Hanna M. Wallach gave a talk about Debian Women at FOSDEM. The talk
attracted over 80 people, among which were about 15 women. The slides
of the talk are available from Hanna's blog. A short summary can be
found in Jill Walker's blog.
Monday, 28 February 2005
Miriam Ruiz moderated a discussion about Women in Free Software on IRC
in the #linuxpreview channel. She has made slides available in Spanish.
Following up on last week's story about the Debian Project Leader
Elections: Helen Faulkner and Martin Krafft will be chairing the IRC
debate, during which this year's six candidates will be answering
questions asked by the Debian community. Everybody is encouraged to send
in suggestions.
Tuesday, 22 February 2005
Several Debian Women people were actively involved in the weekend BSP
called by Frank Lichtenheld, and mentioned on the Debian Women mailing
list. In addition to this, some DW people are becoming very involved
in bugsquashing activities, notably Margarita Manterola, who has recently
closed a great many bugs in the evolution package.
Helen Faulkner called for any more people who are interested in the
mentoring program to contact her. As a result of this, several
newcomers to the project have posted to the mailing list or joined the
IRC channel. All these people are very welcome, and there is actually
still space for a few more mentees, so any interested people are welcome
to contact Helen.
Manoj Srivastava has announced that the nomination period will end this
week. The Debian Constitution is certainly an interesting read for
those who want to know more. We will keep you posted about the progress
of the elections.