Women's Dinner
The fifth annual women's dinner at GUADEC will take place on Monday, July 28 at 6:30pm at Le Monceau, 6 Place Saint Thomas, 67000 Strasbourg. A group of people will be meeting at 6pm in front of the conference venue to walk over together. Please RSVP below.
Women (cis and trans) and genderqueer people are invited to attend if interested. Having a women's event provides an additional opportunity for women in the community to meet each other, and establish a connection and a trusting environment for discussing common problems. In particular, in a community with few women contributors, women with any experience level often enjoy knowing and having an informal mentorship relationship with women who are more established as contributors than them. A women's event is conductive for making such connections. You can learn more about why women in free software find events for women valuable in this article.
We certainly need everyone in the community to help support and mentor women getting involved, and encourage you to get involved as a mentor in the Outreach Program for Women and to attend How to be an ally to women in tech talk.
Please RSVP for women's dinner by adding your name here.
- Giselle Reis
- Rosanna Yuen
- Oralia Silva Rueda
Organizational Notes
- Dinner organizer should send individual e-mails letting women and genderqueer people attending GUADEC know about the dinner, so that those who are not interested in attending don't get multiple e-mails in the thread. (Using BCC is another option, but there is a risk recipients won't get the e-mail in their inbox.)