Minutes from the meeting held at DebConf15 today

2015-08-20 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi all, We held a Debian Women meeting today. It was only an hour although we probably could have kept talking as there were a lot of interested people there that wanted to share their ideas, but we had to stop due to other concurrent events. For those that were and for those that were not there,

More opportunities to get to DebConf15

2015-06-17 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hey all! DebConf is the annual Debian Conference. It's an event that brings people together, and that can make a really big difference regarding your participation in the community, as it allows to put faces to names and fosters collaboration in a way that IRC can't really solve. This year, DebCo

Re: Concern about racism and sexism in Supertuxkart 0.9

2015-04-30 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > I see one woman, and ~15 anymals, no men at all. > How can this be interpreted as "privileging a male gaze position."? I think the issue is that the woman is scantily clad. That said, I also don't find those posters particula

MiniDebConf Bucharest is almost here!

2015-04-25 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi all, It's less than a month till the MiniDebConf Bucharest! We have a list of all currently accepted talks here: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen/Projects/MiniDebconf-Women/2015/Talks We still have some free slots, so if you have some last minute proposal, please send it to: propos...@buch

MiniDebConf Bucharest. May 16-17, 2015. Call for Talks

2015-02-08 Thread Margarita Manterola
The Debian Women project is proud to announce the second edition of its MiniDebConf, to take place this spring in Bucharest. Last year, the Debian Women MiniDebConf took place in Barcelona, gathering 150 Debian enthusiasts. We are organising two days of talks and activities about Debian on the we

The Debian Women mini-DebConf comes back in 2015, this time in Bucharest

2015-01-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi all, This will come as a surprise for many of you (I hope it's a good surprise :). We are going to be holding a MiniDebConf in Bucharest, similar to the one held in Barcelona last year. This means that we aim to have another MiniDebConf where all the speakers identify themselves as women. Th

Last minute travel grants for MiniDebConf Barcelona

2014-03-06 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi there, If you are a lurker on this list that is interested in participating in Debian but feels that is not good enough (a problem many of us have, called impostor syndrome), we would like to invite you to attend the MiniDebConf Barcelona happening in less that 10 days! Thanks to the generosit

MiniDebConf in Barcelona - March 15 & 16 2014

2014-02-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
MiniDebConf 2014 Barcelona == Debian Women is proud to announce that it will hold a MiniDebConf in Barcelona on 15-16 March 2014, where Debian enthusiasts from far and wide will gather to talk about the latest Debian changes and the Debian community, as well as to meet new

Talks Team for the Mini DebConf Barcelona 2014

2013-12-05 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, As you may have already heard several times, we are organizing a Mini DebConf that will take place in Barcelona in March 2014. We are about to send a call for papers for it, and we need people to form the "talks team", that will select the talks. Please send me a private email if you are int

Interesting article about women in science

2013-10-07 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, The New York Times has published and interesting (and long) article about the lack of women in Science: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/why-are-there-still-so-few-women-in-science.html It focuses particularly on maths and physics and it's a bit US-centric, but I still found it quit

Meeting Minutes from yesterday - Lots of tasks open for volunteers!

2013-09-08 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi all, We discussed a bunch of interesting ideas yesterday. I know a lot of you could not attend, so feel free to throw in new ideas, comments and whatever comes to mind. There are a lot of ideas that require people to commit to make them a reality. I've marked them with a big "VOLUNTEER NEEDE

Re: IRC meeting this Saturday

2013-09-06 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Laura Arjona wrote: > I know that "it's just a meeting" but what do you think about sending > the meeting announcement to some other debian mailing lists? I'm > thinking for example on -publicity, -users... Not for this meeting, since part of what I'd like us

IRC meeting this Saturday

2013-09-03 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hey all, I'm interested in discussing more ideas of what we could do as Debian Women, to promote getting more women into Debian. We've had some ideas here on the list, but I think we are lacking some real-time discussion. So, I propose that we have an IRC meeting to discuss ongoing things relate

Re: Asking about what's going on with the mentoring program

2013-09-02 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 12:37 PM, myr wrote: > maybe all the mentors could just keep themselves available in a chat > room where mentees can ask questions etc. Building up a closer > interaction with only some of them, should then happen spontaneously. This was a bit of what the #debian-women

Re: Asking about what's going on with the mentoring program

2013-09-02 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, Lesley, thanks a lot for the reply and for handling the mentoring process even though it seems that it's not being as successful as we would like it to be. On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:26 AM, lesleyb wrote: > The mentoring program is yet again also lacking mentors. I didn't know this. In the p

What do you think about a youtube series?

