Leslie Hawthorn
Senior Principal Program Manager - Red Hat
As an internationally known Developer Relations strategist and Community Management expert, Leslie has spent the past decade creating, cultivating, & enabling open source communities. She’s best known for creating Google Code-in, the world’s first global initiative to involve pre-university students in open source software development and receiving an O’Reilly Open Source Award in 2010 for her work to grow the Google Summer of Code program and her contributions to Humanitarian open source projects. She is a Senior Principal Program Manager at Red Hat, focusing on the CentOS project ecosystem.
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