Diabetes is hard, let's go shopping for a new glucose monitoring solution

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  Lana Brindley
  

  Lana has been playing with technology since the days when she lusted desperately after a Hypercolor t-shirt. She's no longer interested in the t-shirt, but the technology bit stuck, and she's now been working as a technical writer and manager for over fifteen years. A pedant since birth, Lana will quite happily lecture anyone for hours on the finer points of grammar, style, information architecture, and content strategy, if only people will stand still long enough. She recently had a mid-life crisis, which entailed buying an electric vehicle, kicking out her teenage daughter, and driving the car interstate to move in with her partner in Sydney. She still owns the cat and the Kitchenaid. The Roomba didn't make the cut.

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  Steve Kowalik
  

  Steve has been an open source developer for over 20 years, and first attended LCA in Brisbane, in 2002. Steve's first love was Perl, please don't hold that against him, but is currently deeply in love with Python. Steve had a financial crisis of his own just before the pandemic which involved buying property in Sydney as well as an electric vehicle. As such, Steve now has no money at all. Steve has also recently acquired a live-in girlfriend and a cat, which has put more of a strain on his non-existent finances. Steve currently works for SUSE on packaging the Python interpreter, and all the way up the stack to Python leaf modules, as well as debugging test failures, module bugs and dealing with security issues.