[UbuntuWomen] Ubuntu Open Week: Ubuntu-Women Presentations

[B.A. Lopez]

Today's session was very well received (imho) and there were tons of  
great questions as well some classic examples in the ubuntu-classroom- 
chat channel of exactly why we still need this project.  There will  
be logs of the presentations posted up soon and I hope there is a log  
somewhere of the chat channels as well.  Much of the early comments  
from surprised folks of the "there are women in ubuntu?  wtf?" flavor  
and other less than encouraging non-examples of welcoming behavior.   
But the majority were great and I hope to see more of you there in  
the discussion channel for the next session on 26 April at 1500 UTC.

I guess it still surprises that 1.) so many men seem genuinely  
shocked to discover there are women in IT/FOSS/Ubuntu/IRC, 2.) that  
many folks still think "let's make it pink" and that will help  
encourage women to use Ubuntu or even worse and I'm paraphrasing in  
both cases, "Let's make it simpler to use b/c so many women are not  
interested  in technical things/Linux/IT/etc.."  I don't need it  
"simpler"  I need it better and better does not always equal simpler,  
it means better.  But before I get on  a rant,  I'm going to go track  
down the session logs so I can post some of the better questions to  
the group as I really do need your input.

cheers,

Dinda




On Apr 23, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Elizabeth Bevilacqua wrote:

> Forwarding this for dinda since she's having trouble posting to the  
> list
> at the moment.
>
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> Elizabeth Bevilacqua // Lyz at PrincessLeia.com
> http://www.princessleia.com
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> From: "B.A. Lopez" <dinda at mac.com>
> Date: April 23, 2007 12:17:07 PM CDT
> To: Elizabeth Bevilacqua <lyz at princessleia.com>
> Subject: Please forward to UW
>
>
> Hi folks,
>   just wanted to remind everyone that there will be two sessions on  
> the Ubuntu-Women Project during this week's Ubuntu Open Week.  The  
> first session is today, Monday 23 April at 1900 UTC in #ubuntu- 
> classroom and the second will be held Thursday, 26 April at 1500  
> UTC.  I was asked by Jono Bacon to give a short overview of the  
> project and then we will have a Question & Answer session with  
> question coming from the #ubuntu-classroom-chat channel.  Logs will  
> also be posted up after the session.  If anyone has any comments/ 
> additions to what you think needs to be covered in the session,  
> please feel free to send them to me.
>
> More info on Open Week can be found at:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek
>
> Lots of great sessions this week so please stop in when you have a  
> chance.
>
> regards,
>
> Dinda
>
>
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