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Dawn Foster

Community Manager, Event Organizer, Blogger, Podcaster, Vegan, and Technology Enthusiast

Dawn M. Foster is currently the Director of Developer Relations at Jive Software, a collaboration software company in Portland, OR. She has more than 12 years of experience in technology and software with expertise in open source software, web 2.0, social media, blogging, and community building.

Dawn is the author of the Fast Wonder Blog and is currently working on a book for O’Reilly Media about the Art of Community. She organizes a monthly Portland BarCamp Meetup event for local technology employees, is an organizer for the Portland BarCamp event, and helps organize Ignite Portland. She is a co-founder and Chair of Legion of Tech.

Previously, Dawn worked at Compiere, Intel, and a Midwestern manufacturing company in positions ranging from Unix system administrator to market researcher to open source strategist. She holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Kent State University and a master’s degree in business administration from Ashland University.

Rick Turoczy

Lover of language and connector of dots

Rick Turoczy has worked in Portland high-tech marketing communications roles for more than a dozen years, focusing on making the obtuse and arcane seem—well—simple. His corporate-side stints have included work for companies like MedicaLogic, ProSight, and Digimarc.

But he has spent some time on the other side of the desk, as well. And, has run his own consulting gig, Return, since 2006. He is also the driving force behind Silicon Florist, a blog that covers the small startups, blogs, and events here in Portland and the Silicon Forest.

Rick began programming on a “cutting edge” TRS-80 in 1979 and has continued to feed a relentless addiction to technology, ever since. Close friends, in fact, have often heard him utter, “I coded the coolest Pac-Man game in BASIC this one time…”

In high school, Rick was lucky enough to get into desktop publishing on this wacky new platform called the “Apple Macintosh”. (But he may have actually logged more hours playing “Dark Castle.”) He was a heavy VAX/VMS, TELNET, and PINE user in college. And one of the first owners of the Apple Macintosh LCIII, affectionately dubbed “the pizza box.” He bought his first URL, hypocritical.com, nearly a decade ago.

Rick graduated from Whitman College in 1993 with a BA in English that included a heavy focus on often-inebriated Catholic southern authors—with a minor in inebriated authors from all over the world.

He lives in southwest Portland (Garden Home area) with his wife, Multnomah County children’s librarian Erica Moore, and his two sons, Miles and Eames.

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