Shannon Smith (http://about.me/shannonasmith) is the founder of Café Noir Design (http://www.cafenoirdesign.com/), a boutique Montréal web design company specializing in multilingual web development. She builds beautiful, functional websites that her clients can update themselves and that are easy for search engines to find. She support things like making the web accessible for everyone, using open source software, helping organizations find greener more sustainable ways to operate through online technology and helping non-profits with online community organizing. Also poet, sewist, and mother of four.