[UbuntuWomen] Announcements from March 02, 2010 Ubuntu Women Project Team Meeting

[Amber Graner]

Here are the announcements [1] from the UW Project Team Meeting On
Tuesday, March 2, 2010.

 Announcements

***SCaLE 8x [1] - http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/

Many thanks to the members of the Ubuntu Women Project team who
attended, participated, and contributed to the success of SCaLE 8x.
Emma Jane Hogbin, Amber Graner, Akkana Peck, Rikki Kite, Michelle Hall
all spoke at either the WIOS, Ubucon, or main SCaLE event.  Also it
was great having the LinuxChix [2] LA group there as well - many UWP
members are also Linuxchix members - The Linuxchix women I had the
opportunity to meet are awesome!  Many thanks to Gareth Greenaway and
all the organizers of SCaLE8x for their successful efforts in making
it possible for people it experience so much of what FOSS has to
offer.

***nternational Women's Day Competition [3] Voting [4] - ends march 7th, 2400UTC

Reminder that submissions to  the competition that was launched in
January to celebrate International Womens's Day is closed. Now is the
time to vote on which "How I discovered Ubuntu!" story you like best.
Thanks to Melissa Draper being the driving force behind this
competition and the for writing the voting application. Please send
thanks and appreciation to her for all her hard work on this
competition.  So if you haven't voted yet do so before 2400 UTC on
March 7th, as winners will be decided on March 8th. Check out
Melissa's reminder on the The Fridge as well [5]

****Ubuntu Women Day in conjunction with International Women's Day

After bringing this suggestion to the UW mailing list [6] and having
discussing it during our team meeting the team felt that this year
2010 we will "promote the heck out of" ADA LOVELACE DAY [7] and
encourage those folks in the Ubuntu Community to highlight women in
the community on March 24th, 2010 in honor of Ada Lovelace. If you
have a blog let everyone know about Ada Lovelace day and encourage
them to let the world know  "Ada Lovelace Day is an international day
of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw
attention to the achievements of women in technology and science."

****Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week[8] ongoing  - Reminder not to
forget that there are a few more days of UODW March 1st -6th, 2010 in
#ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat.  "Ubuntu Opportunistic
Developer Week is a week of sessions aimed at enabling and inspiring
opportunistic developers to write applications that scratch their
itches. Our goal is to give all attendees a taste of the wide variety
of tools on the Ubuntu platform that can be used to create awesome
applications, and to showcase some applications that have been created
and explain how they were put together."
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*****Events - http://fossevents.org/

Take a look at the Calendar and see if there are events in your area,
or ones that you want to submit talks to, or maybe you see and event
that would be a good fit for another member of the team, encourage
them to go.  Let's see if we attend events like SCaLE and give people
an Ubuntu Women Business Card, or if you have a poster in your booth,
if number of women using and contributing to the Ubuntu Project
increases. Thiscalendar is not only a great resource for anyone in the
open source community who wants to see what is happening in the world
of FOSS, but also a great resource if you are an open source event
planner, LoCo, and LUG team - add your events to the Calendar.

Thank you!
Amber


[1] - http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/
[2] - http://www.linuxchix.org/
[3] - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-January/004114.html
[4] - http://elkbuntu.net/ubuntuwomen
[5] - http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1990
[6] - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-women/2010-February/0
[7] - http://findingada.com/
[8] - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpportunisticDeveloperWeek


[1] - http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/20100302/Agenda

-- 
Amber Graner//akgraner//
http://amber.redvoodoo.org/
http://www.ubuntu-user.com/Online/Blogs/Amber-Graner-You-in-Ubuntu


Just me Amber.

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but
only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.
Linus Torvalds