After more than 5 years of service as LinuxChix Coordinator, Jenn Vesperman is ready to pass on this position to a new person. For details on how to nominate someone for coordinator, see the post on the announce mailing list:

http://mailman.linuxchix.org/pipermail/announce/2007-March/000536.html

We are waiting 24 hours to start the discussion to let everyone interested join the relevant mailing list.

The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) will host a Women in Open Source Event as part of their upcoming 2007 conference, SCALE 5x.

The Women in Open Source event will be held on February 9, 2007 at the Los Angeles Airport Westin Hotel.

A new women in technology group has formed: Wikichix. Founded in response to discussions of systemic gender bias in Wikipedia and the inability of a number of women to contribute to those discussions, WikiChix is a wiki and mailing list for female wiki editors to discuss issues of gender bias in wikis, to promote wikis to potential female editors, and for general discussion of wikis in a friendly female-only environment.

There was a relatively short DNS outage at around 18:00 GMT Friday December 1, lasting for several hours. During this time, you would have received name errors trying to connect to any linuxchix.org site, and mail would have been delayed.

This error has now been fixed. Mail delivery should continue and delayed mail will arrive over the next few hours; please do not resend mails to linuxchix.org addresses unless you receive a bounce saying there was a permanent error.

The server that hosts linuxchix.org will be down for approximately 30 minutes on Tuesday, USA time, due to a relocation.

The GNOME Foundation is sponsoring three women students to hack on projects for GNOME for two months in return for a stipend of USD3000, Summer of Code-style. Applications to be one of the students are open immediately and close on July 1 2006.