Cat Allman leads the Outreach team for Google’s Open Source Programs and is a member of the Making & Science Outreach team. She began working with FOSS communities in the 1980’s. She is a 2x board member of The USENIX Association and has spoken at technology and “maker” conferences around the world including Rome and New York Maker Faires, Linux Conf Australia, Free & Open Source Software Conference Oman, the GoOpen Arctic Forum, SIGCSE, FOSSASIA, and co-chaired the 1st Open Source Track at the 2010 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. She is a co-organizer of the annual Science Foo Camp un-conference, produced with Nature, O’Reilly Media, Digital Science and Google as well as the lead organizer of Education Foo Camp with O’Reilly Media, Sesame Workshop, Macmillan Learning, and the US Dept of Education.