dawnfoster

Biography: Dawn Foster is the MeeGo Community Manager for Intel with experience and a passion for bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events. She is a co-founder and board member of Legion of Tech, a non-profit chartered with organizing free events for the Portland, Oregon technology community. As part of her work with Legion of Tech, Dawn is an organizer for Portland BarCamp, Ignite Portland and other events. Dawn holds an MBA from Ashland University and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Kent State University. She has worked in positions ranging from Unix system administrator to market researcher to community manager to open source strategist. Dawn regularly blogs about online communities as the author of the Fast Wonder Blog, and she is the author of the book, Companies and Communities: Participating without being sleazy.