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'''Alex Bayley''', best known as '''Skud''' in online and technology circles, has been involved in open source and more recently open culture, data and similar areas as a open source developer, advocate, and community manager. In the past she has been active in the Linux, Perl, and Freebase communities and a number of other projects, and is presently leading the Save Australian Music Project. She describes herself as having moved from open source to "open stuff".<ref>http://infotrope.net/2011/01/28/why-im-not-an-open-source-person/</ref>
 
 
== Speaking ==
 
 
Skud has spoken at a number of conferences on subjects including Perl, Linux, open data, community management, and women in open source.
 
 
* [[Women at OSCON 2009|OSCON 2009]]
 
** [http://infotrope.net/blog/2009/07/26/forking-encouraged-folk-programming-open-source-and-social-software-development/ Forking Encouraged: Folk programming, open source, and social software development]
 
** Keynote: [[Standing Out in the Crowd]], on women in open source
 
* [[Women at OSCON 2008|OSCON 2008]]
 
* Velocity 2008
 
* [[Women speakers at OSDC Australia 2007|OSDC 2007]]
 
* YAPC::NA 2001
 
* OSCON 2001
 
* YAPC::Europe 2001
 
* [[Linux.conf.au]] 2001
 
 
== Technical ==
 
 
Skud is the author or maintainer of [http://search.cpan.org/~skud/ over a dozen Perl modules], including WWW::Automate, the foundation for the very popular [http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Mechanize/ WWW::Mechanize]. She is the founder of Melbourne.pm and the originator of the Perl Survey.
 
 
Skud worked on open data and open source projects for [http://freebase.com/ Freebase], and was employed by Metaweb and subsequently Google as the Freebase community manager for three years.
 
 
In 2011, she founded the [http://saveaussiemusic.org/ Save Australian Music] project.
 
==Geek Feminism==
 
Skud is the founder of both the Geek Feminism wiki and [[Geek Feminism blog]].
 
==Former name==
 
Until 2011, when she changed her name to Alex Bayley, Skud was sometimes also known by her former name "Kirrily Robert".<ref>http://infotrope.net/2011/09/20/announcement-i%E2%80%99ve-changed-my-name-to-alex-bayley/</ref>
 
 
== References ==
 
 
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== Links ==
 
 
* [http://infotrope.net/bio/ Professional bio]
 
* [http://infotrope.net/blog/ Personal blog]
 
 
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[[Category:Women in Open Source]]
 

Latest revision as of 21:43, 23 November 2018


"Skud" article no longer available.

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