Ubuntu Women Elections Nomination Call
Its time for elections again! Amber was appointed to lead Ubuntu Women 6 months ago and she did a fantastic job. I’ve worked with Ubuntu Women over the past few months for something or other and they’ve been great to work with. Also, I’ve worked with Amber in various projects and its been an awesome few months. Now, 6 months is up, and its time for election. If you’re a woman and you feel you can lead the group, nominate yourself.
Photo Credit: eagle.dawg on Flickr. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License.
For more details on the nomination process, see the wiki page. Already we have 3 nominations and its time to nudge the people you feel can take hold of the helm. Yes, Penny, I’m talking to you. Go nominate yourself!
Only a few hours left!
The World Play Day competition being conducted by Ubuntu Women is coming to a close. If you want to participate, see the How to Participate page.
Remember, there are 3 prizes being given away!
Community Choice: A Terra A20 netbook with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Jane’s Choice: A Dell 10n with Ubuntu Moblin Remix
Random Draw: A prize pack of random goodies from The Ubuntu Shop and a gold USB necklace from ZaReason
All winning entries also come with a subscription to their choice of either Ubuntu User Magazine or Linux Pro Magazine.
Entries close 2359 May 14, 2010 — mere hours away!
So,what are you waiting for?
Win her a netbook!
I’ve often been amazed by dedication and team work in Ubuntu teams, today I was able to witness some amazing dedication from Melissa Draper and work in the sidelines along with Amber together to draw some attention for Ubuntu Women World Play Day contest.
It started with an IRC conversation and Melissa (a.k.a. elky) complaining about the low microblog infiltration in both twitter or identi.ca about the competition. This got me thinking into what we could do. My crazy ideas included a video ad and a poster about the competition. I got off IRC and got thinking. Then it dawned on me, “Hey! The poster idea is not that crazy.” That realization led to the following conversation on IRC.
<nigelb> elky, got some time?
<nigelb> need some help from that awesome gimp-fu of yours
<elky> nigelb, depends how much time you need
<nigelb> elky, I was thinking about a poster for the competition
<nigelb> hunting through flickr for stuff that can be used with only attribution
We spent around 1 hour hunting through flickr for photos that were shared with a Creative Commons license and Amber found a picture we all liked. Of note, we were entirely distracted by the cute factor in a lot of pictures. Melissa, went to work on the picture we selected, while Amber and I worked on writing a mail to the photographer, Dr. Alec Couros, a professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. Amber worked her magic on the simple mail I had written and turned into some professional sounding stuff before I mailed it.
Around that time, Melissa came up with a cut out, with the background removed, so that we could use it in a poster. I know I’m bad at art and I proved myself today. I spend quite some time working with paper to get a neat poster; I had no clue even to get a rough idea and eventually gave up. Around 4 hours after the initial cut out, Melissa came up with a poster, which we all liked. There were some small corrections with attribution that she fixed and voila! We have a poster! As an icing on the cake, Dr. Couros mailed me back giving his blessings for the photo of his little girl.
Melissa got the final poster and smaller size pictures ready in about 9 hours from the initial idea of the poster. If you happen to know her, please give her a hug. She is elky on irc.freenode.net. It was her amazing work that made it possible to get the posters done.
So, please help spread the word, tweet, dent, blog, and talk to folks in your LoCo to get the word out. Let’s get some participation going folks!
The Women in my Life
No, this is not a post about my girlfriends or my love life. Today is Ada Lovelace Day and planet should be filled with blog posts about it. After starting to contribute to Ubuntu, there are are couple of women whom I’d like to appreciate for their contributions to Ubuntu and for mentoring/helping me when I got stuck
The first team that I was part of in Ubuntu was the Beginners Team and from there on I’ve worked with pleia2 (as we all know her) as part of the UCLP, Classroom Team, and User Days Team. Its wonderful how she gives critical input to help see all angles to an idea and make it rock solid. I also wonder how she managed to spend so much time in between work and real life with us online creatures 
Free hugs by hien_it
I would have never known that quilt is something other than a type of bedding if it wasn’t for maco. I just popped by #ubuntu-motu and was looking for some pointers to start motu work. She guided me step by step through my first bug fix, understand the packaging process and quilt, and sponsored the package too. I still use the logs from that conversation way back in October or November when I’m working on quilt.
Hugs to you pleia2 and maco for being part of Ubuntu and being there to help.
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