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Selena Deckelmann is an enthusiastic open source advocate and PostgreSQL specialist. She founded and is co-chair of Open Source Bridge, a developer conference for open source citizens. In her spare time, she likes to mix drinks for her local Perl and Postgres user groups, and fetch eggs from her chickens (when she has them).

You can contact her at selenamarie@gmail.com.

Want to know more?

Check out this Portland On Fire profile from January 6, 2008.

You can also find all the typical work-related stuff at:
LinkedIn

Selena tends to write about things like: women in Open Source, Open Source World Domination, and features that make PostgreSQL rock. She likes writing, generally. And can usually be convinced to write about things she’s up to. She also likes to draw monkeys.

Here are some other articles:
Free Space Map improvements and Visibility Map in PostgreSQL 8.4, March 2009
Ten new features that make PostgreSQL 8.3 a must-have, March 2008
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: New Features in Postgres 8.4, April 2009

She sometimes gets mentioned in blogs and press:
Postgres 8.4: We’ve got momentum
Community organized events vs. traditional conferences
Geek of the Week: Selena Deckelmann

Fun little projects:
PostgreSQL User Groups around the globe

Appearances:

OSCON 2008, 2009
PgCon 2008, 2009
FOSDEM 2009
PostgreSQL Conference West (Seattle), October 17, 2009
Japanese PostgreSQL Users Group 10 year anniversary (Tokyo), November 20-21, 2009
LCA 2010 (New Zealand), January 18-23, 2010
Libre Planet, Boston, MA: March 19-21, 2010
LinuxFest Northwest 2009, 2010
PgCon, May 18-21

Open Source Bridge, June 1-4

DevNation, July 10

Recordings of presentations:
Interview with me at GSoC Mentor Summit

How to Unrig an election – Ignite Portland talk on my trip to Nigeria, and how Ondo state unrigged their election