2013-08-30 Thread Margarita Manterola
My little suvey hasn't had many answers yet, but one suggestion has been to create a youtube channel with a series about doing work in Debian, that would help people getting the ropes. I think this is an interesting idea, although I'm not 100% convinced that it would actually work. In order for i

An interesting site and interesting article

2013-08-27 Thread Margarita Manterola
I found this article about how the "math is not for girls" prejudice is already present since second grade (in the US, the situation is different across countries): http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314091642.htm It cites a website called project implicit that has some interesting te

Contacting latest package contributors

2013-08-25 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, This week I reviewed the list of maintainers and DDs that we keep at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen/Projects/Statistics, I was only able to add a couple of names, since the last review done by Francesca in 2012. We are currently only able to find out about package contributions and DD ac

Re: Outreach Program for Women: next round

2013-08-22 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Mònica Ramírez Arceda wrote: > Past round, the first one that Debian participated, coincided with the > GSoC project, so we took advantage of their projects and mentors. Rounds > that OPW don't coincide with GSoC will need more work because we need to > find

Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-16 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, We had a small chat today with people that were interested in the topic. I wanted to have this mini-debconf later this year, but we learned that there's going to be a mini-debconf in Cambridge in mid November, and the mini-debconf in Paris is also likely to happen end of 2013 or beginning of

Fighting Impostor Syndrome

2013-08-16 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, One of the things that came up during the DebConf talk on Women in Debian is that a lot of women (and men as well) are affected by impostor syndrome. This is when you feel that you are not good enough to "be here" (wherever here is, Debian, FOSS, your job, etc). I've personally been affected

Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-15 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > The way they do that is manifold, and we might want to try some or all > of them in the context of DebConf, depending on the available > resources. Here is a non-exhaustive list (I'll add more as soon as I > recall them :-)): This

Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-15 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Katherine Cancelado wrote: > I think is possible, but, I have many question about this: > - The mini-debconf will be international? or local (country)? The idea is to make it international. Of course, a mini debconf means that it won't be as long as a DebCo

Re: USA Science and Engineering Festival

2013-08-15 Thread Margarita Manterola
HI, > Danielle Rubio dijo [Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:56:39AM -0700]: >> I'm with the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington DC. We are >> reaching out to Debian Women to see if your organization would like to be >> involved in our upcoming festival in April. Could you please send me a >>

Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-15 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hey all, After discussing the women in Debian issue with many people here in DebConf, I've been thinking that it would be a nice idea to organise a mini-debconf where all the speakers are women. This would be a mini-debconf targeted to everyone, like other mini-debconf, with only this specific di

Re: Hi.

2013-08-14 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Diane Trout wrote: > I've been a long time debian / ubuntu user. I'm a developer / sys admin > working for a university. Recent changes with ubuntu encouraged me to switch > back to Debian. Yay for going back Debian :). > I recently managed to upgrade the KD

Re: Summary of the DW BOF session at DebConf11

2011-08-17 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Kevin Mark wrote: > Have you seen this? > https://openhatch.org/missions/ Wow! I hadn't seen that, although I've been to openhatch's site in the past. It might be new. I think it's a very cool idea!! -- Besos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: introducing myself

2011-08-17 Thread Margarita Manterola
Oi! On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Yasodara Cordova wrote: > I'm a brazilian interface designer, teacher of the University of Brasilia, > in Brazil. I'm debian user since my ppc stopped working with MacOS (thanks > apple), about 3 years ago. Benvinda Yasadora! > I would love to join the commu

