Hi, Valorie -- The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) did an entire track on Women in Open Source (WIOS). The schedule for this is here:
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/special-events/scale-8x-women-open-source.html Many of the women who spoke at SCALE would probably be available to speak at LFNW. My daughter Mirano, along with Karsten Wade's daughters Malakai and Saskia, did a talk during the WIOS track, talking on "Girl Voices in Open Source." The girls use talked about their use of various FOSS programs and the Wade girls made a film with Blender (I think). Anyway, just thought I'd pass that on, since WIOS was fairly successful at SCALE and, as the father of a tech-minded daughter, I'm always a big fan of promoting women in tech. Larry Cafiero On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Valorie Zimmerman < [email protected]> wrote: > While at OSCON, one of the kindly fellows from the LFNW booth came > over to talk with me about speaking at LFNW, but ended up asking me to > try to put together a track about women in Linux. I told him that > sounded a bit dated, and how about a track about inclusiveness in > general? However, I don't know how popular that would be to the LFNW > crowd. > > He also urged to me meet up with the women at the Girls in Tech booth > across the hall, which I did. While the women in the booth didn't seem > that excited about participating in LFNW, they did give me Ivo Lukas' > email address, and so she is included in this email, as are Linuxchix, > Seattle Linuxchix, Ubuntu-Women, and the LFNW list. > > I'm eager to get thoughts rumbling around, and make a definite > proposal to the LFNW organizers. However, this is entirely new > territory for me, so I would appreciate ideas, cautions, enthusiasm, > etc. from anyone to whom I've cross-posted. As a stirring stick to > this cauldron of thought, I'll toss in a link from MichelleQ via Rikki > Kite: http://mashable.com/2010/07/28/developer-hacker-women-twitter/ . > Especially look at the links at the end of the article -- there are So > Many Women we could ask to speak. > > Looking forward to lots of advice, > > Valorie > -- > New! http://genealogy-uki.linkpendium.com/ > Facebook, Twitter, Identi.ca, LinkedIn, Delicious: valoriez . > All my pages: http://valorie.zimmerman.googlepages.com > _______________________________________________ > Fest-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.peakserv.com/mailman/listinfo/fest-list >
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