Liza Daly

Liza Daly is a software engineer who specializes in applications for the publishing industry. She was the lead developer on major online products for Oxford University Press and has designed and engineered products for Columbia University Press, Rosen Publishing and SAGE Publications. Currently she is an independent consultant and the founder of threepress.

Consulting

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Writing

Liza is a contributor to O'Reilly Media's Tools of Change publishing blog, focusing on document formats, ebooks and academic publishing. Read posts.

She also blogs for the TeleRead blog on subjects such as applying open source techniques to publishing.

In March of 2007, O’Reilly published her ebook Next-Generation Web Frameworks in Python, which covered three development platforms in Python including Django, which powers threepress.

Liza is also a regular technical editor for O'Reilly and has worked on several CSS and Python books, including CSS: The Definitive Guide, Python for Linux System Administrators and SQLAlchemy.

Advocacy

Liza is active in the open source technology community. She is on the advisory board for the Web 2.0 Expo NYC conference, to be held September 16-19.

She is also a member of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.

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