<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi KDE Women,<br><br>Want to meet awesome women in technology?
Submit your talk proposal now.</div><div><br>The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women
in Computing Conference will be held October 14-16, 2015 in Houston, TX
(<a href="http://gracehopper.org/2015/">http://gracehopper.org/2015/</a>). Founded in 1996, the Grace Hopper
Celebration of Women in Computing is an annual conference that provides
attendees with technical sessions covering a wide range of subjects as
well as a rich offering of professional development sessions for
attendees at all career levels. <br><br></div>Heidi Ellis and I are co-chairing the new Open Source Software Track.<br><div><br>We
would like to invite presentations, lightening talks, panels,
workshops, and birds of a feather to the Open Source Track. Submissions
that discuss Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) development are
welcomed and we are looking for submissions that enable more
interactions between presenters and the audience. We’d like to see
successful stories that encourage and teach participants how to use and
deploy the best about FOSS. Possible topics include:<br><br><ul><li>FOSS intellectual property, copyrights and licensing</li><li>Non-Governmental Organizations and FOSS</li><li>Incorporating FOSS within organization’s development lifecycle</li><li>Lessons from FOSS for conventional development</li><li>Successful stories about encouraging diversity in FOSS projects</li><li>FOSS and social & humanitarian issues</li><li>FOSS technologies, in particular how to use them or how to get started.</li><li>Adoption/ use / acceptance of FOSS</li><li>Dissemination / redistribution / crowdsourcing of FOSS systems</li><li>Expanding scientific research and technology development methods through openness</li><li>Adopting innovation in FOSS projects</li><li>Role of FOSS in ICT and sustainable development</li><li>Learning, knowledge sharing, collaboration, control or conflict in FOSS projects</li><li>FOSS usability, scalability, maintainability and other quality issues</li><li>Talk or workshop on specific FOSS technologies, such as version control</li></ul><br>To submit: <a href="http://gracehopper.org/call-for-participation/open-source/">http://gracehopper.org/call-for-participation/open-source/</a><br><br>Let me know if you have any questions.<br><br><br>Stormy<br></div></div>