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An O’Reilly series of articles on women in Tech, written by women, during the month of September. Looking forward to reading them. I’ll link them here as they come.
Thanks Liz for sharing this on a LinuxChix mailing list :)

Social Engineering by Leslie Hawthorne
A Fifty Year Wave of Change by Maria Klawe
Be a Part of Influencing […]

“No, I Need Mr. Caitlyn”Sometimes, I wonder in what kind of world I’m living. Thanks Stemp for emailing me with this link.
How not to be an asshole: a guide for menThis one, I got some time ago from Sarah Hobbs in a ubuntu-marketing mailing list discussion.

So, watcha think?

I wish to relay here two actions undertaken on LinuxChix mailing lists .org and .fr, links to websites are in right panel.
Both ads share the same visual support for Hi-tech, women body parts, in a French “Département” website or in a Linux paper mag. No need to remind me that yogurt or cars get the […]

Je souhaite relayer ici deux actions qui sont menées en parallèle sur les listes de diffusion des LinuxChix, .org et .fr. Les liens des deux sites sont dans la barre de droite.
Les deux pubs ont en commun de proposer le corps des femmes comme support de pub pour des nouvelles technologies, sur le site d’un […]

A new mailing list has been set up for the “Ubuntu For All” project:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-for-all
The project currently aggregates: Ubuntu Accessibility, Ubuntu LGBT, Ubuntu Youth and Ubuntu Women.

I blogged yesterday about a questionable women representation that got into Planet Ubuntu-fr.
I did not feed it into Planet Ubuntu-Women, or in Planet Ubuntu-Users. I also closed the comments, I already got into this kind of discussion (this fun, this is art, this is a (copyrighted) drawing, you have no humor, watch TV…) and heard […]

J’ai écrit un article hier au sujet d’une représentation discutable qui a été publiée sur le Planet Ubuntu-fr.
Je ne l’ai pas posté dans la catégorie passant sur les Planet Ubuntu-Women et Planet Ubuntu-Users. J’ai aussi fermé les commentaires, j’ai déjà été impliquée dans ce genre de discussion (c’est fun, c’est de l’art ce n’est qu’un […]

So its labeled “No-comment“. Sure thing, I wont comment!
Not on the blog itself, though. Because I’m sick of this, because I’ve already commented and moderated such women representations within the French Ubuntu community, and the price was high, very high.
So you are free to put whatever you want on your desktop, on your blog, on […]

You can download the logs here:
http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/20070426
I’ll update this post with the link to the first meeting logs when available.
Next meeting with Jono will be on Tuesday May 1st, 2007, at 16:00 UTC, in #ubuntu-women @ irc.freenode.net.

Vous pouvez télécharger les logs ici :
http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/20070426
je mettrai cet article à jour avec un lien sur les logs de la première réunion quand ils seront disponibles.
La prochaine réunion avec Jono aura lieu le mardi 1er mai 2007, à 16:00 UTC (18:00 en France métropolitaine), sur #ubuntu-women @ irc.freenode.net.

A little reminder, we will have a meeting on Thursday 19th April, 2007, at 4pm (16:00) UTC in #ubuntu-women IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. This special meeting with Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager for Canonical, is to discuss women’s issues in Ubuntu community.
Everyone welcome (men included, so no fuss ;)).

edit: Jono’s blog entry.

Petite info (ou rappel), une réunion aura lieu jeudi 19 Avirl prochain, à 16:00 UTC (18:00 en France) dans le canal IRC #ubuntu-women sur irc.freenode.net. Cette réunion avec Jono Bacon, « Ubuntu Community Manager » pour Canonical a pour objet de discuter les problèmes des femmes dans la communauté Ubuntu.
Tout le monde sera bienvenu (hommes […]

When smart people get to talk, meet, in the middle of the battle field. All for the best, hopefully:
http://www.rageboy.com/statements-sierra-locke.html
Their common concern can be shrunk down to a agreement on not contributing to limiting free and open exchange:
Quoting Kathy:
That said, Chris and I are in complete agreement that it would be tragic if this
incident were used […]

Ou ce qui se passe quand des personnes intelligentes se parlent, se rencontrent, au beau milieu du champ de bataille. Pour le meilleur, espérons :
http://www.rageboy.com/statements-sierra-locke.html
Leur point commun peut se résumer à un accord à ne pas faire en sorte que cette histoire terrible contribue à limiter les échanges libre et ouverts sur l’internet :
Citation de […]

A short blog entry, as this has already been posted on planet ubuntu-women:
http://www.geekosophical.net/?p=83
http://timelady.com/blog/2007/03/27/we-challenge-the-culture-of-violence-when/
Kathy Sierra thinks about not blogging anymore due to violent death threats comments on her blog and on other web sites. She even canceled conferences she was due to give.
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/as_i_type_this_.html
When the worst aspects of real life enters the blogosphere.
This post is for her, […]