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Sarah Novotny

Sarah Novotny
Open Source Communties Program Manager, Google

@sarahnovotny

Sarah Novotny is an open source community manager at Google. Sarah’s recent technological focuses include open source, cloud and utility computing, infrastructure automation, and data (big and small; relational and nonrelational). Her calling lies in sharing her excitement about technology and coalescing a group around a consistent vision. She loves meeting people and rapidly assessing what information she needs to impart in order to draw them into the vision or story that she has to share. Sarah enjoys bridging the gap between the business world and the tech world. Her background includes leading operational IT and development teams and external-facing work in biz dev, sales engineering, customer support, and, of course, public speaking.

Sessions

9:00am–9:15am Monday, 07/21/2014
Welcome and Introduction
Cloud
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Sarah Novotny (Google)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 1 rating)
Sarah Novotny, OSCON Program Chair, technical evangelist and community manager for NGINX will kick off Open Cloud Day. Read more.
9:00am–9:05am Tuesday, 07/22/2014
Opening Welcome and Keynotes
Portland Ballroom
Matthew McCullough (GitHub), Sarah Novotny (Google), Simon St.Laurent (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 10 ratings)
Opening remarks by OSCON program chairs, Matthew McCullough, Sarah Novotny and Simon St. Laurent. Read more.
9:00am–9:05am Wednesday, 07/23/2014
Announcements & Keynotes
Portland Ballroom
Sarah Novotny (Google), Matthew McCullough (GitHub), Simon St.Laurent (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Average rating: ***..
(3.50, 2 ratings)
Wednesday announcements and remarks by OSCON program chairs, Matthew McCullough, Sarah Novotny and Simon St. Laurent. We'll be announcing more keynote speakers here soon. Read more.
9:20am–9:30am Wednesday, 07/23/2014
Racing Change: Accelerating Innovation Through Radical Transparency

Portland Ballroom
Moderated by:
Sarah Novotny (Google)
Panelists:
Edwin Aoki (PayPal), Danese Cooper (PayPal), Josh Bleecher Snyder (PayPal)
Average rating: **...
(2.86, 14 ratings)
In February of this year, PayPal announced it had hired Danese Cooper as their first Head of Open Source. PayPal? And Open Source? In fact, Open Source is playing a key role in reinventing PayPal engineering as a place where innovation at scale is easy and fun - especially if you like to work in Open Source. Read more.
9:00am–9:05am Thursday, 07/24/2014
Announcements & Keynotes
Portland Ballroom
Matthew McCullough (GitHub), Sarah Novotny (Google), Simon St.Laurent (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 2 ratings)
Thursday announcements and remarks by OSCON program chairs, Matthew McCullough, Sarah Novotny and Simon St. Laurent. We'll be announcing more keynote speakers here soon. Read more.
11:50am–12:30pm Thursday, 07/24/2014
OSCON Town Hall

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Gina Blaber (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Matthew McCullough (GitHub), Sarah Novotny (Google), Simon St.Laurent (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 2 ratings)
OSCON belongs to its attendees, and we want to hear what you think of this year’s show. Join the organizers to talk about what you loved and hated about OSCON, and what you’d like to see next year. Read more.