fyi Regards Jacqueline
Are you a computer angel? (www.computerangels.org.au) ---///--- The women's mini-conference at linux.conf.au 2007 is calling for presentations by women on both Free Software technical topics and general topics of general interest to women involved in Free Software or working in IT. About the miniconference The LinuxChix women's mini-conference will be held on Tuesday, 16 January, 2007 at the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia, as part of the annual linux.conf.au Free Software conference running from 15–20 January, 2007. All attendees of linux.conf.au are welcome to attend the women's miniconference, which will highlight the technical achievements of women in Free Software. The mini-conference welcomes attendees and speakers from other women's advocacy and development groups including Systers, Fedora Women and Debian Women among others. The mini-conference has several 45 talks slots available. Speakers should plan to present for 30 minutes; the remaining time will be devoted to discussion. All technical talks should be on Free (Open Source) Software related topics. Abstracts for talk proposals should be submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Friday, November 10, 2006. The miniconference will also have some shorter (5–10 minute) demonstration and lightning talk slots available, you are welcome to email us to express an interest in giving one of these, but they do not have to be submitted at this time. Please see http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Miniconfs/Linuxchix for more information about the women's mini-conference and http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Miniconfs/Linuxchix/CFP for full details of the call for presentations. Feel free to forward this mail to any women or groups you think would be interested. About linux.conf.au 2007 linux.conf.au is Australia's annual technical conference for the Open Source and Free Software developer community. Now in its eighth year, linux.conf.au is regarded as one of the premier global FLOSS technical events and attracts many international open source software developers and users. Returning to Sydney from the 15th to 20th of January, linux.conf.au 2007 is supported by our Emperor sponsors, HP and IBM, and hosted at the University of New South Wales. For more information about linux.conf.au 2007 visit our website at: http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ About Linux Australia Linux Australia exists to serve and promote the Australian Linux and Open Source community. The organisation aims to do this best by taking enthusiasms within the community, such as FOSS issues, projects, education, advocacy just to name a few, and help them flourish, to succeed. The lifeblood of this organisation is the people in the community, and Linux Australia strives to be both relevant and useful to the community. For more details about Linux Australia visit: http://www.linux.org.au/
