making women in MINT visible at 36C3

2019-10-26 Thread Holger Levsen
hi, FYI: Greetings Chaos! Women have contributed a lot to the development of electronics and computer science, but have received little recognition for their scientific achievements. This lack of visibility for remarkable women in tech leads to the misperception that computing is a domain of men

Re: Meet-and-greet in Debian conferences

2018-08-08 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 04:49:23PM -0300, Tassia Camoes Araujo wrote: > If we follow your suggestion, than it might be better to run this > session in an open space, as opposed to an auditorium? Would it work > as a daily moment of "checkin" in one of the hacklabs? Or just after > lunch, at the caf

Re: Debian Women lunch @ DebConf 18

2018-08-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Ulrike, thanks for posting this summary! I'm replying to the list and not to gobby as I'm currently offline on my back from dc18... On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 06:19:00AM +, Ulrike Uhlig wrote: > Mailing list & DW @ DebConf > === > > There was a proposal to merge the d

A/V opt-out for speakers (Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Erinn, thanks for bringing this up. (Full context for those who dont't follow debian- women@l.d.o is at http://lists.debian.org/20130819214628.ge9...@mrsa.erinn.org) On Montag, 19. August 2013, Erinn Clark wrote: > So my other recommendation to conference organizers is: make it explicit > tha

Re: Translating "Debian Women"

2013-05-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 18. Mai 2013, Marianne C. wrote: > You can start with a disclaimer I'd put that at the end/bottem (if at all), there is no need to apologize upfront for using appropriate language. cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Licensing of D-W training session tutorials

2010-12-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, btw, kudos for the training sessions and the results from this! (I also agree that publishing the material accompanied with a proper licence is a good thing, also that one licence should be chosen for everything.) On Samstag, 11. Dezember 2010, Francesco Poli wrote: > Well, the FTP masters s

Re: 26C3?

2009-12-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Erinn, On Montag, 14. Dezember 2009, Erinn Clark wrote: > Anyone going to 26C3 in Berlin? I'll be there and generally around > Germany/Europe until Jan 6th. Cool! Looking forward to see you there! In case you haven't noticed, there will be a Debian booth/gathering, see http://events.ccc.de/c

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-09-10 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mittwoch, 26. August 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > It seems to me that this comment is sexist, and has no place on any Debian > mailing list. It seemed and seems to me you were trolling here :-( signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-08-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, Actually I dont think it's a joke, but (hope it is "just") a pointless, stupid comment, made without much thought. (I assume trying to be $whatever ("funny"?, dont care. Poor Caster (for being the object of so much crap).) Of course most women-only events are also open to those "few" who f

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-08-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 24. August 2009, Margarita Manterola wrote: > It'd be a shame to go through the effort of gathering quite a number > of regional women for an event, and then make it so that only a group > of people (women) can attend. Poor men indeed! > One thing > is to try to show women that th

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-08-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Marga, On Donnerstag, 20. August 2009, Margarita Manterola wrote: > I'm thinking of organizing a local (i.e. in Argentina) Free Software > event, where all the speakers are women, and somehow try to advertise > this event so that it's clear that it's specially oriented towards > women, but obvi