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In honour of IWD on March 8, some of us in the Ubuntu-Women team want to build a web-based presentation profiling women who are Ubuntu members or Canonical staff working on Ubuntu.

We've got...

Depends on what version of Linux. Gentoo's pretty difficult, Ubuntu's definitely simpler, I bet that any version of Linux under the 1.* kernel would have been pretty tough.

I know it sounds like...

All through my childhood and high school I used to score in the top ten (people not percent) in my province for standardized math tests. I had planned on majoring in math, but in my final years of...

In the past, I'd tried a couple linux distros, and usually gave up more because of the communities than the technical details. If I need help to figure something out, I don't want to be treated like...

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Several times in this section of the forum, it's mentioned that the goal of Ubuntu Women not to separate women from the rest of the community, but rather to support outreach efforts towards women....

I am very excited about them releasing the source for the calendaring server. The Calendar apparently uses the CalDAV standard, but also integrates in Automatic Scheduling, resource scheduling and...

I would agree with you to some degree, except the FLOSSPOLS Women in Free Software Report (or see the presentation with summary - pdf alert) shows that in proprietary software, 28% of the...

The final question really should have had an "other" category. I had no idea where to place myself. Clerical? Administration? Freelancer? None of those seemed to fit.

But, I did it anyways.

I'm surprised that we've reached 9 pages without anyone talking about the general value of diversity.

An example: I'm a 5'2" woman. If I were to design a car by myself or with other short women,...

I actually started my journey to Linux by getting a Mac Mini with OS X Panther on it last year. After using Windows for decades, I was thrilled to have a low-maintenance box that was still...

Good luck on that! I'll be interested in hearing what worked and what was frustrating.

So, it looks like I'll install both Inkscape and Xara for her, and she'll be able to test out both and see...

I have different game interests:
1) Puzzle games: Tetris, Zuma, Frozen Bubble - Just looking for minimal thought, small learning curve for the early levels, with steady increase in difficulty.

2)...

It's a hoary document, but I don't think things have changed that much.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=42862&highlight=repository+create

I don't code, but for women that do, Gnome is having it's own summer of code for three female students to receive $3000 stipends to work on a Gnome-related project for two months this summer.

The...

So it sounds like Inkscape is the winner - even if it's not perfect! I'll be putting that on my list of things to install for her. Thanks so much for the help!

Hey,
I'm setting up an Ubuntu box for a friend who's an artist (photography, paint, clay, pencil, glass, other...). I've been trying to decide what programs to install for her so she can basically...

It's interesting, brain biologists used to think that was true, but more and more they're saying that it's socialization. Studies I've read seem to suggest that women are less likely to enter math...

Use two separate computers and support her choice of distro. Linux is about the freedom to choose. It's awesome that she compiles from scratch...I'm way too lazy.

Wow. This makes me happy to be Canadian. Great response time to an issue of accessibility.

Unfortunately, all of the census envelopes say something about being legally mandated to respond. That's a real problem if they aren't going to make online reponding equally accessible to all...

I was going to fill out the census using my Mac, but now I'm going to purposefully fill it out using my Ubuntu box and send a letter of complaint. If they're going to accept Firefox, then I think...

If you are OK with hosting the tool offsite, you might want to try Writeboard. It's a free tool by 37 signals, and does pretty much all you've requested . Better still, it's free.

I'm not in any...

Printing mailing labels is still so clunky, buggy and unintuitive on OOo. I have to vote for the MS product until the OOo team realises what a central task this is for business-type users of OOo.

Does anyone have any screenshots?