[TOS] Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing - Open Source Track

[Heidi Ellis]

Hi Nicole,
Apologies for the belated response.  The Hopper folks don't have the
easiest web site to navigate. The page for submissions is here:

http://ghc.anitaborg.org/2016-speakers/

Sorry about that and do let me know if you have any questions.
Heidi

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Heidi,
>
> I visited, but the submission page says the deadline is in 2015.  The only
> options are 2014 and 2015.
>
> Thanks a bunch!
> Nicole
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Heidi Ellis <heidijcellis at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>> Want to meet awesome women in technology? Submit your talk proposal now.
>> The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference will be held
>> October 19-21, 2016 in Houston, TX (http://gracehopper.org/2016/
>> <http://gracehopper.org/2015/>). Founded in 1996, the Grace Hopper
>> Celebration of Women in Computing is an annual conference that provides
>> attendees with technical sessions covering a wide range of subjects as well
>> as a rich offering of professional development sessions for attendees at
>> all career levels.
>>
>> Stormy Peters and I are co-chairing the track and the deadline is March
>> 30, 2016.
>>
>> We would like to invite presentations, lightening talks, panels,
>> workshops, and birds of a feather to the Open Source Track.  Submissions
>> that discuss Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) development are welcomed
>> and we are looking for submissions that enable more interactions between
>> presenters and the audience. We’d like to see successful stories that
>> encourage and teach participants how to use and deploy the best about FOSS.
>> Possible topics include:
>>
>>    -
>>
>>    FOSS intellectual property, copyrights and licensing
>>    -
>>
>>    Non-Governmental Organizations and FOSS
>>    -
>>
>>    Incorporating FOSS within organization’s development lifecycle
>>    -
>>
>>    Lessons from FOSS for conventional development
>>    -
>>
>>    Successful stories about encouraging diversity in FOSS projects
>>    -
>>
>>    FOSS and social & humanitarian issues
>>    -
>>
>>    FOSS technologies, in particular how to use them or how to get
>>    started.
>>    -
>>
>>    Adoption/ use / acceptance of FOSS
>>    -
>>
>>    Dissemination / redistribution / crowdsourcing of FOSS systems
>>    -
>>
>>    Expanding scientific research and technology development methods
>>    through openness
>>    -
>>
>>    Adopting innovation in FOSS projects
>>    -
>>
>>    Role of FOSS in ICT and sustainable development
>>    -
>>
>>    Learning, knowledge sharing, collaboration, control or conflict in
>>    FOSS projects
>>    -
>>
>>    FOSS usability, scalability, maintainability and other quality issues
>>    -
>>
>>    Talk or workshop on specific FOSS technologies, such as version
>>    control
>>
>> To submit:  http://gracehopper.org/call-for-participation/open-source/
>>
>> Let me know if you have any questions.
>>
>> Heidi
>>
>>
>>
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