Speaker - Laura Langdon

Laura Langdon is an Open Source Community Manager for the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) network of the University of California. With a focus on the humans in tech communities, Laura is passionate about documentation, diversity and inclusion across all axes, and social responsibility. Working diligently to connect people within the UC open source community to one another and to the greater world of open source, her responsibilities include planning meetups, helping to connect aspiring contributors with projects and vice versa, and creating educational materials about OSS workflows. Laura has previous experience as a developer advocate at Suborbital Software Systems (acquired by F5), and previously as a math lecturer at CSU East Bay. This diverse background in both academia and industry provides her with unique insights into making technical concepts accessible and fostering inclusive community growth. Her approach combines analytical thinking from her mathematics background with a deep understanding of developer experience and community dynamics. In her free time, Laura enjoys recreational research and optimizing all the things.