female_package_maintainers ++

2005-08-25 Thread Christian Perrier
I'm glad to announce here that Debian now has a new woman with a package in the archive...namely Christine Spang. In late July, I sponsored the upload of the gquilt package, a GTK interface to quilt, the patch management system that rocks (if you use dpatch, just try quilt once, you'll be blasted)

RE: Software Freedom Day -- UPDATE

2005-08-25 Thread Miriam Ruiz
I'll try to help if I can and if I have a connection by then, but I can't promise anything, as I will be in Madrid by then and I don't know even if I will be able to connect for more than reading email. I'll try anyway :) Greetings, Miry ___

Re: Software Freedom Day -- UPDATE

2005-08-25 Thread Helen Faulkner
OK, there is a moral about writing things without proofreading them afterwards. Helen Faulkner wrote: > OK, so this one is my "baby". We will set up a #debian-women-new IRC channel > on > the irc.oftc.org network, running from to 2359 on 10th September. There > may be further administrativ

Re: Software Freedom Day -- UPDATE

2005-08-25 Thread Helen Faulkner
Erinn Clark wrote: > Right, so we have some plans for Software Freedom Day. We'll be running > several events and they are open to everyone as usual, but we're going > to try to appeal to all levels. Thanks for taking the lead with sorting this stuff out, Erinn :) > - A Debian Women welcome day/c

Software Freedom Day -- UPDATE

2005-08-25 Thread Erinn Clark
Right, so we have some plans for Software Freedom Day. We'll be running several events and they are open to everyone as usual, but we're going to try to appeal to all levels. - A Debian Women welcome day/channel This will primarily be intended for people who are new to Debian, Debian Women, an

Article: Open-source needs more women developers

2005-08-25 Thread Christina Haralanova
Dear all, A friend of mine has just e-mailed me the following article, which is mentioning the DW project; you can read below! Best regards, Christina ~~~ Panel: Open-source needs more women developers Barriers include chauvinism and an 'old boys net