Fernanda G. Weiden
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Fernanda "nanda" G. Weiden is a system administrator
System administrator
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 and a former council member of Free Software Foundation Latin America
Free Software Foundation Latin America
Free Software Foundation Latin America is the Latin American sister organisation of the Free Software Foundation. It is the fourth sister organisation of FSF, after Free Software Foundation Europe and Free Software Foundation India...

. She is a participant in Debian Women and an organizer of the Fórum Internacional Software Livre
Fórum Internacional Software Livre
Fórum Internacional do Software Livre is an event sponsored by Associação Software Livre , a Brazilian NGO that, among other objectives, seeks the promotion and adoption of free software...

 (FISL). She is founder of the Women in Free Software Project in Brazil.
Fernanda G. Weiden was elected the vice president of FSFE in June 2009.

Weiden, of German and Italian ancestry, was raised in Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil, with 1,409,939 inhabitants, and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area . It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian...

, Brasil. She works for Google
Google
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 in Zurich
Zürich
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, Switzerland
Switzerland
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.

She was a speaker at Wizards of OS 4 in Berlin.

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