“Weekend Testing Americas (WTA) is the newest chapter of Weekend Testing, first premiering in November of 2010. This initiative is aimed at testers in the Western Hemisphere and covers Canada in the North to Chile in the South and everyone in between. Since IST is equivalent to 3:00 AM to 6:00 AM in the Unted States and since the European Weekend Testers times were still as early as 8:30 AM for those on the West Coast of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Joe, Michael and Lynn decided to initiate a chapter of Weekend Testing in the Americas. With a great response to this initiative, this chapter is happy to be catering to the needs of testers in North, Central and South America.

To participate in WTA, email to WTAmericas@gmail.com and add “weekendtestersamericas” to your Skype ID List.

Joe Harter is a student of the context-driven school of software testing in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He is an active member in the Software Testers of Cincinnati group, and hopes to meet other testers who can challenge him and help grow this great field called software testing.

Michael Larsen is a software tester in San Francisco, California, USA. Michael is a strong proponent for the continuing education and skills development for software testers. To this end he is actively involved as an assistant instructor with the Association for Software Testing, podcast producer for Software Test Professionals’ “This Week in Software Testing” podcast, and a brown belt in the Miagi-do School of Software Testing. Michael also blogs at mkl-testhead.blogspot.com and can be reached on twitter at @mkltesthead.

Lynn McKee is an independent consultant with a passion for helping organizations, teams and individuals deliver valuable software. Lynn is active in the software testing community as a member of the Board of Directors for the Association for Software Testing and the Software Quality Discussion Group, presenting at conferences, writing articles and is the co-founder of the Perspectives on Software Testing Workshop. You can reach Lynn online at www.qualityperspectives.ca or on Twitter at @lynn_mckee.