Donna Benjamin
Executive Director, Creative Contingencies
President, Linux Users of Victoria
Donna Benjamin is the Executive Director of Creative Contingencies, an Australian company specialising in customised web services, research and event management. In addition to this Donna is currently President of Linux Users of Victoria and an active member of LinuxChix, Open Source Victoria and Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA). Donna was a board member of OSIA and served as director for 2006-2008 and currently organises the Melbourne OSIA gatherings. She was the lead organiser for Australia’s largest free and open source conference, linux.conf.au in Melbourne in 2008, and sits on the technical committee for the 2010 ACEC conference.
Donna is a passionate advocate of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) solutions for small business and education and is currently writing a book about Inkscape, an open source vector graphic drawing application. She is also developing a Matrix that matches the Victorian Essential learning standards with Free and Open Source Software. In 2008 she delivered a keynote address at the K12 Open Minds conference in Indianapolis, USA and the Sakai conference in Melbourne and delivered an Inkscape tutorial at linux.conf.au 2009 in Hobart, Australia.
