Re: beware: this report can be a bit long!

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Hi Pinar,

Le mercredi 09 mai 2007, à 21:34 +0300, Pınar Yanardağ a écrit :
>    I was a speaker in a panel called: "Women in Computing: Career to the
>    Life". Other speakers were two Profs from METU and Bilkent Universities,
>    and a business woman who rewarded as one of the most successfull business
>    woman of the world by United Nations. I talked a bit about academic and
>    social life of a woman computer engineering student, and then I talked
>    about advantages and disadvantages of being a woman in free software and
>    Linux community. (imho being in free software is one of the best area to
>    be interested in and work for a woman - as sharing and helping are
>    keywords of our community - but it's also hard to understand to see less
>    woman in community while comparing with other comp. areas.. ).

Just wondering: did the Women's Summer Outreach Program that we
organized last year play a role in your decision to apply for the Summer
of Code?

>    Anyway, after four days (2 days goes to travelling by bus! :( ) there was
>    the biggest award ceremony of FOSS in Turkey- there're six categories:
>    "the most hardworking penguin of the year", "the best successful
>    maintainer of the year", "the best institutional corporation of the year",
>    "the most successful press of the year", "the best free software project
>    of the year" and "the most successful application project by using free
>    software".
> 
>    Hmm, and i won "the most hardworking penguin of the year"! ;) There's a
>    cute crystalline penguin sits on a wood panel. You can see what it's
>    looking like from my blog entry: [1]http://pinguar.org/blog/?p=16

Heh, congratulations! It's really a nice award.

Vincent

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Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés.