Thanks for all the responses. I am well aware of SteamCoders and know Keila l, et al well. I will present the opportunity to volunteer at SCALE to the women in our group as exposure. And, discuss FLOSS (heard about it through a colleague at GHC this year). Thanks again!
Lori Mitchell Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 22, 2016, at 1:04 PM, Kenneth Wyrick kmw@caltek.net wrote:
Hi Lori,
Sounds like you are looking for opportunities to explore and expand FLOSS with Black Women in Technology. I am a Black Person in FLOSS and I would love to have a conversation with you about your organization participants and potential opportunities to engage in FLOSS activities.
I encourage you to browser through 2 particular resources that may provide a FLOSS distro context and have your participants identify any that they are interested in testing or getting more familiar with:
http://turnkeylinux.org http://distrowatch.org
Ok as i go through your website I see; Keila Banks Presents at SCALE 14x. I know her dad, mom, grandfather and siblings. She would be a good one to involve in expanding FLOSS for your organization.
I also wound up on the: http://www.steamcoders.org/programs/
where i see a class that we would like to have at our OSSIE day (sat, march4) @ SCALE:
Introduction to "Scratch" ~ Students in Grades 4-7 (First-time Coders) Oct. 22nd - Dec. 10th ~ Saturdays - 8:30 am – 12:00 pm University of La Verne - Founder's Hall - Rm. FH - 207 1950 3rd St, La Verne, CA 91750
<quote who="Lori Mitchell"> Hello all:
I would like to know how Black Women in Technology can become involved? I know the opportunities in open source abound 😊
My goal is to make sure our group can encourage more black women to migrate towards open source. Thanks in advance for your replies.
Warmly, Lori Mitchell
Lori Mitchell Founder/CEO Black Women In Technology
t. (310) 862-4236 e. info@blackwomenintech.org w. http://www.blackwomenintech.org http://www.facebook.com/blackwomenintechla http://twitter.com/BWiTLA http://wiseintro.co/lorimitchell
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 12:38 AM, Ilan Rabinovitch ilan@socallinuxexpo.org wrote:
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Mx Siltanen mrsiltanen@gmail.com wrote:
Q: Results from CFP... did we get enough?
350+ proposals.
What areas do we need more coverage?
The program committee is meeting later this week, and we'll have a better sense of inventory on the main tracks. Some of the side events, will be reviewed after the holiday weekend.
As I am experimenting more with twitter for outreach I am encountering possible people to invite to participate with SCALE 15x and it would be good to know if there are areas which I may encourage greater participation.
btw - Most of my focus currently is Open Data, Big Data, DevOps, and Info-Sec related.
Thanks Matti.
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