VM (ak Vicky) spent most of her 20 years in the tech industry leading software departments & teams, and providing technical management & leadership consulting for small and medium businesses. Now she leverages nearly 30 years of FOSS experience & a strong business background to advise companies about free/open source, technology, community, business, & the intersections between them.

She is the author of Forge Your Future with Open Source, the first book to detail how to contribute to free & open source software projects. The book is published by The Pragmatic Programmers & is now available in an early release beta version at https://fossforge.com.

Vicky is the proud winner of the Perl White Camel Award (2014) and the O’Reilly Open Source Award (2016). She's a moderator and author for opensource.com and a frequent and popular speaker at FOSS conferences and events. She frequently blog about free/open source, business, and tech management at http://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com.

Presentations

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Passing the Baton: Succession planning for FOSS leadership

There are many of us who remember a time before open source came into being in the late 1990s. Of those, most helped to shape the open source movement we enjoy today. But what happens when these people decide to retire? While we have these founders in our midst, we must take the time to do succession planning for free and open source leadership.

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SCALE Speaker Training Seminar

If you have never attended a speaker training before, this tutorial will show you how much better your talks could be. If you have, you might pick up a few tips and ideas. And if you're presenting at SCALE, this tutorial will give you some last-minute changes to tweak your talk.

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