Debian Women Project Sponsors Online Debian Packaging Training

11/17/2010

Want to know more about Debian Packaging, Git, Python Libraries and more? The Debian Women Project is sponsoring a series of online learning sessions on those topics.

Starting tomorrow, Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 20:00 UTC, weekly IRC classes will be offered through the Debian Women Project. The Classes will take place in the #debian-women IRC channel.

The schedule (subject to change) is as follows:

Session Trainer Date Time Duration
Introduction to Debian Packaging Lars Wirzenius Thursday, 18th November 20:00 UTC 2 hours
Using Git David Paleino Thursday, 25th November 21:00 UTC  
Python libraries/application packaging Piotr Ożarowski Thursday, 2nd December 20:00 UTC 2 hours

The Debian Women Project was started in May of 2004 and aims to increase women's participation in the Debian Project by increasing the visibility of women in the project, offer mentoring programs, opportunities for collaboration and more.

More information on how to participate in these classes and the Debian Women Project can be found on the wiki.

( Amber Graner)