MiniDebConf Bucharest 2015

On the weekend of May 16th and 17th, Bucharest will host a Mini DebConf with both talks and social events, to which everyone in Debian is invited but the speakers in the talks are all people who identify themselves as female. We consider this important to:

Encourage women who haven't yet given their first DebConf talk

Provide role models for women who are interested in contributing

Debunk the myth that there are not enough women who can give talks in DebConf

The idea behind the conference is not to talk about women in free software, or women in debian, but rather to make discussion about Debian subjects more inclusive for women.

Live streaming

If you couldn't make it in time to Bucharest, you can still follow the talks, thanks to the work done by the Romanian Linux User Group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDEbtLarAw0.

Venue

The University Politehnica of Bucharest has agreed to host us for this MiniDebConf. It will take place in the recently built library

More information and instructions on how to get there in the Venue page.

Registration

Help us in the organization and logistics by registering in the wiki.

Schedule

We have assembled a very interesting set of talks, appealing both to newcomers and to old time Debian Developers, with well known speakers as well as speakers that will be given their first talk outside of their local LUG. It promisses to be a very exciting weekend!

You can find the complete schedule in the schedule page and talk descriptions in the Talks wiki page.

Lightning Talks

On Sunday, there will be time for people to present short talks (5 minutes or less) about any subject they want. If you want to present your a lightning talk, please add it to the wiki.

How to get there

Some information about all the available options to get the venue in How to get there wiki page.

Accommodation and food

Some ideas to find accommodation in Accommodation wiki page.

Some places to eat close to the meeting in Food wiki page.

Kids

We expect to have some self-organized child-care. If you are planning to come with kids, please visit Kids wiki page.

If you want to attend the conference, but are unable to cover the costs, please contact us! We don't have a big budget, but we will make our best to help. Naturally, priority will be given to participants who have an accepted talk.

We are currently looking for companies or organizations that might be interested in sponsoring this MiniDebConf. If you are interested, or you have contacts with an organization that might be interested, please write to us to sponsors@bucharest2015.mini.debconf.org.

Contact

Contact the team on the public mailing list debconf-mini-bucharest@lists.debian.org or find us on IRC on public channel #debian-women at irc.debian.org.