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Javiera De La Fuenta

Javiera De La Fuenta

We wanted to ensure that any other national park could apply what we had learned. Making AI takes lots of time. As we’re mapping biodiversity, if each park does its own, it will be faster.“

Javiera is the founder of the Al Sur del Sur Foundation, which promotes the conservation of biodiversity through open source technology. She helped ranchers in southern Chile use open source hardware and software to tend their flocks with less environmental impact.

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Dr. Ellen Grant

Dr. Ellen Grant

Medicine, at its core, is a collaborative effort to improve human health. The science must be transparent so that teams with complementary expertise can build on each other's advancements.”

Dr. Grant is the Director of the Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center at Children's Hospital Boston. Her work on the open source ChRIS project is leading to faster treatment of patients.

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Máirín “Mo” Duffy

Máirín “Mo” Duffy

We will find better solutions faster if we can collaborate and build on each other's work. My #codeisopen so that I can more easily work with others, and so the next generation can build upon it."

Mo is a principal interaction designer at Red Hat. She’s always been passionate about UX because of its potential to help people—but it was a sudden life event that inspired her to work on ChRIS.

Watch Mo share her story

Allie DeVolder

Allie DeVolder

My #CodeisOpen because I not only work using open source principles, but live my life by them. I use these ideals for work projects, personal projects, life decisions, and even my transition.”

Allie is a Principal Technical Support Engineer at Red Hat and she's a member of the Red Hat Pride Leadership Team. She open sourced her gender transition to help support others going through the process.

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Netha Hussain

Netha Hussain

I believe that collaboration leads to synergistic results. With collaboration, we can achieve more than the sum of the parts taken together."

Netha is a medical doctor and researcher who studies the use of VR technology in measuring stroke recovery. She was named the 2020 Red Hat Women in Open Source Academic Award winner for her contributions to medicine and open technology.

Watch Netha discuss her contributions

Justin W. Flory

Justin W. Flory

Open code is an opportunity to innovate together with others, and shows us the way for how we can collaborate beyond just code.”

Justin is a creative maker and UNICEF’s Open Source Software Technical Advisor. He participates in many open source communities and has represented Fedora internationally at events and conferences. He aims to build sustainable software and communities.

Check out Justin’s blog and work

Alicia Gibb

Alicia Gibb

My #CodeisOpen because I learned from open source code (Processing first, then Aruduino) and opening my code is my way of giving back.”

Alicia is a researcher, hardware hacker, and an advocate for open source hardware. She founded the Open Source Hardware Association to encourage research that is accessible, collaborative, and respects user freedom.

Watch Alicia’s Summit 2017 talk

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Diverse contributors make for better open source communities

Contributor.Link is a new community that connects participating free and open source projects with new contributors of all experience levels and backgrounds. It will focus on bringing more diverse contributors to participating projects and encouraging those projects to create processes that will make it easier and more welcoming for all contributors to get started.

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