On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 23:23 -0400, Laura Hartwell wrote:
> I would definately be interested in daytime meetings. I work 6p-midnight
> 6 nights a week so daytime meetings are really my only option outside of
> eavesdropping via webcast while working
Not to be sexist, but female votes should count for a few male ones.
There are far to few women involved in technology. Most any I have been
around at times, have been very impressive. Its just sad there is not
more of them.
Long ago the JaxLUG's president was a female, Erinn Clark. Who also is a
major factor in Debian Women[1][2]. I tried to get a some woman in
Gentoo do consider the same. They ended up coming on board, but one in
particular caused some problems for me, but thats unrelated. Even more
men who caused problems just the same regarding Gentoo. Which Gentoo is
know for its soap opera drama, mostly coming from men. :(
Anyway we lost Erinn to other areas, not sure if she will return to
Jacksonville. But this area has had at least one influential woman in
technology. We really need to see about fostering more, but this time
them remaining in Jacksonville.
The Jax Java Users Group was lead by a woman for a while as well,
Bridget Hillyer. She started her education else where, but completed
that at UNF. Through attending the JUG started getting some contract
work with another JUG member and then eventually on her own. She
attended a few JaxLUG meetings as well. Sadly last year we lost her as
well to another market. I am pretty sure Bridget will not be returning
to Jacksonville ever, very sad!
Of course anyone who is into Debian, knows that it sands for Deb and
Ian[3] :)
"He formed the name "Debian" as a combination of the first name of his
then-girlfriend Debra Lynn and his own first name"
Such a sweet guy, or sell out, either way. To bad they didn't last, and
I wonder if he regrets the name at all. Or if his current mate cares. I
could see her saying, "Where the OS named after me Ian?" :)
1. http://women.debian.org/home/
2. http://women.debian.org/profiles/
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#History
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