Many thanks to Myriam for the heads-up. First of all, may I congratulate Myriam and fellow volunteers at the first Rails Girls Galway - it was a very successful event with +60 enthusiastic and energetic female participants. One could hardly believe that there was a gender issue in free/open source software communities when seeing so many active women.
Just want to clarify that I did not co-found Debian women; I have been an observer of this group since its conception. This is a significant group - there are many interesting anecdotes on which one can draw when talking about social dynamics and gender issues in free/open source software communities. But, really, the honour and hard work of setting this group up and of keeping it going belong to Debian contributors and developers. The slides I presented can be found at https://speakerdeck.com/hiyashi/open-source-software As always, comments are welcome. Cheers. Best wishes, Yuwei On 27 May 2013 12:25, myr <iam...@email.com> wrote: > Hi Llanos, > > I actually sent to this list a similar email a month ago or so, to promote > the Rails Girls workshop that was held in Galway, Ireland, last week. > > Yuwei Lin, from Debian Women, gave a lightning talk about women in FLOSS: > http://blog.railsgirls.com/**post/51465763345/women-coding-** > with-rails-girls-galway<http://blog.railsgirls.com/post/51465763345/women-coding-with-rails-girls-galway> > > Small workshops working on developing small Debian patches (although > targeting people with some programming experience, unlike Rails Girls) > could be a good idea to attract more female developers in the Debian > community, as well. > > > All the best, > Myriam > > > On 27/05/13 12:14, Llanos wrote: > >> Apologies if this is a bit off topic as it's not Debian related but >> it's women and open source technologies related so I thought it could >> be relevant for some women (or men) on this list >> >> http://railsgirls.com/ >> >> They deliver workshops and organize coding sessions to help women to >> get programming ruby on rails. There's lots all over the place: >> >> http://railsgirls.com/events >> >> It seems it was born in Finland, but nowadays is global and non-profit >> volunteer community. I think it's a very nice initiative to help women >> in IT. >> >> Cheers >> Llanos >> >> -- >> Llanos >> >> >> > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > debian-women-request@lists.**debian.org<debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/**51a342b8.50...@email.com<http://lists.debian.org/51a342b8.50...@email.com> > >
