Re: Introduction to GNU/Linux for girls

2011-05-10 Thread Fernanda G Weiden
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > Just wondering: girls or women? What about we make it "female" so there's no age issue? :-) There was no intention in the choice of term, it was just my non-native-speaker-writing-fast-without-thinking issue... -- Free Software Foundat

Introduction to GNU/Linux for girls

2011-05-10 Thread Fernanda G Weiden
Hi people, I'm planning to give classes of introduction to systems administration gratis for girls at a conference in Brazil (FISL), and I would like to know whether you would like me to translate information about this activity and also brand it as a Debian Women initiative. I know some people do

Re: [LOL] about male's behaviour on IRC

2010-09-01 Thread Fernanda G Weiden
2010/9/1 Miriam Ruiz : > 2010/9/1 Llanos : >> Hi >> I didn't want to offend anyone, I understand you point but I reckon this >> joke in particular is kind of neutral (kind of).  It makes a joke for both >> sides and I personally don't think they are rude or can offend seriously but >> as Miry says

Re: [LOL] about male's behaviour on IRC

2010-09-01 Thread Fernanda G Weiden
I have the impression this thread is going down a dangerous path... 2010/9/1 Llanos : > A SPANISH Teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike > English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. > > >         'House' for instance, is feminine: 'la casa.' >         'Penc

Re: visiting San Francisco

2007-05-07 Thread Fernanda G Weiden
2007/5/6, Danese Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Are you here for JavaONE? I'll be there all week. Not really. The timing is just a coincidence. Let me know about dinner plans for this week, maybe we can meet at one social event or something. After all, the best part of conferences are the social

Re: visiting San Francisco

2007-05-06 Thread Fernanda G Weiden
2007/5/1, Brenda J. Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Unfortunately, my visit is being postponed. I'd love to go for dinner when I get there. I am sorry to hear that. I've just arrived in San Francisco. For the locals/people visiting: should we meet this week? cheers, nanda -- Free Software Found

Re: visiting San Francisco

2007-04-29 Thread Fernanda G Weiden
2007/4/30, Brenda J. Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: It is highly likely that I'm going to be visiting San Francisco the second week of May for a full week - it would be great to meet up with fellow d-w people. Maybe cross-sign gpg keys. I am also going to San Francisco on the second week of May,

Re: IT Goddesses under attack

2006-07-18 Thread Fernanda G Weiden
I have to say that I agreed with your email about the calendar project, and I wouldn't support an initiative like that. But I wouldn't either waste my time attacking them. nanda Miriam Ruiz wrote: > A targeted denial-of-service attack from the US failed in its mission over the > weekend to shut

Re: Now for something really controversial...

2006-07-14 Thread Fernanda G Weiden
Christine Spang wrote: > I vote for subversion. And no, I don't have anything new and brilliant > to add to the conversation, unfortunately. It's been covered. Look to > the almighty brilliance of bubulle. :) +1 non brilliant vote to subversion ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Back to the group

2006-06-26 Thread Fernanda G Weiden
Hi all, in the past I've been active on Debian as package maintainer and a Debian Women member. Today, a bit more than 1 year later, I am finally with my life organized (I have a computer) and would like to somehow back, but I don't know how...two of my ex packages are now included on the local

Re: GNOME to Sponsor Female Developers in a Summer Outreach Program

2006-06-14 Thread Fernanda G Weiden
Good news! I just translated to portuguese and published here: http://mulheres.softwarelivre.org Cheers, nanda Hanna M. Wallach wrote: > Hi everyone, > > In my copious amounts of spare time (haha) I've been working with the > GNOME Foundation on a program to promote the participation of women i

Re: New female DD

2006-06-14 Thread Fernanda G Weiden
Congratulations! Very good news! Margarita Manterola wrote: > Marcela Tiznado is the newest Debian Developer: > https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php#newmaint > > With this happening, we can claim that in Argentina there are more > female DD than male DDs. > > Congrats to Marcela. > -- To UNSUBSC

Women and Free Software panel @ Linuxtag

2006-04-12 Thread Fernanda G Weiden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, as few of you already know, I am organising a Women panel at LinuxTag this year. I would like to know if some of you are going to this event, and if you would be interested on joining in a round table (or open conversation) about our participa

Re: debian women: presentation on february 24?

2006-02-06 Thread Fernanda G Weiden
ou, please let me know. Best Regards, Fernanda G Weiden constantvzw_laurence rassel wrote: > Dear Fernanda > sorry to pursue you like this since you said you come to the fosdem and > won't mind to present debian philosophy, practice and how the debian > women project works but a

Re: [Fwd: debian women in brussels fosdem 2006?]

2006-01-31 Thread Fernanda G Weiden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, As I said in another thread, I'm going to FOSDEM this year, I don't have any presentation ready about Debian Women, but I can maybe prepare something to this event. Please let me know, Fernanda Helen Faulkner wrote: > Hi All, > > I got thi

FOSDEM 2006

2006-01-12 Thread Fernanda G Weiden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there! is anyone going to Brussels next month?? I'm planning to attend the conference. Would be great if I could also meet some of you. Fernanda - -- Fernanda G Weiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software Foundation

Re: Some thoughts regarding DW

2005-08-15 Thread Fernanda G Weiden
Hi there! As all of you should perceive, I usually am at the irc channel, which I much prefer, but I decided to post some points in this thread about some comments. Let's start from the first message. On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:58:04 -0400 "Hanna M. Wallach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Furthermore,

Women and free software to Montreal

2005-07-20 Thread Fernanda G Weiden
*Women and Free Software* On Sunday July 24th 2005, Fernanda Weiden will be of passage in Montreal to open a meeting on the topic of "Women and Free Software". The event will be organized by FACIL, pour l'appropriation collective de l'informatique libre, the Koumbit network, the Laboratoire de Co

Re: Debian-Women and SPI

2005-07-20 Thread Fernanda G Weiden
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:18:28 + (UTC) John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * What could we at SPI be doing to improve the situation? Inviting women to get involved? I don't know anything about the SPI job, but I would like to know. Maybe it's because I never tried to find info, or maybe