Nicoya Helm:
> In light of the recent threads about female hackers and women and schooling,
> etc., I thought I'd mention that March 8th is International Women's Day.
> Does anyone know of any cool groups/people doing anything with regard to
> women in technology in celebration of that day? It seems like it'd be the
> perfect day (or week or weekend) for some linuxchix chapters to reach out to
> younger women and girls in their community - maybe sponsor a box-building
> day (help with installations of linux, etc) or something like that.
At my University they planned a Linux installation thing for women about
two years ago. I don't know how successful it was, the organizing was a
bit...uhmm...unorganized (actually I'm pretty embarrassed myself since I
was the one really backing out...), but it might be repeated this year
if we/someone manage to gather som people to do it. The plan last time
was simply to borrow a couple of PCs from dept. of computer science and
spend the day installing Redhat on one and demonstrating Linux on the
other, plus handing out/selling RH copies to anyone interested.
(It was actually the student priest assistant who organized it (i.e. got
the idea and promoted it in pamphlets etc), she is a real geek girl
herself (with a Playstation in her bed))
By the way, I plan to make a LinuxChix chapter in Trondheim, Norway.
Anyone from around here close to me? :)
Magni :)
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