The next Free Software Melbourne meeting is about encouraging women in the free software community, all the details are on the website.

From 2:20pm at the Haecksen miniconf at linux.conf.au on Monday January 16, Valerie Aurora will be running a workshop especially for our male allies. Please personally invite the men you know to come along and have some fun with us. They will find out why we want and need allies, and what to do when they find themselves in an awkward situation. Val will run through some specific scenarios that we've all seen, and how they can play out differently when there is an ally involved.

Register your interest in attending the allies workshop at the Haecksen website.

The Haecksen miniconf @ linux.conf.au schedule has been announced!

Schedule

The miniconf will be on Monday Jan 16 in Ballarat. It includes talks by Sara Falamaki, Valerie Aurora, Mary Gardiner and Sarah Novotny, and a panel including Pia Waugh, Selena Deckelmann, Leslie Hawthorn and Danni Madeley.

See the full schedule for more information.

Attending

The miniconf is open to those registered to attend linux.conf.au. See registration information and prices.

Thanks

Thanks to Lana Brindley, the organiser of the Haecksen miniconf in 2012.

The Ada Initiative is holding the very first AdaCamp in mid January in Melbourne. This is going to bring the brightest women in open technology to town - the perfect opportunity for a Girl Geek Dinner. Quality food in a gorgeous setting, we'll have the place to ourselves. There's going to be so many interesting women attending this - make sure you are too, to start your 2012 networking with a bang!

The event follows AdaCamp on Saturday January 14. Register by Jan 7.

Find out more and register at the event webpage.

The very first Ada Initiative AdaCamp will be held in Melbourne Australia on Saturday January 14 2012.

AdaCamp will have an exciting, inspiring mix of people from various parts of the “open technology and culture” world, each of whom brings something special to the event.

AdaCamp attendance will be by invitation: if you would like the organizers to consider you, please apply. Applications are now open: apply to attend AdaCamp. Applications will close Wednesday December 14 2011.

Date: Tuesday 6th December

Time: 6:00pm

Location: Atlassian is located at the beautiful heritage building located on the corner of Sussex and Market St (address: 173-185 Sussex St)

More information is at this forum post, and RSVP at this form.

OWOOT member Brianna Laugher will be a guest on Melbourne's 3RRR community radio station at 8:15am Friday November 18.

Listen on 855 AM in Melbourne or via their streaming.

Let's have a WOOT MOOT! It has been much too long since the Melbourne LinuxChix got together, and of course with OWOOT now we might even have other different people. So! We're mooting next week

When: 7pm, Wednesday 23rd November 2011
Where: Bo De Trai (Vegetarian Vietnamese restaurant)
94 Hopkins Street, Footscray, 3011, Victoria
RSVP: to the OWOOT list 21st November.

Everyone is welcome, bring your geek friends (and RSVP for them). We may need to make a booking.

Where: Balcony Bar, 46 Erskine Street, Sydney.

When: Monday November 14. We'll meet from 5:30pm for drinks and have dinner from 6:45 or so if there's enough interest.

If you're coming for dinner, please RSVP by Fri Nov 11.

If you don't know anyone by sight, you might want Mary's mobile number, in which case, email her and ask.