I'm the open source community manager for Socialtext. Right now I'm working on improving the open source wiki. I'm also going through the process of setting up a Socialtext Open install on Fedora and on Ubuntu, taking notes, and will be adding to the install documentation. I'll also be getting involved with development projects in progress.

Contact info:

 * Email: liz.henry at socialtext.com

About me:

I live in the SF Bay Area and am working from the Socialtext offices on Tues, Thurs. and Friday; and from home Monday/Wednesday. I teach at Evergreen Valley College on M/W mornings until the end of May.

My work blog is here in /open: Liz's blog

And I also blog at Composite, BlogHer, Feminist SF , othermag, SF Metroblogging, & many other places.

Lately when I go places I am concerned with accessibility and wheelchair manners. FYI I spent 3 years using a wheelchair in the 90s and several years walking with a cane, afterwards. No it is not degenerative and I don't have MS; it's a low back problem that is compressing a nerve and my ability to walk varies from day to day and hour to hour. Let's not have a giant conversation about it kthxbye... My patience wears thin...

I've worked in IT for various universities including University of Chicago, UC Irvine, and Stanford. I was also a software engineer mostly doing Perl and DB stuff, building back-end tools, in the Excite search ops group. After Hurricane Katrina I helped out at the evacuee center at the Houston Astrodome with an organization called Technology For All. (Disaster relief teams need wikis, and the training to use them!)

Since 2001 I've gotten a Masters in Comparative Literature from San Francisco State and blogged quite a lot. I go to and speak at lots of conferences, including SXSWi, BlogHer, Bloggercon; Wiscon, Potlatch; and the conference for the American Literary Translators Association.

Current projects

Wiki structure
Navigation
Tagsonomy
Gardening this wiki
Wiki metrics
New draft of main page