For those who missed Melissa Draper's presentation ('From Equality to
Diversity: The Road Less Taken') due to the last-minute emergency change,
Melissa has made available the video of her delivering the same talk at CLUG
in June:http://geekosophical.net/misc/clug-june07/ Due to equipment failure, we were unfortunately unable to obtain a complete recording of her talk at SLUG. I can say, however, that it was very well received, with a lively Q&A session afterwards. On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, we are no longer able to offer the Careers Panel at this > month's SLUG meeting. In its place we will have the following: > > > ** Melissa Draper - From Equality to Diversity: The Road Less Taken ** > > This paper describes how due to the nature of participation, the Open > Source community can excel in diversity, whilst at the same time fall short > for reasons of active and passive discrimination. Using gender imbalance as > an example, aspects of diversity failures such as identifying causes, > reparative actions and the reasons for doing so are discussed. > > This is the same talk as was delivered at CLUG in June and at OSDC earlier > this week. > > More information at: > > http://www.cgpublisher.com/conferences/107/proposals/25/index_html > http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux/2007-June/017886.html > > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > == November SLUG Monthly Meeting == > > > > You can read this announcement on the Web at > > http://www.slug.org.au/node/87 > > > > > > When: > > 18.30 - 20.30, Friday, 30 November, 2007 > > > > We start at 18:50 but we ask that people arrive 20 minutes early so we > > can all get into the building and start on time. Please do not arrive > > before 18:00, as it may hinder business activities for our host! > > > > Appropriate signage and directions will be posted on the building. > > > > > > Where: > > Atlassian[1], 173-185 Sussex Street, Sydney > > (corner of Sussex and Market Street) > > > > Entry is via the rear on Slip Street. There are stairs going down along > > the outside of building from Sussex St to near the entrance. A map of the > > area and directions can be found here[2]. > > > > > > = Talks = > > > > ** Jeff Waugh and guests - Careers Panel ** > > > > Jeff Waugh will lead a discussion of issues surrounding employment and > > careers in the FOSS world. > > > > ** Jamie Wilkinson - Linux authentication internals ** > > > > Jamie Wilkinson will be treating you all to a relaxing jaunt through > > glibc's nameservice switch, or what goes on under the hood of > > /etc/nsswitch.conf. In particular, we'll look at how it interoperates > > with LDAP, why nscd got invented, and all of the problems therein. This > > is a warm-up talk to one of similar content to be presented at LCA 2008. > > > > > > = Meeting Schedule = > > > > * 6:15pm: Open Doors > > * 6.40pm: The Usual Suspects > > * 6:45pm: General Talk (see above) > > * 7:30pm: Intermission > > * 7:45pm: Split into two groups for > > * In-depth Talk (see above) > > * SLUGlets: Linux Q&A and other miscellany > > * 8:30pm: Dinner > > > > > > We hope to see you there! > > > > - Sridhar > > > > > > > > [1] http://www.atlassian.com > > [2] http://tinyurl.com/35fxes
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