Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLOSS Talent — Women’s Career Taster
On 15/10/12 15:20, Alan Bell wrote: Hi all, There is an event coming up which might be of interest to a number of people on the list, 3 days at Bletchley Park focused on career options for women in the Free and Open Source industry: http://www.flossie.org/?page_id=596 The event is being run for the startlingly low price of £15 for three days and would be of interest to any women seeking a career in this fast growing sector. Anyone seeking to fill posts might want to contact the organisers to find out how best to proceed. Anyone of any gender looking for a job in the Surrey area might want to give me a shout off list :) Alan. Thanks Alan - didn't post to this list before as was afraid it would be off-topic. Women can book on Eventbrite, there's a link on the URL you gave or direct to Eventbrite here: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/4474780188 - the workshops are really amazing, we've got women from IBM and prestigious creative technology companies, participants will be making a simple android app, getting to grips with BASH shell and GitHub and Drupal - there's a women's tour of the National Museum of Computing thrown in along with lunch etc and talks from successful open source career women. Full programme here: http://www.flossie.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/course_outline_and_plan_LIVE.pdf There seems to be a bit of a problem recruiting people with decent open source skills so we're trying to do something about that as well as supporting women to take the plunge and start coding. We're piloting a short taster course with women as Flossie - if it goes well, we'll talk to some of the Universities we already work with about developing a regular summer school - we'll run some for women-only (confidence building) as Flossie and some for mixed participants as Floss Talent (which has the OSC as a partner). Happy to give more info - email i...@flossie.org :) When we develop the longer summer school, it'd be good to include something about how to get started contributing to Ubuntu specifically so we can talk when the time comes? Fossbox has lost our free space, by the way, which kiboshes our Ubuntu sessions for the time being. We're looking at finding an alternative host for them though. We're also toying with the idea of adding a women's Ubuntu session - but not sure if there'd be enough interest to make it worthwhile - so hands up if you'd like one ;) Paula -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLOSS Talent — Women’s Career Taster
Hi Paula, if you let me know what you need for your Ubuntu sessions, I'll see if I can sort something out for you. Regards, Phill. On 15 October 2012 17:12, Paula Graham pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 15/10/12 15:20, Alan Bell wrote: Hi all, There is an event coming up which might be of interest to a number of people on the list, 3 days at Bletchley Park focused on career options for women in the Free and Open Source industry: http://www.flossie.org/?page_id=596 The event is being run for the startlingly low price of £15 for three days and would be of interest to any women seeking a career in this fast growing sector. Anyone seeking to fill posts might want to contact the organisers to find out how best to proceed. Anyone of any gender looking for a job in the Surrey area might want to give me a shout off list :) Alan. Thanks Alan - didn't post to this list before as was afraid it would be off-topic. Women can book on Eventbrite, there's a link on the URL you gave or direct to Eventbrite here: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/4474780188- the workshops are really amazing, we've got women from IBM and prestigious creative technology companies, participants will be making a simple android app, getting to grips with BASH shell and GitHub and Drupal - there's a women's tour of the National Museum of Computing thrown in along with lunch etc and talks from successful open source career women. Full programme here: http://www.flossie.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/course_outline_and_plan_LIVE.pdf There seems to be a bit of a problem recruiting people with decent open source skills so we're trying to do something about that as well as supporting women to take the plunge and start coding. We're piloting a short taster course with women as Flossie - if it goes well, we'll talk to some of the Universities we already work with about developing a regular summer school - we'll run some for women-only (confidence building) as Flossie and some for mixed participants as Floss Talent (which has the OSC as a partner). Happy to give more info - email i...@flossie.org :) When we develop the longer summer school, it'd be good to include something about how to get started contributing to Ubuntu specifically so we can talk when the time comes? Fossbox has lost our free space, by the way, which kiboshes our Ubuntu sessions for the time being. We're looking at finding an alternative host for them though. We're also toying with the idea of adding a women's Ubuntu session - but not sure if there'd be enough interest to make it worthwhile - so hands up if you'd like one ;) Paula -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLOSS Talent — Women’s Career Taster
Thanks Phill - really, we just need a reasonable-sized room with moveable tables, power outlets, and to be able to cable onto the internet - doing Ubuntu laptop installations without cable often results in having to send people home without wifi drivers installed which is not good for beginners. I've got portable projector and stuff so can bring anything else that's needed for sessions with a demo aspect. At the last space we had, we could make tea and coffee, chat, mill about etc so it could be very informal. We avoid pubs - no wifi and also we try to make everything women-friendly as well as man-friendly and milling about drinking tea in a low-key environment is less intimidating - probably for beginners of all sorts and sizes ;) Helps if convenient for transport and reasonably central too. Paula On 15/10/12 17:31, Phill Whiteside wrote: Hi Paula, if you let me know what you need for your Ubuntu sessions, I'll see if I can sort something out for you. Regards, Phill. On 15 October 2012 17:12, Paula Graham pmg...@gmx.co.uk mailto:pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 15/10/12 15:20, Alan Bell wrote: Hi all, There is an event coming up which might be of interest to a number of people on the list, 3 days at Bletchley Park focused on career options for women in the Free and Open Source industry: http://www.flossie.org/?page_id=596 The event is being run for the startlingly low price of £15 for three days and would be of interest to any women seeking a career in this fast growing sector. Anyone seeking to fill posts might want to contact the organisers to find out how best to proceed. Anyone of any gender looking for a job in the Surrey area might want to give me a shout off list :) Alan. Thanks Alan - didn't post to this list before as was afraid it would be off-topic. Women can book on Eventbrite, there's a link on the URL you gave or direct to Eventbrite here: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/4474780188 - the workshops are really amazing, we've got women from IBM and prestigious creative technology companies, participants will be making a simple android app, getting to grips with BASH shell and GitHub and Drupal - there's a women's tour of the National Museum of Computing thrown in along with lunch etc and talks from successful open source career women. Full programme here: http://www.flossie.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/course_outline_and_plan_LIVE.pdf There seems to be a bit of a problem recruiting people with decent open source skills so we're trying to do something about that as well as supporting women to take the plunge and start coding. We're piloting a short taster course with women as Flossie - if it goes well, we'll talk to some of the Universities we already work with about developing a regular summer school - we'll run some for women-only (confidence building) as Flossie and some for mixed participants as Floss Talent (which has the OSC as a partner). Happy to give more info - email i...@flossie.org mailto:i...@flossie.org :) When we develop the longer summer school, it'd be good to include something about how to get started contributing to Ubuntu specifically so we can talk when the time comes? Fossbox has lost our free space, by the way, which kiboshes our Ubuntu sessions for the time being. We're looking at finding an alternative host for them though. We're also toying with the idea of adding a women's Ubuntu session - but not sure if there'd be enough interest to make it worthwhile - so hands up if you'd like one ;) Paula -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
