About this site

Brenda writes and uses open source code for mobile telcos. She works with SMS, WAP, and embedded applications for cellphones and PDAS, realtime billing, remote data access and phone number portability amongst other things. She wishes she had more Erlang projects. She sometimes talks in the 3rd person. Brenda knows life is too short to use java.

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Open Source

Paul Fenwick wrote this nice intro for me once:

Brenda, often seen as 'br3nda' or 'shiny' on-line, is an organisational
and coding genius. Her many achievements include helping organise
Linux.conf.au 2010, regularly speaking at user groups and conferences, and starting Geek Girl Dinners and uperHappyDevHouse in New Zealand. She's responsible for geekspeakr.com, a global website for finding female technical speakers, and she hacks on *everything*. StatusNet (think FOSS twitter), OLPCs, Drupal, embedded devices, phones, open government, and a
huge amount of telco related code. Brenda is the face of geek.nz, and is the person I'd most want on my team if I were fighting against a killer-robot apocalypse.

Brenda won "Wellington Visionary of the Year 2009" at Unlimited Potentials Bloggers' Predict

The Capital City’s geek girl extraordinaire and queen bee of the software community, Brenda is to mobile technology and open source what honey is to brown bread, she makes it taste better!

In 2008 Brenda was a finalist in the New Zealand Open Source Awards, for "Tireless work with open source communities"

Br3nda's a geek. Passionate about open source; passionate about technology. Whether it's SuperHappyDevHouse, Linuxchix or helping bring the biggest Linux Conference in the southern hemisphere to Wellington, Brenda Wallace is a truly remarkable person. If you don't come across her testing the One Laptop Per Child XO platform at weekend volunteer fathering in WEllington, you'll find her virtually on Twitter, Flickr, Ohloh, Drupal and counless other support forums, and her own coffee.geek.nz blog. ...

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Gadgets

According to the organisers of Gadgets, Games & Geeks '08:

Wellington’s own Girl Geek supremo and open source advocate extraordinaire, the irrepressible Brenda co-founded the monthly developer picnic known as SuperHappyDevHouse. Describing herself as a “mobile technology wrangler”, Brenda develops open source code for mobile applications at Catalyst I.T.

Wellington

Brenda Wallace was declared the superhero of open source in
Wellington, by Wellingtonista in 2007.

Coffee Geek AKA Brenda Wallace AKA Taniwhaiti on flickr is the superhero of open source in Wellington. She's spearheaded the successful and very popular SuperHappyDevHouseAotearoa - a monthly hackathon where coders from across Wellington hang in one place and get their code on. Why this rocks is because SHDH is not about people from different companies competing or poaching staff, but about bringing together like-minded geeks to share knowledge, and that is just a little bit awesome. Plus she has the largest collection of gadgets in the whole of Wellington, takes fantastic photos of our city, and how could we not include someone who is so passionate about coffee that they have it in their URL?

Brenda contribute patches to Drupal frequently (mostly postgresql compat), as well as a few contrib modules. She spends far too much time playing with webservices.