The first round of talks have been confirmed for the Haecksen miniconf at linux.conf.au 2013. The current talks are:

10:40: Skye Croeser: Feminism, anarchism and FOSS
11:05: Denise Paolucci: overcoming impostor syndrome
11:30: break
11:40: unannounced
12:05: Joh Pirie-Clark Security
12:30: lunch
1:20: Kathy Reid Less flack, moar hack!
1:45: Fee Plumley: Open Source Cities
2:10: break
2:20: Ruth Ellison: Recipe for making geek jewellery
2:45: Katie Miller Educating Girls about FOSS
3:00: afternoon tea
3:40: Jacinta Richardson : writing a good abstract/getting your talk accepted at a conference

Linux Australia is offering financial assistance for selected community members to attend LCA2013:

Linux Australia is restarting the Regional Delegates Program from previous years. These grants aim to reduce the financial barriers to attending linux.conf.au 2013, by subsidising the registration and travel costs of contributors to the FOSS community who are students, on a low income, and others who would otherwise have difficulty affording the cost of attending the conference.

[…] Applicants will be selected on the following criteria:

• Participation in FOSS projects – art, hardware, software, documentation

Last minute impromptu gathering since a few OWOOTers are coming to Sydney for the Open Source Developers Conference. We'll meet tomorrow for afternoon tea before the CMS Expo.

When: Tue Dec 4, from 4pm (people will probably be there until about 6 or a bit after)

Where: Lindt Chocolate Cafe, Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling Harbour.

LOCATION NOTE Sydney has more than one Lindt cafe! Make sure you are going to the Cockle Bay one! See a Google Map for the area.

The easiest way to find the cafe is to look for the outdoor fountain (you can see a circle of water on the satellite image), the cafe is one of the outlets behind it.

The Outreach Program for Women is a three month internship program for women to contribute to Free Software projects as full-time paid (USD5000) interns. Internships will normally run from January 2 until April 2, and this round 20 internships are being offered across 10 projects, including GNOME, Wikimedia and Mozilla.

They're especially interested in applications from the Southern Hemisphere, since the timing works relatively well with our academic year. But note that you do NOT have to be a student to apply (nor necessarily southern!).

Deadline is December 3: by then you must have already made a contribution to the project you are interested in.

The Haecksen miniconference will be held at linux.conf.au 2013 for the seventh year running, this time at ANU in Canberra. Stay tuned for more details.

Attendees will be required to register for the linux.conf.au conference.

The Haecksen miniconf will be in Canberra in 2013, as part of linux.conf.au, on either January 28 or 29.

Haecksen call for papers is open!

With huge recent increases in the number of women speaking in the linux.conf.au main program, this year, the Haecksen miniconf is looking for talks by women that encompass the wide range of activities that women are involved in throughtout open source.

The Haecksen miniconf seeks people involving in

• open software
• open hardware
• community involvement
• hackerspaces
• smart crafting
• advocacy
• professional development

Today linux.conf.au 2013, to be held in Canberra in January, announced five additional miniconferences. This includes the Haecksen miniconf for women in open technology, run by OWOOT volunteers each year:

Haecksen: This miniconference is designed to encompass the wide range of activities that women are involved in throughout open source, and has historically attracted women involved in areas as diverse as software development, hardware hacking, and smart crafting, along with a wide array of other disciplines within free and open source software.

Two months have already passed sinced the June Girl Geek meetup... that means we're having the next Girl Geeks meetup at Atlassian! Come and join other girl geeks on Tuesday 4 September for an evening of great talks, nibblies, and mingling!

More info and RSVP at Eventbrite.

OWOOT member Silvia Pfeiffer has been appointed as part of the editorial team of the W3C HTML5 specification.

She writes:

[W]hen invited, I decided to offer my spare time to the W3C.