Women in science: Univ. of Helsinki numbers

2005-03-05 Thread Lars Wirzenius
I tried to send this once already, but as far as I can see, since I had configured my laptop's mail system badly (read: not configured it after all after a re-installation), it didn't go anywhere. My apologies if it did go out and this is a repeat. A friend of mine wrote in her web log about women

Re: Mentoring Feedback

2005-03-22 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ti, 2005-03-22 kello 11:24 -0500, David Nusinow kirjoitti: > Maybe it's time to start thinking about ways to slowly open this program up > to the wider Debian? I'm feeling like we need more documentation to > standardize things though. A mentoring HOWTO and maybe a mentee HOWTO? Isn't that what de

Re: Mentoring Feedback

2005-03-24 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2005-03-23 kello 18:19 +0100, Meike Reichle kirjoitti: > That's why I said I wasn't sure whether I was a proper mentoringing > candidate. I know the mentoring program ist actually aimed at people > undertaking a distict project. So, if there is someone who'd like to help > me a bit on my way, I

Re: Debconf5 accommodation (snoring)

2005-05-04 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2005-05-04 kello 05:00 -0300, Segfault, aka Fabricio Cannini kirjoitti: > Hi girls, guys and others (un)reasoning creatures!! > > As i'm really willing to go to DC5, > and air tickets wouldn't be the worst problem > (i can get it at obscenely low prices) > but i'm **really** tight on money, >

Re: Debconf5 accommodation (snoring)

2005-05-04 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2005-05-04 kello 05:35 -0300, Segfault, aka Fabricio Cannini kirjoitti: > Not exactly it (although quite clarifying, thanks) > but i mean, we're going to hang out, party, > make some sightseeing in HEL, etc... right?? > > Considering some 2 or 3 parties in a week, > ++ a visit to HEL, how muc

Re: DW quotes

2005-06-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ti, 2005-06-14 kello 21:43 -0400, Erinn Clark kirjoitti: > - How the project has helped you I understand the world a little bit better now. > - How it's different/better than other groups you've been associated > with (or maybe even worse, it's not like we don't need to improve...) Better cont

Re: D-W t-shirts at Debconf5

2005-07-11 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2005-07-11 kello 20:02 +0300, Hanna M. Wallach kirjoitti: > Liw -- (3XL), black, SS10L, 16 EUR Got mine. People look at me strangely. Even on the bus on the way home. Must be good marketing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Python or PyGTK tutorials?

2005-07-21 Thread Lars Wirzenius
There has been some discussion on the D-W IRC channel about a tutorial on Python or PyGTK, the Python bindings for the GTK widget library that GNOME uses. I would be willing to give either or even both of them, if there is interest. The Python tutorial would assume some programming experience in a

Re: Hello

2006-01-12 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2006-01-12 kello 04:47 +, Zoe Parsons kirjoitti: > I've just been coming out of a major bout of depression and thought that > I'd try and get myself actively involved in Debian finally (about time, > I've been using it for years now). Just thought I'd say hello really. :-) > > If anyone

IRC Python tutorial: Feb 4 or Feb 11

2006-01-25 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Back last spring, I promised to give an online, IRC tutorial about Python basics. I've been dragging my feet about this like an Olympic champion, but let's finally do it. The date is either Saturday, February 4, 19-22 UTC, or Saturday, February 11, 19-22 UTC (i.e., Saturday next week or the week a

Re: IRC Python tutorial: Feb 4 or Feb 11

2006-01-25 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2006-01-25 kello 23:39 +0100, martin f krafft kirjoitti: > also sprach Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.01.25.2320 +0100]: > > The date is either Saturday, February 4, 19-22 UTC, or Saturday, > > February 11, 19-22 UTC (i.e., Saturday next week or the week aft

Re: IRC Python tutorial: Feb 4 or Feb 11

2006-01-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2006-01-26 kello 21:51 +0100, Enrico Zini kirjoitti: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 12:20:13AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > > The IRC network is irc.oftc.net, the channel is #debian-women. > > The topic is Python for people who can program (at least a little), but > >

Re: IRC Python tutorial: Feb 4 or Feb 11

2006-01-30 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2006-01-26 kello 00:20 +0200, Lars Wirzenius kirjoitti: > Back last spring, I promised to give an online, IRC tutorial about > Python basics. I've been dragging my feet about this like an Olympic > champion, but let's finally do it. > > The date is either Saturday,

Python tutorial - written version

2006-03-02 Thread Lars Wirzenius
(since strings are strings of bytes; we'll come ot unicode later). The last line of main() shows one way of extending Python statements to multiple lines: if a parenthesized expression is too long, just break it to the next line, and it will all work automatically. The other way is to use a back

Re: Python tutorial - written version

2006-03-03 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2006-03-02 kello 18:04 -0500, Angelina Carlton kirjoitti: > Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Attached is a written version of the Python IRC tutorial we had two and > > a half weeks ago on #debian-women. I'd appreciate help in putting it on > &

IRC tutorial for PyGTK?

