Re: Core KDE member about HIG^W female contributors

Telsa Gwynne wrote: She's right. I wanted to contribute and give something back to a movement that has given me a lot. And it's a movement that probably needs Telsa the writer or Telsa the bug-finder or even Telsa the approver-of-posts-held-for-moderation a lot more than Telsa the trying-to-write-

Re: Software quality and documetation, was: Core KDE member about HIG^W female contributors

Patricia Jung wrote: wrote: But writing and bug-finding /are/ subordinate though -- in the sense they only happen after the code's written... When it comes to documentation: not quite. Well, depends whether we're talking what actually happens, or what could happen... :) Documentation can be

Re: Software quality and documentation, was: Core KDE member about HIG^W female contributors

Patricia Jung wrote: And I tell you why (let's take an UI example because this is more obvious): Many coders aren't good at user interface design -- which often has to do with code- instead of user-centric thinking. Well, it's also because the first priority is usually "get something done", no

debian-women & google's summer of code

Hey all, Not sure how many Debian women are students, or how many are interested anyway, but for those of you who are this is just a brief reminder that Google's Summer of Code will be accepting student applications this week. If you do consider applying it's probably worth talking to some of the

Re: [OT] About Computer Careers

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 01:58:49PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > I've been analizing the different career options related to Computers > available in Argentina, [...] Do you mean career development (ie, courses that might or might not help you get a new job later), or careers (ie, actual job

Re: [OT] About Computer Careers

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 03:32:51PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Yes, I have the same feeling. But why? Starting up from what someone > already knows, instead of from the bare basics would allow them to > learn much more in the same amount of time. I think it's more that people start off

Re: Fwd: Linuxchix Mini conference

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:50:36AM -0700, Erinn Clark wrote: > The second annual LinuxChix women's mini-conf will be held on either > Monday the 28th or Tuesday the 29th of January, 2008 (We don't know > which) According to http://linux.conf.au/programme/mini-confs it'll be on Tuesday the 29th; w