Video available of November 2007 General Talk

For those who missed Melissa Draper's presentation ('From Equality to 
Diversity: The Road Less Taken') due to the last-minute emergency change, 
Melissa has made available the video of her delivering the same talk at CLUG 
in June:

  http://geekosophical.net/misc/clug-june07/

Due to equipment failure, we were unfortunately unable to obtain a complete 
recording of her talk at SLUG. I can say, however, that it was very well 
received, with a lively Q&A session afterwards.



On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Unfortunately, we are no longer able to offer the Careers Panel at this
> month's SLUG meeting. In its place we will have the following:
>
>
> ** Melissa Draper - From Equality to Diversity: The Road Less Taken **
>
> This paper describes how due to the nature of participation, the Open
> Source community can excel in diversity, whilst at the same time fall short
> for reasons of active and passive discrimination. Using gender imbalance as
> an example, aspects of diversity failures such as identifying causes,
> reparative actions and the reasons for doing so are discussed.
>
> This is the same talk as was delivered at CLUG in June and at OSDC earlier
> this week.
>
> More information at:
>
>   http://www.cgpublisher.com/conferences/107/proposals/25/index_html
>   http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux/2007-June/017886.html
>
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > == November SLUG Monthly Meeting ==
> >
> > You can read this announcement on the Web at
> > http://www.slug.org.au/node/87
> >
> >
> > When:
> >    18.30 - 20.30, Friday, 30 November, 2007
> >
> > We start at 18:50 but we ask that people arrive 20 minutes early so we
> > can all get into the building and start on time. Please do not arrive
> > before 18:00, as it may hinder business activities for our host!
> >
> > Appropriate signage and directions will be posted on the building.
> >
> >
> > Where:
> >    Atlassian[1], 173-185 Sussex Street, Sydney
> >    (corner of Sussex and Market Street)
> >
> > Entry is via the rear on Slip Street. There are stairs going down along
> > the outside of building from Sussex St to near the entrance. A map of the
> > area and directions can be found here[2].
> >
> >
> > = Talks =
> >
> > ** Jeff Waugh and guests - Careers Panel **
> >
> > Jeff Waugh will lead a discussion of issues surrounding employment and
> > careers in the FOSS world.
> >
> > ** Jamie Wilkinson - Linux authentication internals **
> >
> > Jamie Wilkinson will be treating you all to a relaxing jaunt through
> > glibc's nameservice switch, or what goes on under the hood of
> > /etc/nsswitch.conf. In particular, we'll look at how it interoperates
> > with LDAP, why nscd got invented, and all of the problems therein. This
> > is a warm-up talk to one of similar content to be presented at LCA 2008.
> >
> >
> > = Meeting Schedule =
> >
> >     * 6:15pm: Open Doors
> >     * 6.40pm: The Usual Suspects
> >     * 6:45pm: General Talk (see above)
> >     * 7:30pm: Intermission
> >     * 7:45pm: Split into two groups for
> >         * In-depth Talk (see above)
> >         * SLUGlets: Linux Q&A and other miscellany
> >     * 8:30pm: Dinner
> >
> >
> > We hope to see you there!
> >
> > - Sridhar
> >
> >
> >
> > [1] http://www.atlassian.com
> > [2] http://tinyurl.com/35fxes

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