Melbourne 2008: Request for Mini-conf Proposals Opens
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| Kathryn Moyle, Associate Professor at the University of Canberra said
| "having attended all the education mini-confs held in Australia, I have
| found they provide the opportunity for IT specialists and educators from
| schools, vocational education and in higher education to meet and share
| ideas, strategies, successes and failures about how to include open
| technologies within the education sector."
|
| The popular LinuxChix mini-conf, run by women in the Open Source community,
| discussed topics as diverse as techniques for social networking, bug fixing
| for non-programmers, and the role of women in Information Technology and
| Open Source.
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http://linux.org.au/News/mel08_Miniconf_Call_Opens
Female Role Models in Technology
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| I don't know what can be done to change the perceptions that woman have or
| to provide them with role models that they will aspire to be like. But
| I am starting to realise that although I expect to be accepted by
| any community of technologists that many woman do not feel this way.
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http://martian.org/karen/2007/05/28/female-role-models-in-technology/
There appear to be some more women in Linux forums.
Related:
Sierra: a brain that thinks about thinking
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| linux.conf.au keynote speaker Kathy Sierra on reaching 'brains'
| instead of 'minds'
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id%3b390929563%3bfp%3b16%3bfpid%3b1
SCALE To Host Women in Open Source Mini Conference
,----[ Quote ]
| The Southern California Linux Expo announces plans to host a 'Women
| In Open Source' Mini-conference. The goals of the conference are to
| encourage women to use technology and open source and free software,
| and to explore the obstacles that women face in breaking into the
| technology industry.
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http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/pr/pr_20070102.php
Women flock to Linux talkfest
,----[ Quote ]
| Female registrations have hit an all time high for Linux.conf.au (LCA)
| to be held in Sydney next year.
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http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Women_flock_to_Linux_talkfest/0,339028227,339272778,00.htm
Pollsmoor prisoners write OpenICDL
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| The programme, which has been running for six months, aims at
| teaching advanced end-user computing skills, including the use
| of OpenOffice.org and the Linux desktop included in the tuXlab
| distro which is built on EduBuntu. Inmates are also given access
| to Wikipedia, which they can use for research and to further
| their studies.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1366
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/showcase/video/4-love/
Top 10 Girl Geeks
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| Which got me thinking. History aside, is it possible to come up with a
| list of 10 current female geeks? Starting with myself, I can come upw
| ith 10 influential females in Open Source:
|
|
| 1. Dru Lavigne
|
| 2. Mitchell Baker
|
| 3. Danese Cooper
|
| 4. Allison Randal
|
| 5. Elizabeth Zwicky
|
| 6. Æleen Frisch
|
| 7. Lynne Jolitz
|
| 8. Machtelt Garrels
|
| 9. Erinn Clark
|
| 10. Máirín Duffy
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http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archives/top-10-girl-geeks-13100
Interview: Elizabeth Krumbach of LinuxChix
,----[ Quote ]
| As women become more involved with open source communities, it's
| important that their voices be heard... Read on to find out how she
| became involved with computers, why she likes to buy equipment online,
| and her advice for women contemplating involved in open source
| communities.
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http://dot.kde.org/1158867833/
Study shows more women prefer Ubuntu
,----[ Quote ]
| Informal study shows: more women prefer Ubuntu.
|
| Alright, so the evidence is purely anecdotal for now, and the study was
| by authoritative ol' me, but I really am meeting more women using
| Ubuntu. Quite a ways from the old days when female Linux users were
| few and far between.
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http://villageidiotsavant.blogspot.com/2006/11/study-shows-more-women-prefer-ubuntu.html
linux.conf.au organisers tweak focus as final keynoter announced
,----[ Quote ]
| Organisers have made the third and final announcement of speakers
| for Australia?s top Open Source conference
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1730868397
Women flock to Linux talkfest
,----[ Quote ]
| Female registrations have hit an all time high for Linux.conf.au (LCA)
| to be held in Sydney next year.
`----
http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Women_flock_to_Linux_talkfest/0,339028227,339272778,00.htm
GNOME and Google reach out to women
,----[ Quote ]
| GNOME's Women's Summer Outreach Program (WSOP) is underway, with twice
| the number of projects originally scheduled, thanks to Google's
| generosity. The program has not only brought a few more women into
| the GNOME fold, but it seems to have jump-started efforts to actively
| recruit female developers within other open source projects as well.
