Thanks to some offers of sponsorship now being discussed on the volunteers list, LinuxChix will likely be moving to faster web hosting shortly. If you're interested in helping redesign the website or help move it into a different CMS, likely Plone, then you should offer on the volunteers list.

The LinuxChix site and email delivery has moved to slower hosting due to a change in one of the maintainer's employment situation. This means, in particular, that list email delivery will be very slow as outgoing mail from the server is heavily throttled.

People who have significant amounts of bandwidth to spare and who could act as either a mail delivery smarthost or a reverse web proxy might want to discuss possible solutions on the volunteers list.

Laurel Fan is starting a Ruby course on the courses list. Further information is in her announcement.

A new course is about to start on the courses list: tools for participating in Free Software. The first part of the course will briefly cover tools like bug trackers and mailing lists, and the second part will cover version control. See the announcement and the course webpage for more information.

September 10th 2005 is the second annual Software Freedom Day, a global activism day for grassroots efforts to educate the public about Free and Open Source software. You can see if anything is happening in your area by visiting the SFD teams listing.

Women interested in getting involved in Free and Open Source communities and development may be particularly interested in the SFD activities being run by women's groups:

I've created a new section of the LinuxChix site: LinuxChix for researchers. It has two aims: to help researchers working on "women in Free Software" and related topics, and to help us help them by getting them to work with existing research rather than attempting to create it from scratch. (Linux chix have been asked to take part in a number of very similar surveys over the years).

Does anyone have any entries for the bibliography?