<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<br>[crossposted to Linux Chix, Linux Australia, LCA and GGD lists, apologies if you see this a few times.] <br><br>I'm trying to get this message out to lists frequented by technical women & students, please forward to any mailing lists or friends/colleagues who you'd like to see presenting at LCA. :)<br>
I'm
a member of the Linux Chix list and I'm trying to encourage more women
to submit papers to LCA 2009. I'm not part of
the LCA 2009 organising committee, this is not an "official" thing just
something I'm organising with the help of a couple of volunteers.<br>If you're a female geek (professional or student) and thinking of submitting a tech talk to LCA, then I'd like to tell you that a couple of experienced speakers have volunteered to make some time to read draft proposals & give feedback to women who are interested in presenting at LCA. The idea is to encourage women (especially ones who haven't applied or presented before) and hopefully increase their chances of getting selected.<br>
<br>The timetable I'd like to work to is:<br><br>1) You contact me asap (<a href="mailto:sarah.stokely@gmail.com" target="_blank">sarah.stokely@gmail.com</a>)to let me know you're interested in having someone vet your talk. I will provide you with contact details of your "mentor" and you will forward your draft proposal to them by this Friday, 25 July (yes, this Friday!)<br>
2) Your mentor will get a week to look at your proposal, and will be asked to send you some feedback by August 1. (so you'll then have a week to do
any further tweaking before submitting your proposal).<br>4) Call for papers ends on 8 August, hopefully many excellent proposals will be submitted including a record number by women. :)<br>
<br>Please note: There are a lot of things you can do yourself to improve your proposal before it even goes to your mentor. Please check out the following.<br><br><u>Information on LCA for people wanting to give a paper:</u><br>
<br>There's heaps of information on the LCA 2009 website on what kind
of papers they look for, what format the presentations take, etc, so
head over there and take a look. Note that the call for papers
(abstracts, not the full paper!) is 8th August - so it's time to get
moving if you haven't already. :)<br>
<br>Here's information about the call for presentations:<a href="http://marchsouth.org/media/news/6" target="_blank"> http://marchsouth.org/media/news/6</a><br>
<br>Here's some helpful information for presenters including what's involved in being a speaker, and how long the talks go for:<a href="http://marchsouth.org/programme/presenter_faq" target="_blank"> http://marchsouth.org/programme/presenter_faq</a><br>
<br>and
here's some information about how to make your proposal even better to
increase it's chances of getting selected. (Please read this before you
ask one of our helpful volunteers to put their time into vetting your
paper). <br>
<br><a href="http://puzzling.org/logs/thoughts/2006/October/9/lca-reviews" target="_blank">http://puzzling.org/logs/thoughts/2006/October/9/lca-reviews</a> (Getting a talk into <a href="http://linux.conf.au/" target="_blank">Linux.conf.au</a>)<br>
<br><a href="http://advogato.org/article/549.html" target="_blank">http://advogato.org/article/549.html</a> (How to get a conference paper accepted)<br><br><br>Thanks.<br>-- <br>Sarah Stokely<br><a href="http://www.theopensourcereport.com/" target="_blank">www.theopensourcereport.com</a><br>
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