On 15/07/11 18:40, Paula Graham wrote:
We're in the throes of setting up 'Flossie' as a space for women who're
involved in FLOSS in any way - especially advocacy. We're hoping this
will help us to co-ordinate our advocacy activities a bit better and
share what works.
We'll be kicking off with an event in November in London so we can have
a chance to meet and get to know each other a bit and anyone who wants
to help out with that is very welcome.
The (half-done) blog is here: http://www.flossie.org/
Sign up for the discussion list here:
http://apollo.krystal.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/discuss_flossie.org
I'm afraid it's women-only - not from any will to exclude just under
half the human race but just cos we can't include one guy and not
another - so, given that we're less than 3% of the FLOSS population,
we'd most likely end up with another space where we're a tiny minority.
It's just a confidence-building thing and not intended to be divisive :)
All women welcome, technical genius not required.
Have a great weekend,
Paula
Sounds good, I'll pass this on to my local LUG list, there are a couple
of girls on the list, as you say it's pretty male dominated and some
guys can be a bit funny about it, personally I see the girls in my local
LUG as fellow Linux geeks :-)
Good luck with it. I guess it's okay for us guys to blog about it etc?
Rob
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