Dawn Foster
Company: FastWonder
Position: Founder
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, blogging, and community building.
Dawn is the author of Fast Wonder: An Open Culture Blog (fastwonderblog.com) 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 is a member of the Portland Open Source Software Entrepreneurs (POSSE).
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.
Contact info: dawn@[FirstnameLastname].com [replace with real first name and last name]