Tag Archives: Women
What words mean varies from person to person
Yesterday, the UWN issue #51 was released, and as usual, it is a good read. However, one of the sections had some unfortunate wording, which has sparked some debate on the marketing mailing list and within Ubuntu-Women. The passage in … Continue reading
CLUG talk and why slides with stage-fright suck
Last Thursday, I travelled to Canberra to give a talk to CLUG (Canberra Linux Users Group). The trip was by train (which was fine except for the occasional grinding noise right next to where I was sitting on the return … Continue reading
Discussions, talks and schools of thought
Since I wrote the letter a few weeks ago, I’ve had a number of excellent discussions with people. One of which transformed into an invitation to give a talk on the topic later this month, which I have accepted. So, … Continue reading
This past week
I am a strong believer that there is no use talking about doing something, if you do not do anything about it. This just creates a heap of noise which achieves nothing, and that is a waste of time and … Continue reading
An Open Letter to the Open Source Community
Dear users, developers and other contributors of Open Source, I write this letter as a contributor of Ubuntu, and as a member of the Ubuntu Women project. As a Woman and an Open Source contributor, I see a number of … Continue reading
