While at OSCON, one of the kindly fellows from the LFNW booth came over to talk with me about speaking at LFNW, but ended up asking me to try to put together a track about women in Linux. I told him that sounded a bit dated, and how about a track about inclusiveness in general? However, I don't know how popular that would be to the LFNW crowd.
He also urged to me meet up with the women at the Girls in Tech booth across the hall, which I did. While the women in the booth didn't seem that excited about participating in LFNW, they did give me Ivo Lukas' email address, and so she is included in this email, as are Linuxchix, Seattle Linuxchix, Ubuntu-Women, and the LFNW list. I'm eager to get thoughts rumbling around, and make a definite proposal to the LFNW organizers. However, this is entirely new territory for me, so I would appreciate ideas, cautions, enthusiasm, etc. from anyone to whom I've cross-posted. As a stirring stick to this cauldron of thought, I'll toss in a link from MichelleQ via Rikki Kite: http://mashable.com/2010/07/28/developer-hacker-women-twitter/ . Especially look at the links at the end of the article -- there are So Many Women we could ask to speak. Looking forward to lots of advice, Valorie -- New! http://genealogy-uki.linkpendium.com/ Facebook, Twitter, Identi.ca, LinkedIn, Delicious: valoriez . All my pages: http://valorie.zimmerman.googlepages.com _______________________________________________ Fest-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.peakserv.com/mailman/listinfo/fest-list
