Bad news from the Philippines

Digital Pinay 2005: A great leap _backward_ in promoting women in IT http://www.livejournal.com/users/sachachua/6605.html by Sacha Chua Miguel Paraz just forwarded a _very_ interesting contest application to the CompSAt-EB mailing list, and I'm sending this to you because it is worth ta

Re: Bad news from the Philippines

Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Digital Pinay 2005: A great leap _backward_ in promoting women in IT > http://www.livejournal.com/users/sachachua/6605.html > by Sacha Chua Hate to break it to you, but it's real. Did the fact-checking this morning. They're

Re: Bad news from the Philippines

I've posted a few nuggets at http://sacha.free.net.ph/notebook/wiki/DigitalPinay.php . They're worried, perhaps even on the run. Has anyone fought anything similar before? Other essays and articles would certainly be helpful. -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - open sour

Better news from the Philippines

and communication technology industry has come under heavy criticism, with online detractors saying the contests is little more than a âglorified beauty pageant.â -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - open source geekette http://sacha.free.net.ph/ - PGP Key ID: 0xE7FDF77C interests: emacs,

PCS cancels Digital Pinay contest; yay, angry bloggers

e to put up with nonsense. -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - open source geekette http://sacha.free.net.ph/ - PGP Key ID: 0xE7FDF77C interests: emacs, gnu/linux, personal information management, CS ed sachac on irc.freenode.net#emacs . YM: sachachua83 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: How do women become involved in free / open source projects?

newbie / hobbyist / student crowds, taking advantage of the fact that I'm a young girl crazy about computers. =) I'm still a little too intimidated to do expert talks on highly technical topics. -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - open source geekette http://sacha.free.net.ph/ - PGP

Re: free access to a Debian "sarge" server

too. He's cool. -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - open source geekette http://sacha.free.net.ph/ - PGP Key ID: 0xE7FDF77C interests: emacs, gnu/linux, personal information management, CS ed sachac on irc.freenode.net#emacs . YM: sachachua83 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Does estrogen make us better with computers?

ry social thing. I don't think that's quite what they meant, though... (Then again, I think I share the same peculiarity.) -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - open source geekette interests: emacs, gnu/linux, making computer science education fun wearable computing, personal inform

Hello, world!

I suspect that only people who read my changelogs or know me in some official capacity will recognize my full name as I almost always use 'Sacha Chua'. I'm currently in Japan for IT training. I started using Linux in 1996, when my first year high school teacher put me in front of a co

Localization work, evangelism

're working on the user advocacy level (again, Knoppix has been great), but I'd like to eventually get more people into documentation, development, and other contributions to the world-wide community. -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - open source geekette interests: emacs, gn

Re: Localization work, evangelism

n localization, but efforts haven't really gotten anywhere yet. Far more likely, I think, is the possibility of getting people involved in documenting how to set things up, how to get things to work. Hmmm... (I think I'm getting off-topic for debian-women. What is the most appropriate l

Re: Localization work, evangelism

ublic schools interested. I just don't think that's the major stumbling block to widespread Debian or Linux adoption in the Philippines. Now, if we could just make a stronger business case for Linux, or even just skill transfer for students who are going to end up working on Microsoft platf

Re: Localization work, evangelism

g. How can he get started? -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - open source geekette http://sacha.free.net.ph/ - PGP Key ID: 0xE7FDF77C interests: emacs, gnu/linux, personal information management, CS ed applying as a Debian new maintainer | looking for a grad school

Re: Localization work, evangelism

) and just play with it. Nice side benefit: an established translation will also give me a lexicon of technical terms to use for teaching in Filipino. ^_^ This is a Good Thing. This is a bit embarrassing, Google-wise, but I'm glad I expressed my misconceptions. That way, they could b

Re: Localization work, evangelism

h that. He was interested in that long before I showed up on the scene, I think. That said, at least he knows Debian people want a Tagalog translation too... ^_^ -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - open source geekette http://sacha.free.net.ph/ - PGP Key ID: 0xE7FDF77C interests: emacs

Re: #debian-mujeres channel

gually-friendly place help? I know I'd love to practice my Japanese there... I don't see a problem with mixing languages in a single chat room. Then again, you've probably already considered that. =) Have fun! -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - open source geekette ht