[TOS] Expect Traffic

[Heidi Ellis]

Hi Folks,

 

I have just returned from the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
attended by 3500 technical women. I was part of an Open Source Day where we
hacked on ten different projects including Wikipedia and GNOME
Accessibility.  Incredible experience to see so many women students get
involved in FOSS within one day. 

 

The ten organizations that took part in Open Source Day put on a booth
during the conference.  This booth had HUGE traffic. I manned the booth a
couple of hours each day Weds-Fri and brought the TOS cards and white-board
markers. The markers are all gone and we are down to half a box of business
cards.  (Oh, and the shwag for the day was Mozilla socks with the fox logo.
Pretty cool!)

 

I wanted to give you a heads up because we may see an increase in traffic on
our site and on the list.  Just wanted you to know where at least some of
that traffic may be coming from and that most of these folks will be
newbies. I also talked to a fair number of international folks including
from India and Japan. 

Heidi

 

 

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