Archive for February 8th, 2008

Posted on February 8, 2008 - by jono

LugRadio Live UK 2008 Dates Announced

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, I am pleased to announce that the LugRadio Live UK 2008 dates have been finally confirmed, and the event to rule all other events will be taking place on the 19th and 20th July 2008 at the Wolverhampton Union Student Union, Wolverhampton, England. It is going to rock harder than an entire fleet of cars, being made out of rock, drag racing them at high speed and then driving them into the grand canyon. Rock, with a healthy chunk of roll, thrown in for good measure.

This is the same venue as where we held LugRadio Live UK 2006, and we have some incredible things planned for the event. Right now we are deep in LugRadio Live USA 2008 plans, but the ball is rolling for UK plans, so if you would like to speak, head over and see this page. Also, if you would like to exhibit at LugRadio Live UK 2008, send us a mail to show AT lugradio DOT org.

So, stick the dates in your diary, bring it on.

Posted on February 8, 2008 - by jono

Women in Open Source

Currently over at SCALE in Los Angeles and the Women In Open Source track has just kicked off today – looks like it is going to be an excellent day, with some facinating tracks. It is being kicked off by my friend Allison Randell, who is also speaking at LugRadio Live USE 2008. Speaking of which, we have worked hard to try and get the demographic of women up at LugRadio Live – although we have a number of women who attend as visitors, the speaking rosta has been somewhat devoid of women, for no other reason than the lack of papers being submitted. This year I am pleased to see that we have a number of women confirmed – Danese Cooper, Val Henson, Allison Randal, Belinda Lopez and Kristen Accardi, and we hope to see more women participating as we finish off confirming speakers.

One person who has been inspiring me in much of this is my good friend, Emma Jane Hogbin, who I think really gets the issues involved, and will hopefully be presenting at LugRadio Live UK 2008. We have talked quite a bit on the phone about how to encourage more women in Open Source, and she is spending some of her efforts with the Ubuntu Women project. She sent her slides over and they look excellent, and particularly amusing too.