<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">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.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>cheers,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Dinda</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 23, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Elizabeth Bevilacqua wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Forwarding this for dinda since she's having trouble posting to the list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">at the moment.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Elizabeth Bevilacqua // <A href="mailto:Lyz@PrincessLeia.com">Lyz@PrincessLeia.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.princessleia.com">http://www.princessleia.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 37px; text-indent: -37px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px; "><B></B><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 37px; text-indent: -37px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>From: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"B.A. Lopez" <<A href="mailto:dinda@mac.com">dinda@mac.com</A>></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 34px; text-indent: -34px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Date: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">April 23, 2007 12:17:07 PM CDT</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 21px; text-indent: -21px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>To: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Elizabeth Bevilacqua <<A href="mailto:lyz@princessleia.com">lyz@princessleia.com</A>></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 50px; text-indent: -50px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Subject: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><B>Please forward to UW</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi folks,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>just wanted to remind everyone that there will be two sessions on the Ubuntu-Women Project during this week's Ubuntu Open Week.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>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.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>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.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Logs will also be posted up after the session.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>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.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">More info on Open Week can be found at:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Lots of great sessions this week so please stop in when you have a chance.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">regards,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dinda</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">ubuntu-women mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:ubuntu-women@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-women@lists.ubuntu.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-women">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-women</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>