Women in Drupal (Formerly DrupalChix)

Everyone should definitely check out Angie Byron a.k.a webchick's keynote on Women in Open Source. She was awesome (and so was Liza Kindred).

The overall numbers are shockingly bad, BUT in the Drupal community, we are lucky to have webchick. On top of her many contributions to the community she has made it one of her goals to help get women involved. This Drupalchix group is a small example of her efforts.

• Read the post
• Download the slides
• Watch the keynote

Hi,

I'm new in this group. Hello to all of you. I am going to Paris which will be my first Drupal Conference, so I'm so zusagen a virgin ;)
I'll find it cool to meet you there, so I'm for the proposed meeting too.

See ya

Greetings from Berlin

Mar

The LA user's group is planning the 2009 DrupalCamp, and nbluto and I are going to organize a drupalchix-themed track of some sort. We've just begun planning - and are hoping for feedback from you as to what themes/topics/discussions you would find most useful in such a track!

I seem to remember a mention of games that help high school (or similar) age girls learn programming, and I've forgotten where it was. Do you all know of any fun games that teach something useful like coding or php or something similar?

Cheers!

Penguin Day is coming to San Francisco on Saturday, April 25, 2009,
right before the NTC. We'd love to see you there!

Penguin Days are designed to let nonprofits and social justice activists
learn about free and open source software that can support their work
and potentially save them money, including tools for web publishing,
fundraising, blogging, and campaigning.

Full details are at www.penguinday.org. Thanks to the generosity of
Google, we're delighted to grant fee waivers to anyone who needs one!

G'day from Em Space in Australia.

We're about to start rolling out our new Drupal training workshops in Melbourne and are not only educating developers, but also clients. While there may be the small issue of the ocean between us, don't let that stop you!

Is Drupal training something that you think may benefit your staff or clients? Or is that a silly question! If so, please feel free to pass our details on, alternatively, we'd be very grateful for an introduction to anyone you know operating Drupal in our region who's interested in learning more.

On June 11-12th 2009, there will be a conference about Open Web technologies in Vancouver BC.

The site is absolutely gorgeous, designed by Malcolm a lady herself, yes confusing I know.
http://openwebvancouver.ca/

We would love to see the many talented ladies submit talks, talk submission deadline is April 15th.

In particular it would be lovely to have someone like webchick to give a keynote presentation.

Hi Chix-

I'm working on my next post for the Girls in Tech (http://girlsintech.net) blog, and, inspired by last week's DrupalCon, conversations there (and the intro paragraph for this group!), I wanted to write something on the experiences of women in Drupal and/or open source in general.

Of course, this is the best place to look for material!

My questions for you...

1. Does anyone know what % we were for this DrupalCon?
2. Anyone come across any good research or commentary on this topic?

Many who know me, will know that I am hyper-sensitive about some issues. Overall drupalcon was a fantastic experience, but here are some of my minor criticisms which get under my skin.

• in Dries keynote, noting the facial beard growth as an indication of your seniority or length of time within drupal. Thanks, I guess I will always be junior because I cannot grow a beard.