2006-03-22 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Hi, Last weekend I gave a brief tutorial on PyGTK, the slides[1] and examples[2] of which are on the web. If there is still intrest in an IRC tutorial for Debian-Women about this, I'd be happy to give one, similar to the Python one we had recently. The tutorial would be pretty much identical to th

Re: IRC tutorial for PyGTK?

2006-04-06 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2006-03-22 kello 16:07 +0200, Lars Wirzenius kirjoitti: > The week starting Monday, April 3, would be best for me. Any day during > that week would be fine for me, but it needs to start at 10:00 UTC at > the earliest and end no later than 22:00 UTC. I assume two to three > hours w

Re: IT screen goddesses

2006-07-09 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2006-07-10 kello 00:53 -0400, Erinn Clark kirjoitti: > * Lynoure Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:07:10 07:28 +0300]: > > Let me approach the matter from a different angle: If you consider > > this calendar is ok, what kind of calendar of women in IT would be ok? > > Maybe one of them actua

Re: Now for something really controversial...

2006-07-11 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ti, 2006-07-11 kello 16:27 -0400, Erinn Clark kirjoitti: > I think we should switch version control systems for our website. Which > one should we use? I will probably go with whichever option is most > popular, but have a preference for not subversion. Discuss. I am fond of bzr; however, I don't

Re: problem with log out

2008-02-23 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On la, 2008-02-23 at 10:37 -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 23/02/2008, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > radeonhd exists today, why not use that? > > Is it working yet? I don't use ATI cards. My desktop machine has an ATI card: the decision to buy one was a direct result of

lwn.net discussion about the "Ubuntu-Girlfriend experiment"

2008-05-05 Thread Lars Wirzenius
http://lwn.net/Articles/279895/#Comments This has probably been discussed already in various places, but I thought I'd point it out here, for posterity. There's a blog entry about doing some simple usability testing of Ubuntu, with the author using their SO as the test person. As it happens, the S

Re: choosing a Debian Package to learn to package

2008-12-02 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ti, 2008-12-02 kello 12:35 -0800, Maria Nelson kirjoitti: > Any suggestion on how I can go about picking a package to learn to > package? The reason it is often suggested you work on packages that you use yourself is that this gives you motivation to keep working on the package. However, it is not

Re: /tmp accidentally filled - SOLVED, thanks to the help

2008-12-03 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2008-12-03 kello 17:10 +, Lisi Reisz kirjoitti: > As a result of the suggestions made on this list, I rebooted into the CLI, > checked, and /tmp was completely empty. I then rebooted into the GUI - > and /tmp had the same files, by name. But it is no longer reported as 100% > full, and

Re: before building a debian package...

2008-12-12 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2008-12-12 kello 15:54 -0800, Maria Nelson kirjoitti: > Before a program can be turned into a Debian package, it should be > build-able with just the regular ./configure, make, make install > sequence. Is that correct? It is not actually necessary for the upstream build system to follow that f

Re: Will the IRC training session tonight be recorded ?

2010-11-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2010-11-18 at 13:23 +0100, cha...@ohmytux.com wrote: > Hi, > > That question was asked by someone on my blog, who could be interested in > the session but has no time tonight for it. If you plan to record the IRC > log somewhere, please keep me informed of the location of this file. It wil

Re: Licensing of D-W training session tutorials

2010-12-11 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On la, 2010-12-11 at 17:09 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > I suggest that copyright holders for those tutorials be contacted and > asked to license the tutorials under the GNU GPL v2 or otherwise the > Expat license (depending on the preferences regarding copyleft...). You failed to mention that yo

Re: Slides about Women in Free Software

2011-01-13 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2011-01-13 at 09:28 +, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 13 January 2011 06:29:17 Christian PERRIER wrote: > > My personal approach on this is often shortening ideas to one or two > > words: so those people who are not sleeping yet (or reading their > > mail...) will also have to rely on your ta

Re: updates about the website?

2011-06-11 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 05:14:20PM -0300, Tássia Camões wrote: > Hi Monica! > > 2011/6/11 Mònica Ramírez : > > > > I'm afraid the website is not working any more because of alioth's > > update. It's also affecting other projects: > > > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-osm-maint/2011-

Re: What do you think of Tolvalds words about FOSS needing more people good at mediating instead of calming tone and attitude?

2015-01-21 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:55:23PM +0100, Amaya wrote: > Miriam Ruiz wrote: > > "Torvalds said that the open source movement might simply need more > > "people who are good at mediating," as opposed to asking developers to > > calm their own tone or attitude." > > Meadiating in conflict is good, b