[TOS] Open Source Day at Grace Hopper

[Heidi Ellis]

Hi Folks,

 

I wanted to draw your attention to the Open Source Day 

being held as part of the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC)of

Women in Computing (http://gracehopper.org/2012/). GHC is

being held in Baltimore MD, October 3-6 and the Open Source

Day is Saturday, October 6th:

 

http://gracehopper.org/2012/conference/grace-hopper-open-source-day/

 

Open Source Day introduces conference attendees to 

the wonderful world of open source software and provides 

attendees the opportunity to contribute to the greater 

social good by participating in a project via coding, 

documenting or other means. There will be ten FOSS projects 

including GNOME A11y, Kids on Computers, Google Crisis 

Response, Sahana, the Shared Learning Cooperative, and 

more. We expect around 200 attendees, many of whom will be 

students. This is  a great opportunity to network, and 

as the attendees will be primarily female, this is a great 

opportunity to encourage your female students. 

 

You can sign up for only the Open Source Day for a 

modest $35:

 

http://gracehopper.org/2012/participate/registration/

 

I'll be there working with the GNOME Assistive Technology 

team and I'm bringing two female students. Folks from the 

FOSS community are also encouraged to attend. I'd be happy 

to answer any questions that you may have. Feel free to 

email me (ellis at wne.edu). Please join us! 

 

Heidi Ellis

 

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