[UbuntuWomen] Fwd: [Announce] Call for presentations: LinixChix women's mini-conference at linux.conf.au 2007

[B.A. Lopez]

	From: 	  mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org
	Date: 	October 23, 2006 1:14:40 AM CDT
	Subject: 	[Announce] Call for presentations: LinixChix women's	mini- 
conference at linux.conf.au 2007
	To: 	  announce at linuxchix.org, linuxchix at sydney.linuxchix.org,  
melbourne at linuxchix.org

The LinuxChix women's mini-conference at linux.conf.au 2007 is  
calling for
presentations by women on both Free Software technical topics and  
general
topics of general interest to women involved in Free Software or  
working in
IT.

About the miniconference

The LinuxChix women's mini-conference will be held on Tuesday, 16  
January,
2007 at the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia, as  
part of
the annual linux.conf.au Free Software conference running from 15–20
January, 2007. All attendees of linux.conf.au are welcome to attend the
women's miniconference, which will highlight the technical  
achievements of
women in Free Software. The mini-conference welcomes attendees and  
speakers
from other women's advocacy and development groups including Systers,  
Fedora
Women and Debian Women among others.

The mini-conference has several 45 talks slots available. Speakers  
should
plan to present for 30 minutes; the remaining time will be devoted to
discussion. All technical talks should be on Free (Open Source) Software
related topics.

Abstracts for talk proposals should be submitted to
miniconf-submission at puzzling.org by Friday, November 10, 2006.

The miniconference will also have some shorter (5–10 minute)  
demonstration
and lightning talk slots available, you are welcome to email us to  
express
an interest in giving one of these, but they do not have to be  
submitted at
this time.

Please see http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Miniconfs/Linuxchix for more
information about the women's mini-conference and
http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Miniconfs/Linuxchix/CFP for full details  
of the
call for presentations.

Feel free to forward this mail to any women or groups you think would be
interested.

About linux.conf.au 2007

linux.conf.au is Australia's annual technical conference for the Open  
Source
and Free Software developer community. Now in its eighth year,  
linux.conf.au
is regarded as one of the premier global FLOSS technical events and  
attracts
many international open source software developers and users.

Returning to Sydney from the 15th to 20th of January, linux.conf.au  
2007 is
supported by our Emperor sponsors, HP and IBM, and hosted at the  
University
of New South Wales. For more information about linux.conf.au 2007  
visit our
website at: http://lca2007.linux.org.au/

About Linux Australia

Linux Australia exists to serve and promote the Australian Linux and  
Open
Source community. The organisation aims to do this best by taking
enthusiasms within the community, such as FOSS issues, projects,  
education,
advocacy just to name a few, and help them flourish, to succeed. The
lifeblood of this organisation is the people in the community, and Linux
Australia strives to be both relevant and useful to the community.  
For more
details about Linux Australia visit: http://www.linux.org.au/
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