Summary of the DW BOF session at DebConf11

2011-08-16 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! There was a BOF session at DebConf11 related to Debian Women, kindly held by Meike, which I attended virtually thanks to the awesome work of the Video Team, and the help of the participants when the video link had gone down. The minutes are available by using gobby-0.5 to connect to gobby.deb

Re: New Debian developer: madamezou

2011-06-09 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: >>From: Francesca Ciceri Yay! Congratulazioni Francesca! :) -- Besos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

Re: Build It Event report

2011-05-09 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Erinn Clark wrote: > What do you think we can do to improve this? Maybe more intra-community > outreach (by which I mean the general women-in-free-software community), like > announcing things on geekfeminism.org, linuxchix lists, etc.? Yes, I think we should do

Build It Event report

2011-05-09 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hey all! The two sessions of the Build It Event were held on Saturday, in both of them we had an audience of 10 to 15 "talking" people, I don't know how many other people were following but not commenting. Both logs are available at: http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-women/2011/debian-women.2011-

Re: Building packages from source tutorial - announcement RFC

2011-05-04 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Meike Reichle wrote: > I got another answer on the announcement. Will there be an IRC log > afterwards? I've got someone here who cannot take part in the session but is > very interested in it. Yes, of course. Last year with the IRC sessions it was done with Meet

Re: Debian Women Offers Building Packages from Source Tutorial

2011-05-03 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > As you might know, I've been working on a Debian packaging tutorial[0]. > > [0] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=640 > > I was wondering if you were working on your own set of documents for > this tutorial, and if it would make sense to

Building packages from source tutorial

2011-05-02 Thread Margarita Manterola
Are you enthusiastic about Debian and thinking about contributing? We want to guide you with the basics. We are convinced that there are a lot of people out there that want to get involved with Free Software but don't know where to start. For Debian, the most common task you'll do as a contributo

Re: Building packages from source tutorial - announcement RFC

2011-05-02 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! > I put the announce on twitter, #debianwomen tag created. I have used the > above link as I couldn't find anything on women.debian.org, maybe it'd be > good to include the announcement on the website. I've added a wiki page on: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen/BuildItEvent I've also incl

Re: Building packages from source tutorial - announcement RFC

2011-05-01 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Tássia Camões wrote: > Another idea about this IRC event would be to have additional channels > per language, such as debian-woman-pt, just in case people cannot > comunicate very well in english. I could be online to answer questions > in portuguese. What do you

Re: D-W at DebConf

2011-04-29 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Meike Reichle wrote: > I've seen some people mentioning a DW event at DebConf, that is, that it > would be nice to have one again. Unless I've missed something there were no > volunteers yet. I am planning to attend DebConf, so I volunteer to take care > of that.

Re: Building packages from source tutorial - announcement RFC

2011-04-29 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, Thanks to Asheesh for some editing and generally friendlying the text. Here's an updated version, most probably the final version unless anyone has any other comments. I will need help with spreading this, so if anyone wants to try and do some "outreach", it'd be great. *-*-*-* Are you ent

Re: Questions and comments regarding Debian Women

2011-04-25 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > Now, as I'm saying this, I actually do have a sponsor in Debian who's been > pestering me about DM, but I keep telling him "no" since I feel like I ought > to have more community involvement (...and actually have a working Debian > system

Re: Questions and comments regarding Debian Women

2011-04-25 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi Monica, 2011/4/25 Mònica Ramírez : > About becoming a DD, I'm not trying to be a DD for two reasons: the > first one is that I don't feel sure enough with the required skills, I think this is a common issue for us women. The geek feminism wiki names this the "Impostor Syndrome" [1]. I guess

Re: New round of IRC sessions

2011-04-25 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! This mail went un-answered a month ago, so I'm replying both to give my feedback and to try to revive it, cause I think it's really important. On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Francesca Ciceri wrote: > First of all, I'd like to ask you what is your feelings about doing it, your > impression (

