I am reading this thread about women in open source having just seen Kirrily Robert give an *excellent* keynote about this topic at ZendCon yesterday morning. I can't find the slides but I think it's the same presentation she gave at OSCON called Standing out in the Crowd:
http://infotrope.net/blog/2009/07/25/standing-out-in-the-crowd-my-oscon-keynote/ I highly recommend you check it out. She's a great presenter and the material was very good. On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:36 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > I did the same thing . . . but the thing that tipped me off first was > the large percentage of females in the room. I guess that's an > unfortunate reflection of the composition of the open source > community, but a fact nonetheless. > > Asa > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:21 AM, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks for the signage Sam! It was very helpful. So good in fact, I was a >> little early and barged into a marked room with a gaggle of people huddling >> around a computer. SOMETHING told me that it wasn't a VAGUE meeting . . . >> aside from the time, might have been the absence of netbooks or lack of >> facial hair. Dunno. >> >> >> On Oct 20, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Sam Hooker wrote: >> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> >>> Park in the Visitor Lot on the south side of College Street (just downhill >>> of where College intersects South Prospect Street). Enter Waterman building >>> via the green doors on the south side of the building (across College from >>> that parking lot). You'll be in a lobby. At the left end of the opposite >>> wall (left of the water fountain) is a door leading to stairs. Take the >>> stairs down one level and enter the lab via the door in front of you. >>> Straight ahead about 10m is a door labeled "113-Q". That's the PC Lab in >>> question. I'll try to put up some signage beforehand. >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> - -sth >>> >>> sam hooker|[email protected]|http://www.noiseplant.com >>> >>> "I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." >>> Thomas Edison >>> >>> - ----- "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Not too familiar with the bowels of Waterman building. >>>> In case I can't read the huge neon signage that will be pointing me in >>>> >>>> the right direction . . . >>>> Where is the PC lab? Floor? Entrance to take? Left? Right? Elevator? >>>> Help Desk? >>>> >>>> >>>> On Oct 19, 2009, at 6:25 PM, Josh Sled wrote: >>>> >>>>> Kevin Thorley <[email protected]> writes: >>>>>> >>>>>> For those of us who may not be able to make it to the >>>> >>>> presentation, >>>>>> >>>>>> what pub will we be meeting at after? >>>>> >>>>> Let's say … American Flatbread. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> ...jsled >>>>> http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo >>>> >>>> $...@${b} >>> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) >>> Comment: Use GnuPG with Firefox : http://getfiregpg.org (Version: 0.7.9) >>> >>> iEYEARECAAYFAkreFq4ACgkQX8KByLv3aQ2mhQCfWgQOhQ4p+It/oCAPusQHqp4f >>> IRIAnibTB/2lk8e4okK7fjj0RbgNgezI >>> =ciat >>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> > -- http://bradley-holt.blogspot.com/
