Donna Benjamin
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Donna Benjamin is an Australian open source community contributor, commentator and advocate. She has served in board positions with community organisations including Open Source Industry Australia, Drupal Association[1] and the Ada Initiative,[2] and was the lead organiser of the 2008 linux.conf.au conference in Melbourne.[3] She regularly ran the Community Leadership Summit X at LCA (clsXlca), a workshop focussing on community development in open source projects, as well as community summits at DrupalCon[4]. In 2011 she organised a crowdfunding campaign called Digitise The Dawn, which successfully raised funds to digitise The Dawn,[5] an early feminist journal published in Australia between 1888 and 1905.
In 2012 she received the Rusty Wrench Award from Linux Australia in recognition of her contributions.[6] She runs a micro-business called Creative Contingencies, which specialises in the Drupal content management platform.
References
[edit]- ^ martab. "The Drupal Association Announces Updates to the Board of Directors: Sameer Verma and Donna Benjamin". Drupal Association. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ^ "The Ada Initiative Announces Advisory Board". Linux Weekly News. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ^ Corbet, Jonathan. "linux.conf.au 2008". Linux Weekly News. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ^ https://assoc.drupal.org/blog/amanda.drupal/future-community-summit
- ^ Ross, Monique (7 March 2012). "New dawn for historic suffragette journal". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
- ^ "Linux Australia Awards". Linux Australia. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
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