Building packages from source tutorial - announcement RFC

2011-04-25 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! This is a draft announcement for the tutorial, comments are still very much welcome. It can also be edited directly at: http://whiteboard.debian.net/dw_buildit_announcement.wb?cols=75 * - * - * - * - The DW project and OpenHatch project are pleased to invite everybody to a new "Build It" ev

Debian Women "Build it" event

2011-04-23 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi there, The people of OpenHatch have recently organized an IRC event called "Build it" [2] explaining to new people how to build a certain program. This has been shown to be quite successful in bootstrapping contributions [3]. After some talk about this on IRC with different people, we came to

Project for someone with time and will: website update

2011-04-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hey, Another project that needs people to take care of is updating the website. As Francisca already said in another mail, our website is currently very outdated regarding how it looks, and most of our profiles are also very outdated. On IRC it was mentioned that it might be a good idea to migra

Project for someone with time and will: IRC <-> identi.ca bot

2011-04-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hey, If there's someone around with the time and will to do this, it seems it would be a good idea to have a bot that connects the #debian-women IRC channel and the !debianwomen tag on identi.ca. This would mean that what gets posted with !debianwomen in identi.ca appears in the channel, and /msg

Re: Updating stats, thinking about what to do

2011-04-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Margarita Manterola wrote: > At some point I had planned to mail all the non-DD first uploaders, to > find out if they have some opinion to share about their experience, > and how things could be improved, but I never did it.  I'm going to do >

Re: Updating stats, thinking about what to do

2011-04-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > We seem to be having a reasonable upwards trend in the number of first > uploads, even though not as good as it was between 2003-2005. Well, it's always going to be upwards, since it's counting first uploads and not active uploaders, that wo

Updating stats, thinking about what to do

2011-04-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hey all, Today, after chatting a bit with Meike, I took the time to update the stats and the graph located at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen/Statistics Since I did it last year, we've only had 2 new female uploaders, and Francesca has started the process to become a non-uploading DD (which wi

Re: Knitters and Coders: separated at birth?

2011-04-13 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Danese Cooper wrote: > danese on Ravelry, as in life ;-). I've written quite a lot about knitting in > public, although for some reason the Wikipedia community won't leave those > references on my page :-(. So, after the whole Wikip. thing, I ended up follo

Re: DebConf11

2011-01-24 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Valentina wrote: > I would like to aks is anybody coming to DebConf 11? Debian Conference is > the annual Debian developers meeting, an event filled with coding parties, > discussions and workshops - all of them highly technical in nature will be > held in, B

Re: Sound Problem, Debian, VirtualBox, Guest: WVista

2010-09-26 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi Petra On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Petra Kubina wrote: > I can not solve a sound problem . when running sound check, audio cds or > videos I still have a cracking noise in my guest system. Sound in host > runs fine. Welcome to the Debian Women mailing list. However, this list is not ded

Re: great to see "bits from DW" in the Debian news

2010-09-09 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Helen Faulkner wrote: > It's great to see "bits from the Debian Women project" in the Debian project > news [1].  Thanks to the people involved in writing this (yeah, I know, it's > dreadful, but I am so out of the loop I am not actually certain who did this > work

Next IRC Meeting: Saturday 4th Sept. 21:00 UTC

2010-09-03 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! This is just a re-iteration of Francesca's mail, so that it doesn't get lost in a long thread. The next IRC meeting will be on Saturday (tomorrow) at 21:00 UTC. To check what time that is on your timezone, you can do: date -s "2010-09-04 21:00:00 UTC" The agenda will be: 1. wiki pages: upda

Re: [proposal] IRC Meeting

2010-09-03 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Lesley Binks wrote: > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?day=3&month=9&year=2010&p1=0&p2=196&p3=176&p4=770 > > shows the time differences between  UTC and Perth (Australia), San > Diego (West Coast, USA) and New Delhi (india) > > So 2200 UTC

IRC Training Sessions

2010-08-26 Thread Margarita Manterola
HI! I'm going to start taking the action items from the minutes one by one, with a few days of separation, so that more people get to discuss them. So here we go about IRC Training Sessions. There's a wiki page [1], but it hasn't seen too much activity. Please, everyone take a look at it, and ch

