[UbuntuWomen] Ubuntu Open Week: Ubuntu-Women Presentations
B.A. Lopez
dinda at mac.com
Tue Apr 24 00:20:20 UTC 2007
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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