First academic and first female member join OSMPA, congrats from Maria Sipka

Third day of OSMPA was exactly as exciting as the ones before. Again we have new members to announce:

• Liza Kindred, in her own words: This is Liza Kindred. I am Business Director for Lullabot, a high-end consulting and education company specializing in Drupal, a wonderful Open-Source CMS (and more!). I am an evangelist for the business of Open Source, and would love to be a contributing member to a community that works to bring non-technical professionals together.
• Lars Pankalla, in his own words: A big hello to the OSM-Community! My name is Lars and I’m currently scientific assistant at an institute of marketing and management. Regarding my research interests that lie especially in the field of OSM, Web 2.0 and social networking, one of my contributions to this group could be - beside supporting the marketing and PR activities - to build up an team of OS-Marketers that reflect the OSM-Movement from an scientific point of view.

Besides these two Maria Sipka wrote the following via Mail:

Dear Helge,
Congratulations on your initiative. It looks very exciting and promising. I’d love to participate in this once we’ve successfully launched Linqia. (..) I like to participate in activities I can contribute and at the moment I wouldn’t even have time to read emails.

For those who don’t know Maria: She started a 10K member community on XING connecting Global Business Women. Right now she starts her own venture Linquia. Maybe OSMPA-Group will be listed there in the future?

Ok - so what about day 4?