Re: resource availability and (naive) ideas

2010-08-26 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! Thanks zack for the input :) On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > - d-w meeting? I think that there is nothing as an in person meeting to >  restart activities and poor enthusiasm into past and future >  participants. I'm about to announce a general "debian sprint pro

Re: Trying to get conclusions from Debian Women Statistics

2010-08-26 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > if those first uploaders keep contributing without turning into DDs or > DMs, or if they just get tired and go away. Would it be possible to > also have some data comparing the dates of the first upload and last > upload, and maybe the number

Re: Statistics of female participation in packing in Debian

2010-08-24 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > That might be feasible for translations (though limiting to > translations "belonging" to Debian is sometimes tricky), I'd appreciate your help in getting a list, even if it's not perfect. > Finally, I would here probably avoid listing

Re: d-w wiki page

2010-08-24 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Francesca Ciceri wrote: > as marga suggested in a previous mail, today I've applied the Team Template to > our wiki page. I wasn't sure about all the entries in the template, so I > inserted only some of them and comment the rest: please, take a look and feel > f

Statistics of female participation in packing in Debian

2010-08-24 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! For the piece of news I'm preparing about DW, I compiled a statistic of female participation in Debian. You can see the results at: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen/Statistics The graph is only about packaging (first uploads, DD accounts, DM keys). It'd be nice to compile similar lists of

Minutes from the IRC meeting today

2010-08-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! We had a very successful meeting today, where we spoke about many things that might help getting Debian Women back on track. Here's a summary of what we talked. Please feel free to contribute suggestions and comments about any of the contents here. Visibility: We've become very silent, and

IRC Meeting this weekend: Saturday August 21th 21:00 UTC

2010-08-20 Thread Margarita Manterola
So, the doodle poll revealed that we indeed have very different schedules. I've tried to choose one that would allow a number of people to attend. So, if you can, please join #debian-women on irc.oftc.net, tomorrow at 21:00 UTC. The agenda would be: 1) The mentoring process, the current status

Re: Let's put some energy back into Debian Women

2010-08-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
I'm replying to myself because I didn't want my ideas to contaminate other people's ideas when sending their suggestions :) On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Margarita Manterola wrote: > 1) Do you have ideas on activities that we should do in order to get > more women into D

Let's put some energy back into Debian Women

2010-08-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hey! It's been quite a while now since we've had women joining our ranks of Debian Developers/Maintainers/Contributors. I'd like to put some energy back into the Debian Women project. Lars suggested on IRC that we should set a goal, as in: raise the number of female DDs/DMs to some specific numb

Re: a woman has nominated for DPL

2010-03-16 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Helen Faulkner wrote: > I think this is a very significant moment, and demonstrates just how far > Debian has come since the early days of this project.  A few years ago > having a woman run for DPL would have been inconceivable for many people. > > Good on you Ma

About the event I was organizing

2009-09-16 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, The last mail triggered quite a lot of things that I didn't suspect it would trigger. I hope this one doesn't. This is just some feedback of how the event has finally been shaped, after I sent the mail back then. It's going to be held in Buenos Aires, on Saturday December 5th. We are going

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-08-24 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > 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 >> thi

Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-08-20 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! This is not exactly related to Debian, but it came up while talking to another girl about Debian Women. I've been thinking about this for a few days, and I'd like to receive comments or opinions from people here. Feel free to give me your opinion on any of the subjects below. I'm thinking of

Re: hello girlz

2009-07-24 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Alice Ferrazzi wrote: > hello, > i'm alice from italy, So, first of all, welcome! > i want help in debian women project > like in the translation of debian women wiki in italian > or other translation things > now im translating some part of the debian wiki Now,

Re: Ada Lovelace Day - pledge

2009-02-11 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Penny Leach wrote: > "I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in > technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same." > > So what if 1000 other people don't do the same? As Meike said, it's the only way to use pledge

Re: Happy! Congratz!

