Hi Paula, if you let me know what you need for your Ubuntu sessions, I'll see if I can sort something out for you.
Regards, Phill. On 15 October 2012 17:12, Paula Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 15/10/12 15:20, Alan Bell wrote: > > Hi all, > There is an event coming up which might be of interest to a number of > people on the list, 3 days at Bletchley Park focused on career options for > women in the Free and Open Source industry: > http://www.flossie.org/?page_id=596 > The event is being run for the startlingly low price of £15 for three days > and would be of interest to any women seeking a career in this fast growing > sector. > > Anyone seeking to fill posts might want to contact the organisers to find > out how best to proceed. Anyone of any gender looking for a job in the > Surrey area might want to give me a shout off list :) > > Alan. > > Thanks Alan - didn't post to this list before as was afraid it would be > off-topic. Women can book on Eventbrite, there's a link on the URL you gave > or direct to Eventbrite here: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/4474780188- > the workshops are really amazing, we've got women from IBM and > prestigious creative technology companies, participants will be making a > simple android app, getting to grips with BASH shell and GitHub and Drupal > - there's a women's tour of the National Museum of Computing thrown in > along with lunch etc and talks from successful open source career women. > Full programme here: > http://www.flossie.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/course_outline_and_plan_LIVE.pdf > > There seems to be a bit of a problem recruiting people with decent open > source skills so we're trying to do something about that as well as > supporting women to take the plunge and start coding. We're piloting a > short taster course with women as Flossie - if it goes well, we'll talk to > some of the Universities we already work with about developing a regular > summer school - we'll run some for women-only (confidence building) as > Flossie and some for mixed participants as Floss Talent (which has the OSC > as a partner). > > Happy to give more info - email [email protected] :) > > When we develop the longer summer school, it'd be good to include > something about how to get started contributing to Ubuntu specifically so > we can talk when the time comes? > > Fossbox has lost our free space, by the way, which kiboshes our Ubuntu > sessions for the time being. We're looking at finding an alternative host > for them though. > > We're also toying with the idea of adding a women's Ubuntu session - but > not sure if there'd be enough interest to make it worthwhile - so hands up > if you'd like one ;) > > Paula > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > -- > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw > >
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