The opening day of the conference, co-chaired by Selena Deckelmann on June 17, 2009, highlights the diversity of speakers, with one in three being female. Attendees have significant open source experience, totaling 1400 years combined, and a majority have been involved for over a year. The focus is on encouraging networking and collaboration to address common challenges.

2. Opening Day
Selena Deckelmann
Conference co-chair
June 17, 2009

3. Welcome!

6. Who are you?

10. One in three of our speakers
are female.

11. Vegetarians:
17%

12. 92% involved in open source
for more than 1 year.

13. 81% involved in open source
for more than 3 years.

14. 43% involved in open source
for more than 7 years.

15. 18% involved in open source
for more than eleven years.

16. (ridiculous number ahead)

17. 1400 years of open
source experience.

18. So what now?

19. Talk to each other.

20. “jointly solve problems”

21. Hi, Neighbor!