Re: [WFS-India] feedback on using the word M$

2013-06-13 Thread Debamitro Chakraborti
I can give it to you in writing that running a hate campaign against Windows won't bring people away from there :-) We need a good marketing campaign for GNU/Linux and the text you suggest is nowhere near that On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:12 PM, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun

[WFS-India] Julia Workshop-Sprint for Women on 22Jun2013 at CIS, Bangalore.

2013-06-18 Thread Debamitro Chakraborti
-- Forwarded message -- Hi, Viral, a core-dev of Julia language is conducting a workshop for women on Saturday, 22'nd June at CIS,Bangalore. If you are a female developer interested in BigData, crunching numbers, statistical analysis, or like to connect the dots between large

Re: [WFS-India] Suggestion for re-modelling of the mailing list rules

2013-06-18 Thread Debamitro Chakraborti
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Aruna S safincr...@gmail.com wrote: Women need that sort of confidence building at the beginning ... Small friendly correction -- *everyone* needs that sort of confidence building, not *only* *women*. I have seen enough of technically challenged men in my 8

[WFS-India] Volunteers wanted!

2013-06-23 Thread Debamitro Chakraborti
Hey all, We need some volunteers to complete and manage our website. The tasks are as follows 1. Theme of the site -- go all out and be creative, don't worry about what drupal can do or cannot do ... just try to do in html 2. FOSS pages -- we need to talk about what FOSS means to women, and any

[WFS-India] The First Ubuntu Women Survey

2013-08-14 Thread Debamitro Chakraborti
http://blog.ubuntu-women.org/2013/08/the-first-ubuntu-women-survey/ ...The anonymous results from the survey will be shared with the community and used to better determine how the team members spend their time and what projects we should promote and focus on as we move forward. *... * ** --

[WFS-India] website changes -- 'about us' modified

2013-09-16 Thread Debamitro Chakraborti
Hi, I have put in a new 'about us' on the site (also visible at the end of https://wfs-india.etherpad.mozilla.org/10). It should be visible once the caches are flushed (kaustavdm knows better about this). I wanted to modify the writing on the home page but couldn't figure out how to do that in

Re: [WFS-India] [OT] Indian un-civilization

2013-09-18 Thread Debamitro Chakraborti
Why is this posted to this list anyway? This message has been sent with 'OT' in the subject, which stands for 'off-topic'. Thanks Mani for the correct categorisation. Hope this explains. Regards, Debamitro -- http://about.me/debamitro *don't polish your ignorance, it will

[WFS-India] linuxcon coverage on twitter

2013-09-18 Thread Debamitro Chakraborti
Keep reading tweets from https://twitter.com/search?q=%23LinuxConsrc=hash or by searching for '#LinuxCon' on twitter for getting live coverage of the North America Linux Conference going on now. Tweets that caught my eye were: 1.

[WFS-India] Nandaja Varma from Kerala selected in Linux foundation scholarship

2013-09-25 Thread Debamitro Chakraborti
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2013/09/linux-training-scholarship-winners-represent-new-generation-talent -- http://about.me/debamitro *don't polish your ignorance, it will shine*http://www.ishafoundation.org/ ___ WFS-India

[WFS-India] indian express coverage of female geeks in India

2013-10-05 Thread Debamitro Chakraborti
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/can-the-geek-%28girls%29-inherit-the-earth-/1178878/0 Coverage includes Satabdi and Noopur from this group -- http://about.me/debamitro *don't polish your ignorance, it will shine*http://www.ishafoundation.org/ ___

[WFS-India] Dame Steve Shirley, the World’s First Freelance Programmer

2013-12-05 Thread Debamitro Chakraborti
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/12/06/dame-steve-shirley-freelance-programmer/ -- http://about.me/debamitro *don't polish your ignorance, it will shine*http://www.ishafoundation.org/ ___ WFS-India mailing list WFS-India@lists.openhatch.org

[WFS-India] video on 'not feeding the trolls' in a tech community

2014-02-19 Thread Debamitro Chakraborti
http://youtu.be/ulNSlES1Fds Nice watch -- http://about.me/debamitro *don't polish your ignorance, it will shine*http://www.ishafoundation.org/ ___ WFS-India mailing list WFS-India@lists.openhatch.org Message archives:

[WFS-India] flow-chart for contributing to open source

2014-03-05 Thread Debamitro Chakraborti
http://terriko.dreamwidth.org/148746.html The chart has been prepared keeping python and GSoc in mind, but applies to any open source project. -- http://about.me/debamitro *don't polish your ignorance, it will shine*http://www.ishafoundation.org/ ___

[WFS-India] nice talk on impostor syndrome and geek feminism

2014-03-13 Thread Debamitro Chakraborti
https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/3506-lightening-talk-emily-bache-geek-feminism Emily Bache was probably the only female speaker in the last few ACCU conferences -- http://about.me/debamitro *don't polish your ignorance, it will shine*http://www.ishafoundation.org/

[WFS-India] info sec workshop for women only

2015-01-10 Thread Debamitro Chakraborti
https://rootconf.talkfunnel.com/informationsecurityworkshop/ Bangalore, January 17 Regards, Debamitro -- http://about.me/debamitro *don't polish your ignorance, it will shine* http://www.ishafoundation.org/ ___ WFS-India mailing list

[WFS-India] Women-led companies perform three times better than the SP 500

2015-03-18 Thread Debamitro Chakraborti
http://fortune.com/2015/03/03/women-led-companies-perform-three-times-better-than-the-sp-500/ -- http://about.me/debamitro *don't polish your ignorance, it will shine* http://www.ishafoundation.org/ ___ WFS-India mailing list

[WFS-India] Blog post on women in tech in India

2015-05-29 Thread Debamitro Chakraborti
(shared on HN) http://www.minvolai.com/blog/2015/05/My-Experience-in-Tech-and-its-reflection-on-Women-in-Tech-in-India/2015-5-21-My-Experience-in-Tech/ -- http://about.me/debamitro *don't polish your ignorance, it will shine* http://www.ishafoundation.org/