AdaLovelaceDay/2012

An event for women and their friends

Every year the celebrate internationally Ada Lovelace Day. This date refers, above all, the great of programming Ada Byron, born in Engalnd, in the nineteenth-century. Ada, for those who do not already know, was a self-taught math responsible for creating the first computer program ever known in the world, algorithms for calculations used in the analytical engine of Charles Babbage. She entered the history of computing as being the first computer programmer ever heard. This date also serves to celebrate the achievements of Ada is also used to discover and encourage other Adas around the world to engage with technology and science.

When and How

This year, Ada Lovelace Day will take place on October 16th and KDE decided to celebrate this date promoting some activities to integrate more people, especially women, but not only them, to our community. The idea is we promote some tutorials on IRC - #kde-tutorials - or Google Hangout on some KDE tools and how to get involved with the community.

IRC

• What is it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat.
• If you don't have any IRC client installed or you can not install one, you can access IRC in your browser: http://webchat.freenode.net/.
• You don't have any experience using IRC? No worries, it is easy. You can try this tutorial: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IRC/Tutorial.

KDE community really cares about you

Let's invite everyone: friends and family, boyfriend and girlfriend to celebrate with us!

Schedule

Check out our schedule (in UTC time) below:

• 14:00 | KDE Testing - how to become a tester.

 Coach: Myriam.
Myriam used to work as a pharmacist and medical translator for 25+ years and now spends her time between triaging bugs, testing software and grooming cats.

• 15:30 | LaTeX with Kile

 Coach: Melissa.
 Melissa is a math girl, professor at a University in South America. 

• 17:00 | An easy way to start in KDE - write a Plasmoid in QML.

 Coach: Camila Ayres.
 Camila is a Programer, KDE Person and housewife. 
 With this tutorial you are going to learn about QML and Plasmoids (plasma widgets) and how easy is to get into KDE world.

• 18:30 | Ask your question about getting involved in KDE

  Coachs: Lydia and Frederik.

Doubts? More information?

Talk to us in the IRC channel #kde-women. We will be happy to help you. Remember: there is no stupid question.