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http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/10/2219218&from=rss
GNOME needs women
http://business.newsforge.com/business/06/06/15/2054202.shtml?tid=35&tid=25
Ubuntu:
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| Ubuntu-Women is a team functioning under Ubuntu to provide a platform
| and encouragement for women to contribute to Ubuntu-Linux, a Debian
| based free and open-source GNU/Linux software. Our main role will be
| along the lines of supplementing and being the stepping stone towardt
| he larger Ubuntu-Linux world. Membership is open to all.
`----
http://ubuntu-women.org/
Debian:
http://women.debian.org/
,----[ Introduction ]
| A large portion of the Fedora userbase is made up of women. They are
| often under-represented within the community, with many people not
| even realizing how big a share of the community they are. The Fedora
| Women program aims to improve that representation and to provide a forum
| for the women of the Fedora Community.
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http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Women
,----[ Quote ]
| Open-source project Fedora has launched Fedora Women, a forum and
| mailing list, in an effort to encourage more female developers to
| participate in its community.
`----
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6100569.html
Women geeks bag top two software contest prizes
,----[ Quote ]
| In third place were five other young women - Chethana A., Chythra J.S.,
| Divya A.C., Sandhya N. Bhatt, and Sumalatha K.P. - working on localisation
| of Free Software and Open Source in Indian languages from the Shri
| Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore. Their goal: to develop
| a native language interface for GNU/Linux operating system at thec
| onsole level.
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http://www.teluguportal.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7890
http://www.newkerala.com/news3.php?action=fullnews&id=23248
Opening doors to open source for women
,----[ Quote ]
| From thoughtless comments on mailing lists to outright rudeness, women
| constantly battle the perception that there is no comfortable place for
| them in the predominately male world of open source software. That,
| however, may be beginning to change.
|
| With the advent of projects like GNOME Foundation's Summer Outreach
| Program aimed at supporting women developers, and with women-centric
| LUGs such as LinuxChix and Debian Women springing up, women are finding
| the respect that most community members -- male and female -- feel they
| deserve.
|
| [...]
|
| Once a woman has joined an open source community, there are several things
| she can do to help prop open doors for other women. "One of the major
| things missing from free software right now is female role models -- being
| a role model for other women is one of the best ways to promote women's
| involvement," says Wallach.
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http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/20990
SCALE 5x: Women in Open Source
,----[ Quote ]
| "It was excellent, but I came with, I suppose... a little bit of
| fear that nobody was going to show up. I've dabbled with the
| idea of having similar thing at a conference that I run called
| the Ohio Linux Fest," she told me. "I absolutely feel inspired by
| this. I wondered for quite some time as to how I made the shift --
| of being able to walk into this community and feel that I would
| be accepted rather than just sit down very shyly and figure that
| I wasn't going to be accepted. I do now feel like a welcomed
| member of this community."
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http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/300/
Portrait: LinuxChix Brazil's Sulamita Garcia
,----[ Quote ]
| A lot of people have bemoaned the lack of women participating
| in open source communities, but Sulamita Garcia is one of the
| few who have stepped up to do something about it. A Slackware
| user from Florianopolis, Brazil, Garcia has been heading up
| LinuxChix Brazil for four years.
|
| Garcia has been involved with Linux and open source software
| since 1999, when she was at university finishing a computer
| science degree and was tasked with testing asynchronous transfer
| mode (ATM) cards in a Linux system.
`----
http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/07/1645205&tid=12
Linuxchix New Zealand set up
,----[ Quote ]
| Women who like Linux now have a community organisation in New
| Zealand to support them: LinuxChix NZ.
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http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=7053
Linuxchix Australia Expands
,----[ Quote ]
| An Australia-wide chapter of LinuxChix has formed, for women
| living in Australia who are interested in Linux and Free Software.
`----
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/81627/index.html
Interview: The BSD Certification Group's Dru Lavigne
,----[ Quote ]
| During the Southern California Linux Exposition (SCALE) 5x's
| mini-conference on women in open source software, BSD Certification
| Group member Dru Lavigne put forth the idea that free/open source
| software provided an excellent opportunity to inexpensively
| change one's career path.
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http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/305/
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