An internationally known community manager, speaker and author, Leslie Hawthorn has spent the past decade creating, cultivating and enabling open source communities. She created the world’s first initiative to involve pre-university students in open source software development, Google Code In, launched Google’s #2 Developer Blog, and received an O’Reilly Open Source Award in 2010. She's a semi-recent emigree to Amsterdam, The Netherlands and loves life as an expat.