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Only about 1.5% of the people involved in open source are women, leaving us terribly underrepresented. In the Drupal world, we're up to a whopping 7% 10% 17%, which only gets us to awfully unrepresented. ;) This group is for anyone (male, female, or otherwise) who believes that we can do better and wants to help.
So if you:
- are a woman who needs some help/guidance in order to get (more) involved with Drupal and the Drupal community
- are a woman who wants to network and get to know other women involved in Drupal
- are anyone who has ideas on things we can do to help encourage women to participate in Drupal
...then this is the group for you. :)
Looking for advice - how to theme
I've been using Drupal for a little over a year now, and while I'm getting much better there are still times I get stumped. I'm looking for someone(s) who is willing to give me some guidance periodically on what the best way is to achieve something, but something that's not related to a particular module. Is this a good place to post this type of request?
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When I gained cvs access, I read the drupal book pages on cvs and also merlinofchaos blog, and polled irc drupal-support.
What I came up with was that there are 2 ways of maintaining releases for contributed modules.
1) Always have the latest code in head, and only release a branch when the new version of drupal comes out. For example when working with module and it is for drupal5 the code is found under HEAD, when the module is upgraded for drupal6, create a branch DRUPAL-5 for the drupal5 module.
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Labor Saving Modules & Tips
Hi, I find myself the proud mother of a now, one month old baby girl and a three year old, desperately short on sleep and hopelessly short on time. Last night. I found myself half asleep last night thinking of the 1950's miracle of technology - the automatic kitchen.
I've got a multi-site Drupal 5 site I've got to update to 6, and I'm looking for the microwave oven and refrigerator of the Drupal world.
What modules and or tips or tricks do you find save you time and make your life easier?
Read moreDrupal Camp LA 2008
Have decided to scoot down to Los Angeles for Drupalcampla.com, as I will be down there for the Digital Identity conference in Anaheim earlier that week.
Any other drupalchix attending / organizing drupalcamp Los Angeles?
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Drupalchix; We're Now 10%!
7% no more, we've gone up to 10%!
At least at Drupalcon Szeged. I wonder what the numbers are now overall.
Drupal has been notably very gender friendly for a while and has many incredibly inspiring, amazing women that are a part of making it both a great CMS and a great community to be a part of. Drupal has always had a larger number of female contributors than most open source projects, the percentage just a piddly 2% in open source in general. We've been at 7% for a while now and it's so great to see those numbers increasing.
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seeking CVS support
I have gone to meetups asking this question, asked on IRC, and tried stuff on my own, without success. Maybe Drupalchix can help.
In essence, I need to be able to routinely grep all Drupal 5 contributed modules. So, naturally, I wanted to download them all (because I haven't found another way to grep them all).
The following command unfortunately gets me a slew of things with info files containing "core = 6.x"
cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib checkout -d DRUPAL-5 contributions
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textaloud
Hi all,
One of our clients wish to have 'textaloud' functionality integrated into his websites.
Guys are there any open source alternatives for this?
how about building a module with such functionality?
looking forward for all your comments ....
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Drupalcon Szeged Drupalchix BoF!
Drupachix BoF at Drupalcon Szgeged!
Learning from my horrible mistake at Drupalcon Boston where like half the women missed this session, this time I wanted to give any chix coming to Szeged a heads-up on when this is going to be so we don't have to resort to silly things like leaving notes in the girl's room. ;)
So, the session will be at 4pm - 4:45pm in the "Sun" BoF room, on the first day of the conference, where we can all meet each other and talk about our backgrounds, what we do with Drupal, or whatever else we feel like. This way, we can maybe skip out to dinner afterwards, and we all have seen each other the first day and will recognize each other throughout the rest of the week. Also, this was one of very few slots where there wasn't a woman presenting. :)
Hope to see you there!
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Congratulations to webchick who's among the 2008 Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award Winners
I haven't come across this yet anywhere in Drupal land: http://code.google.com/opensource/osa-hall-of-fame.html
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blockquote>The Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards have been presented to individuals for dedication, innovation, leadership and outstanding contribution to open source.
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Cool conferences to meet other chix?
Over at the BlogHer conference post, Chach asked:
how do you find good conferences to go to to meet more cool programmin' chicks like yourself? (especially if you are like me and have to see a face in person before communicating online)
And I frankly have no idea. I just go to conferences that are either about Drupal, or that people ask me to come speak at. :D
What other conferences are out there that would be of interest to Drupalchix?
Read moreLearning challenges / philosophy
I think (I philosophize) that an awesome woman coder is easy to spot, and no one doubts her skills. As a mediocre (currently) middle-aged female new Drupal coder I think it's harder to gain respect, to be included in the conversation, and generally to be seen as having the potential to gain the skillset. Sometimes, I wish I were male and 25. The assumptions are different.
(Recently told on a job interview that they were looking for someone fresh out of school... both in initial phone call, and at the interview... so, in that case, she didn't mean male, she just meant half my age...)
Read moreAnyone Else Routinely Get their Name Masculinized?
My name is Erin, and I really can't count the number of times I'll get a reply to an email from a technical contact where THEY CHANGE MY NAME -- usually to Eric.
It seems odd -- like some sort of masculine equivalence thing of Erin. The other thing that happens a lot, are replies that imply that somehow I am misspelling my own name and it 'should' be Aaron. (this usually makes me laugh).
I've tried a lot of strategies like -- repeating the correct spelling of my name multiple times in the same email, and signature etc. -- to no avail.
Read moreBlogHer Conference + Getting involved in Drupal
So...
a) This group is way too quiet. :)
b) I'm going to be speaking at the BlogHer '08 Conference in San Francisco on Saturday, July 19. Any fellow chix going to be there, too?
c) The topic I'm speaking about is how to get involved in the Drupal community (as part of a larger "how to participate in open source" topic). Now, I give this talk all the time (usually loudly, excitedly, and with many flailing hand gestures), but I was curious to hear from you folks, since you're basically the target audience for this talk, if there's anything that you would particularly like to know about getting started in contributing to open source, if you're not already a contributor, or anything specific you've always wondered about the Drupal community participation in general that you'd like to know more about?
I look forward to reading/answering any questions you might have!
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Women In Open Source
CDMUG was at Flourish 2008 and they organized a presentation about Women in Open Source by Dru Lavigne.
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speak.net.nz getting ready for launch
Hey New Zealand Drupal Chix.
Many organisers of technical conferences, meetups, and dinners want to have more gender-balance in their lineups, but they don't know where to find technical women speakers.
Enter http://speak.net.nz, a simple directory and connections system to help technical women speakers and event organisers to find each other.
It needs a few more women to sign up for launch. The site will launch early April.
If you're a woman working with technology, even if you've never spoken infront of a group before, please register and list your expertise.
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Getting started
I would love to share a "getting started" tip, and this seems like as good a place as any:
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How to improve
My opinion is that the best way to improve this ratio is with consistent, visible demonstrations of success by women who are not unique, too remarkable, or otherwise easily fall into the category of "I can't be like that". In other words, we need high profile women who are "just one of the gals" in the same way that we have lots of high profile male contributors who are "just one of the guys".
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