[Systers-dev] Systers Code Sprint at GHC 2009

[Sarah Mei]

I am now EVEN MORE bummed that I'm going to miss GHC this year. Sarah
Allen and I have been doing some  woman-centric Ruby hackspaces here
in San Francisco and the energy has always been really great. I hope
lots of good stuff comes out of this one too.


On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Terri Oda<terri at zone12.com> wrote:
> Would I ever love to participate!
>
> I'm a bit out of practice when it comes to actual python hacking for Mailman
> (I've transitioned to a more community-building/documentation role while I'm
> finishing my PhD) but I did write most of the user level documentation, and
> I'm one of a handful of people on the Mailman steering committee, so I've
> got some very direct influence on the direction of the project.  (Lately,
> I'm working on coordinating some usability improvements for MM3.)  And,
> conveniently, I'm attending GHC.
>
> So I'm totally there, and I'll try to brush up on my python hacking pre-GHC
> so I can provide some more technical help too.
>
>  Terri
>
> Jennifer Redman wrote:
>>
>> Would any Systers who are attending GHC 2009 be interested in
>> participating
>> in a Systers' Code Sprint -
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(software_development) - to work on
>> improving parts of the Systers' Infrastructure?
>> We need Python programmers, women willing to write some documentation, sql
>> experts, Mailman experts and well anyone who might be interested in
>> sitting
>> in a room with other women and writing some code -- other types of
>> contributions also welcome.
>>
>> I'm going to move this conversation (apart from logistical announcements)
>> over to systers-dev - http://systers.org/mailman/listinfo/systers-dev --
>> please join us over there and/or let me know if you are interested in
>> participating.