[Announce] LinuxChix women's miniconference at linux.conf.au: earlybird registration closing Nov 15!

Mary Gardiner mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org
Mon Nov 13 23:44:19 UTC 2006


The LinuxChix women's miniconference at linux.conf.au has announced our
schedule of speakers for our day-long event on Tuesday January 16 2007. The
schedule is available at
http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Miniconfs/Linuxchix/Schedule and includes talks on
women in Free Software, career tactics, and Free Software projects by women.

IMPORTANT: People wishing to attend the mini-conference must register for the
linux.conf.au conference. Earlybird discounts of 25% on Hobbyist and
Professional level registration are available, but you MUST register by
November 15 and pay by November 22 in order to get the discount.

Register for linux.conf.au at http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Registration

About the miniconference

The LinuxChix women's mini-conference will be held on Tuesday, 16 January,
2007 at the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia, as part of the
annual linux.conf.au Free Software conference running from 15–20 January,
2007. All attendees of linux.conf.au are welcome to attend the women's
miniconference, which will highlight the achievements of women in Free
Software. The mini-conference particularly welcomes attendees from other
women's advocacy and development groups including Systers, Fedora Women and
Debian Women among others.

Please see http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Miniconfs/Linuxchix for more
information about the women's mini-conference and
http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Miniconfs/Linuxchix/Schedule for full details of
planned presentations.

Feel free to forward this mail to any women or groups you think would be
interested.

About linux.conf.au 2007

linux.conf.au is Australia's annual technical conference for the Open Source
and Free Software developer community. Now in its eighth year, linux.conf.au
is regarded as one of the premier global FLOSS technical events and attracts
many international open source software developers and users.

Returning to Sydney from the 15th to 20th of January, linux.conf.au 2007 is
supported by our Emperor sponsors, HP and IBM, and hosted at the University
of New South Wales. For more information about linux.conf.au 2007 visit our
website at: http://lca2007.linux.org.au/

About Linux Australia

Linux Australia exists to serve and promote the Australian Linux and Open
Source community. The organisation aims to do this best by taking
enthusiasms within the community, such as FOSS issues, projects, education,
advocacy just to name a few, and help them flourish, to succeed. The
lifeblood of this organisation is the people in the community, and Linux
Australia strives to be both relevant and useful to the community. For more
details about Linux Australia visit: http://www.linux.org.au/


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