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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. <br>
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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. <br>
<br>
Paula<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/10/12 17:31, Phill Whiteside
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<div>if you let me know what you need for your Ubuntu sessions,
I'll see if I can sort something out for you.</div>
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On 15 October 2012 17:12, Paula Graham <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div>On 15/10/12 15:20, Alan Bell wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Hi all, <br>
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: <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.flossie.org/?page_id=596"
target="_blank">http://www.flossie.org/?page_id=596</a>
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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. <br>
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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 :) <br>
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Alan. <br>
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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: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/4474780188"
target="_blank">http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/4474780188</a>
- 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:
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.flossie.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/course_outline_and_plan_LIVE.pdf"
target="_blank">http://www.flossie.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/course_outline_and_plan_LIVE.pdf</a><br>
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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). <br>
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Happy to give more info - email <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:info@flossie.org" target="_blank">info@flossie.org</a>
:) <br>
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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? <br>
<br>
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. <br>
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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 ;) <br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"> <br>
Paula </font></span></div>
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