[gnome-women] women developers @ Libre Graphics Meeting 2010

[Femke Snelting <femke constantvzw org>]

Dear all

My name is Femke Snelting and I am working with Constant, Foundation for 
Art and Media. Constant is hosting the Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 
(LGM), taking place in Brussels 27-30 May. The LGM is an important 
annual working conference for free software graphics application 
developers and users. http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org

At past LGMs there were hardly any women presenting work, and we would 
like that to change. To make a start, we want to make sure that female 
developers and users involved in Libre Graphics feel welcome to propose 
talks at:
http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2010/Submit_Talk

Talks can range from 5 to 30 minutes and cover technical developments 
and/or creative work concerning the wide spectrum of Libre graphics. For 
an idea of the kind of talks that happened at other meetings, please 
have a look here:
http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2007/program.html
http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008/index.php?lang=en&action=program
http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009/program.php

If you present a project at LGM, there are some possibilities for support:
- A limited number of participants fitting the criteria of the IFN (see 
below) can travel with a grant from the Francophonie. Contact us 
a.s.a.p. if you think this applies to you or someone you know of.
- Through sponsoring and funding, the LGM-community gathers money to 
reimburse travel costs for developers that cannot afford their journey 
otherwise. Contact us in advance if you need to make use of this; you 
will need to pre-finance your ticket.

If you have any other questions, please e-mail!

best,


Femke Snelting

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Criteria for support by the Institut de la Francophonie numérique:
http://www.francophonie.org/-Technologies-numeriques-.html

- Developers/participants from selected countries: Albania, Armenia, 
Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte 
d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, 
Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Congo DR, Gabon, 
Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Madagascar, 
Mauritius, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
- If possible, equal representation of men and women
- Preferably can speak French

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