[UbuntuWomen] Linuxfest Northwest 2011

[Valorie Zimmerman]

While at OSCON, one of the kindly fellows from the LFNW booth came
over to talk with me about speaking at LFNW, but ended up asking me to
try to put together a track about women in Linux. I told him that
sounded a bit dated, and how about a track about inclusiveness in
general? However, I don't know how popular that would be to the LFNW
crowd.

He also urged to me meet up with the women at the Girls in Tech booth
across the hall, which I did. While the women in the booth didn't seem
that excited about participating in LFNW, they did give me Ivo Lukas'
email address, and so she is included in this email, as are Linuxchix,
Seattle Linuxchix, Ubuntu-Women, and the LFNW list.

I'm eager to get thoughts rumbling around, and make a definite
proposal to the LFNW organizers. However, this is entirely new
territory for me, so I would appreciate ideas, cautions, enthusiasm,
etc. from anyone to whom I've cross-posted. As a stirring stick to
this cauldron of thought, I'll toss in a link from MichelleQ via Rikki
Kite: http://mashable.com/2010/07/28/developer-hacker-women-twitter/ .
Especially look at the links at the end of the article -- there are So
Many Women we could ask to speak.

Looking forward to lots of advice,

Valorie
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