)
• Impromptu Ask Me Anything Panel about Community Metrics at FOSDEM, January 31, 2015 – it was an unscheduled replacement for a jetlagged speaker who didn’t make it to his session
• Lessons about DevOps from Science Fiction at DevOpsDays Berlin October 2014
• Lessons about Community from Science Fiction 5 minute Ignite talk from OSCON – Portland, July 2014
• Lessons about Community from Science Fiction from Monki Gras – London, February 2014
• Portland and London versions of my “What we can learn about DevOps from science fiction” Ignite talks – October and November 2013
• What we can learn about Community from science fiction Ignite talk – November 2013
• USENIX Women in Advanced Computing (WiAC) Summit: Building a Successful Technology Career – June 2013
• PuppetConf September 2013
• SXSW: Hacking RSS: Filtering & Processing Obscene Amounts of Information – March 15, 2011. Audio available.
• Open Source Bridge: Online Community Metrics: Tips and Techniques for Measuring Participation – June 2011.

Past speaking engagements have included:

• SXSW 2007, 2009, 2011
• FOSDEM
• OSCON 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2015
• LinuxCon and other Linux Foundation events
• Monkigras 2014
• Project Conferences: MeeGo Conference, Tizen Conference, LibreOffice Conference, PuppetConf
• Web 2.0 Expo
• Innotech 2008, 2009
• WebVisions
• Community 2.0 2008, 2009
• Defrag
• Love@First Website
• BlogHer
• Ignite Portland
• Foo 2006
• Open Source Business Conference (OSBC)
• Women in Technology International (WITI)
• Various BarCamps, unconferences, smaller speaking engagements and more