2008-04-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
YaY! Congrats to both Miriam and Meike! -- Besos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Status of women in Debian

2008-02-04 Thread Margarita Manterola
ntentional, at all. On Jan 26, 2008 2:04 PM, Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > DDs (from newest to oldest): christine, ana, helix, mlt, marga, helen, > > petra, amaya, cmc, sgk. > > DMs: Miriam (hopefully DD soon). > > NMs: Meike (just started), Hanna

Re: Status of women in Debian

2008-01-26 Thread Margarita Manterola
Just for the sake of completeness... On Jan 26, 2008 1:27 PM, Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > like to note quickly the effects of debian-women. Can anyone hook me > > up with the number of women involved in the project, as DDs, DMs, or > > regular cont

Re: Status of women in Debian

2008-01-26 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Jan 26, 2008 9:43 AM, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in preparing my state of the project address at LCA on Monday, I'd > like to note quickly the effects of debian-women. Can anyone hook me > up with the number of women involved in the project, as DDs, DMs, or > regular contribut

Re: Debian's Freenode IRC channels

2008-01-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Jan 12, 2008 5:04 AM, Melissa Draper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As part of my NY Resolutions, I decided it was time to get more involved > in Debian, which involves hanging out in Debian channels more. Apart > from rejoining the OFTC Debian channels, I also joined the Freenode ones > since the

Re: Debian's Freenode IRC channels

2008-01-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Jan 12, 2008 8:36 AM, Melissa Draper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't recall claiming that I was promised that there were no jerks. I > was not promised anything to that degree. It was merely indicated to me > often that Debian-Women had achieved what Ubuntu-Women had not. To me, > Ubuntu-W

Re: information

2008-01-04 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi ninib! Welcome to the Debian Women list. On Jan 4, 2008 8:52 AM, ninib man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm very interested in "debian women project"; I saw by chance your web page > when i searched if there is women interested in Linux and free software like > me. I' m from madagascar, I use

Re: Hi!

2007-10-23 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 10/23/07, Celina Jorge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My name is Celina Jorge. > I join this list few weeks ago, and just could introduce myself today. > Here, in Brazil, I'm in the Debian-br-pe group, and want to learn more about > Debian GNU/Linux and the processes involved on it. Oi Celina!

Re: BSP this weekend

2007-10-01 Thread Margarita Manterola
Lezza is asking for support on burning cd-images. I've already replied to this message (I'm guessing it was crossposted to more than one place). I'm redirecting to the appropiate list. On 10/1/07, Lezza Balanky Korvayeva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Saludos::: Hola. El motivo de mi correo es para

IRC packaging tutorial in Spanish

2007-08-25 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! I'll be giving an IRC tutorial in Spanish, about making Debian packages, in #debian-ar at irc.oftc.net, tomorrow, Sunday August 26th, at 20:00 GMT. It's going to be quite a basic tutorial, but if you have friends who speak Spanish and want to learn how to package, you can direct them there.

Re: [OT] About Computer Careers

2007-07-30 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 7/16/07, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From my (limited, US centric) experience, degrees are pretty much how > you get past initial HR screening; no one actually pays much attention > to it when you actually get to interview stages or the experienced > based portion of hiring. Thi

Postponing the BSP :-\

2007-07-20 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! I'm sorry to have to do this, but seeing that I didn't get any offers for the tutorials I wanted for the BSP, and that many people seem to be on holidays during July and August, it seems sensible to postpone the BSP till there's more people around. The suggested dates would be the first week

Re: [OT] About Computer Careers

2007-07-11 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 7/10/07, Nacho Barrientos Arias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Basically, I feel that there's a vacuum of career options for people > who already know all the "introduction" parts, and wish to delve more > deeply into the development of low-level code (kernel, X, libs, etc). Note that not ever

Re: [OT] About Computer Careers

2007-07-11 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 7/10/07, Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 01:58:49PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > I've been analizing the different career options related to Computers > available in Argentina, [...] Do you mean career development (ie, courses that m

[OT] About Computer Careers

2007-07-10 Thread Margarita Manterola
I've been analizing the different career options related to Computers available in Argentina, and I've found out, not surprisingly, that they all aim for people developing end-user applications, mainly with Java or .NET. Some of them do include, "Introduction to Operating Systems", "Introduction

