[UbuntuWomen] Ubuntu Women Session during Ubuntu Open Week

[Elizabeth Krumbach]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Elizabeth Krumbach <lyz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Ubuntu Open Week, a series of IRC (Internet Relay Chat) based
> workshops, is happening Wednesday May 2nd through Friday May 4th:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek
>
> This is an event that has evolved over time and we have had sessions
> about the Ubuntu Women project several times over the years. Our early
> sessions were essentially "how to treat women in your community"
> sessions that sought to discuss some of the problems many women have
> faced when getting involved with open source and help members of the
> community recognize that women are participating and how to treat us
> with respect.
>
> These days, the problems many women face in open source are well-known
> and documented, and during our last session run by Amber Graner for
> the Lucid release in 2010 she moved the approach to be more of a
> status update on the project itself.
>
> On Friday at 16:00 UTC[0] I will be continuing the example that Amber
> set by hosting a session about our project and outlining some of our
> current projects, goals completed this cycle and some ideas for the
> future.
>
> Just like for Career Days, to participate you'll want to join
> #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat on irc.freenode.net, this
> is also available via web-based chat:
> http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-classroom%2Cubuntu-classroom-chat&uio=d4
>
> [0] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20120504T16

Just as a quick reminder, this is coming up in about 13 hours :)

-- 
Elizabeth Krumbach // Lyz // pleia2
http://www.princessleia.com