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Mary Gardiner, from Linuxchix Australia is visiting wellington on the 27th August.

We're meeting at the Matterhorn for Dinner with Mary and her Andrew.

Matterhorn is in Cuba Mall, near bucket fountain.

We meet from 17:30pm onwards, having dinner approx 6pm - look for us in the Den (if it's not already taken).

Wellington first girl geek dinner is at 6pm, on the 12th of March, at Long Xiang in Dixon street.

Tickets are $5 for students, and $15 for everyone else. This includes a 3 course meal.

There have been 2 previous dinners in Auckland, and another is planned in auckland.

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Wellington linuxchix, Brenda Wallace is presenting "PostgreSQL/MySQL bake-off" @ Wellington Perl Mongers

6:00pm Tuesday 11 September 2007
Level 2, Eagle Technology House
150 Willis Street [map]

Monthly meetup of Wellington Linuxchix.

Location : Mojo Invincible

http://zoomin.co.nz/nz/wellington/wellington+central/willis+street/161/-mojo+coffee/

Agenda: World Domination!

Ideas for places to promote LinuxChix

1. Vic careers day - Manjula mentioned Jessica Campbell might be someone who could help
2. Girl guides - Brenda to organise

LinuxChix Tech Talks

Technical evenings with 2 - 3 talks ranging from extremely technical to easily accessible, given by Chix & invited guests. Mingling and tim-tams in between!

Talk ideas

• Managing systems with cfengine (Jes)
• Gender & gaming (Jes & Joh)
• Licensing in a nutshell (Brenda)
• Automatix (Making it just fucking work) (Manjula)
• Digital photography (Jes, Brenda?)

First tech talk speakers

Provision for 'guest speakers' who are invited, which would allow us to invite male speakers if we so wanted but ensures that women's talks are given preference.

A clear moderation policy would be required as well as a code of conduct to ensure that if situations occur where we feel men are dominating the discussion that we can easily point to why this is inappropriate and take whatever action is required.

A suggestion for how to implement this from Joh - 'Blamers Bingo' (reference?)

Venue

IBM is a possibility during business hours, after hours not so
much. Catalyst or Vic university were suggested for possible after hours
venues.

Social event ideas!

Watching of Pride & Prejudice on the projector at Jes' place, girls only.
(The venue is confirmed, we just need to agree on a time and arrange for more beanbags)

LASER STRIKE :D

LinuxChix vs targets (Why have I written down 'dave2' as a target? Do we remember?)

Other miscellaneous items

Manjula to set up an e-library for Chix to register for swapping books

Weekly Linux skill-sharing session called Linux Play

every Wednesday at Oblong, starting at 6pm.

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Kia ora koutou

I do voluntary work at the Oblong Infoshop in the Left Bank (off Cuba Mall). A woman came in the other day asking about the Ubuntu CDs we have been distributing (we are out of the nice printed ones but some more have been ordered and we can burn copies of a range of Linux distros on request) and told me about LinuxChix. Just thought I'd send some information FYI about other Linux-friendly groups around Poneke. It's really exciting to see what you're doing and I will pop along to the installfest to meet you all if I'm in town.

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