Debian-Women Bug Squashing - Update

2007-07-05 Thread Margarita Manterola
afternoon, going on through Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th. == Draft Schedule == * July 27 - 19:00 UTC Selected Bug List published. This list will be prepared using usertags. * July 27 - 21:00 UTC * Tutorial: Intoduction to BSPs and Bug Fixing. * Given by: Margarita Manterola * July 28 -

Debian-Women Bug Squashing

2007-06-28 Thread Margarita Manterola
One of the things we talked about in our meeting in Edinburgh, at DebConf7 was trying to have more technical group activities. As a fan of Bug Squashing myself, that's what I came up with. If anyone has a suggestion for another technical group activity that we might be able to hold, I'm sure we

Re: DW meeting Thursday in EDI

2007-06-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 6/21/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is that one of the rooms with AV? If no, is there any digital device to create a podcast (camera with audio)? Anyway, hope you get some intersting stuff discussed... Since it's a very informal gathering, we'd rather not have it on tape, and onl

Re: Debian Women anniversary June 21st at Debconf

2007-05-28 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 5/27/07, Erinn Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So how many of you out there are interested in this? How many will be at Debconf? Let me know of any ideas you have! I'm excited. :) I'll be there for the party and the BOF. -- Besos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: women in IT (in AU)

2006-11-04 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 10/31/06, Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, so now I want to know: is there anyone on this list who works in IT who is in a department/organisation/group where more than half the people are women? If so, what is the size of the group? Before becoming a Free Software activist, I

New female DD

2006-06-14 Thread Margarita Manterola
Marcela Tiznado is the newest Debian Developer: https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php#newmaint With this happening, we can claim that in Argentina there are more female DD than male DDs. Congrats to Marcela. -- Besos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Bug squashing on Good Friday

2006-04-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! I'm organizing a small BSP with the people of my local Debian Group, which will take place on Good Friday. So, I thought I might invite anyone else who might be interested in bug-squashing during this Friday, even if we are miles away, to join #debian-bugs on OFTC and work with us into making

Re: list statistics

2006-01-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! On 1/19/06, Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the Debian Women project meeting your needs? How could it do so better? I guess it is... Although the mailing list is a bit "quiet", I tend to ask my questions on IRC, and there's always someone who volunteers an answer. Also, I s

Re: DebConf6

2005-11-23 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 11/23/05, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Agreed, but how about a short overview of what DW has done for > Debian apart from integrating women more... and end with a session > discussion future directions where DW could make a difference? I guess we could hold that as an unofficia

Re: DebConf6

2005-11-23 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 11/23/05, Meike Reichle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we should do the same / a similar thing at DC6. Get a bunch of > people together who give good talks on whatever they want to talk about, > but make them known as D-W members (Tshirt, funny hat, forehead tattoo > ...). In this way we'd

Re: Video from Erinn and Magni's talk "Debian Women and Women in Free Software" at Debconf5 (URL)

2005-07-31 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! > BTW, is it planned to provide these videos in OGG/Theora format > eventually? I think it would be really neat to have those available in > a truely Free codec, and word is that OGG/Theora might even be better > quality/compression wise. This was discussed on the debconf5-event list: http:

Re: IRC relocation

2005-07-30 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 7/30/05, Erinn Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Due to Freenode's harassment about the tor ban on #debian-women, we have > relocated to OFTC. You can connect to irc.oftc.net and /join > #debian-women now. If someone else uses dircproxy, as I do, you'll need to set up a new "connection" with

Re: Various things (wiki)

2005-07-26 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 7/22/05, Erinn Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, since language support is a recurring theme and wiki.d.o doesn't > exist yet, we may be able to have some input on which wiki software > would be preferable. The idea was to go with Moin, but if there's > something that would work better i

Re: Various things

2005-07-26 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 7/21/05, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Making NM more of a mentoring+monitoring thing, instead of The Essay > > Test From Hell, would be a Great Thing. It appears that other AMs > > aren't entirely against the idea, either. > > People keep complaining about the Essay Test fro

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