AussieChix and NZChix are teaming up to take CeBIT by storm. We will be running a stall in the Open Source section of the expo, and the kind people who run the show have even given us a terrific deal: free expo admittance for anyone who reads this!

See the full offer for more details.

Applications for women students to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Colorado in October are open.

See http://gracehopper.org/2008/participate/student-scholarships/

The Open Source Developers' Conference 2008 is a conference run by open source developers, for developers and business people. It covers numerous programming languages across a range of operating systems, and related topics such as business processes, licensing, and strategy. Talks vary from introductory pieces through to the deeply technical. It is a great opportunity to meet, share, and learn with like-minded individuals.

This year, the conference will be held in Sydney, Australia during the first week of December (1st - 5th). If you are an Open Source maintainer, developer or user, the organising committee would encourage you to submit a talk proposal on open source tools, solutions, languages or technologies you are working with. For more details and to submit your proposal(s), go to the Call for Papers webpage. Proposals are due June 30.

As of the end of May Mary Gardiner will not be organising the Chix pre-SLUG meetups. The last one she will organise will be Friday May 30.

If someone else wants to take over, please read below, and email the AussieChix list.

The AussieChix event calendar is now available via Google calendar. There is also an iCal feed for users of other calendar programs.

The Google Australia and New Zealand Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship is now open for applications from women who are undergraduates or postgraduates in a computing field with at least one year remaining. They can be enrolled at any Australian or New Zealand university and can be citizens, permanent residents, or international students.

The scholarship prize is $5000 and finalists get $1000.

Congratulations to Anna Buttfield, Carol Hoare and Sonia Hamilton, who were elected, respectively, Vice-President, Secretary and Ordinary Committee Member of the Sydney Linux Users Group on 28th March 2008.

Brenda Wallace of LinuxChix NZ has founded geekspeakr.com, a global website where women who can speak on technical topics (not limited to Linux or Free Software) can list themselves, to assist conference organisers in finding women to speak at their conferences

If you are willing to give talks on technical subjects, create a profile at geekspeakr.com.

The 16th Australian System Administrators' Conference (SAGE-AU 2008) is calling for papers and tutorials relevant to the profession of System Administration. This year their theme is Greening our Computers. They particularly encourage talks on how to make carbon-neutral data centres, working with low-power devices and similar. If you have any talks or tutorials on this kind of material, please submit them!

The call for papers closes on 31st March 2008. The conference will be held 11th–15th August 2008 at the Holiday Inn, Adelaide.

More details on the SAGE-AU Call For Papers page.