Winter butterflies

So we go
running after winter butterflies
driven snow dripping pure
and blood.

And we know
we all die sometimes
with a glad
in the hole
of the heart.

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Rise already eclipsed
this rising sun
black as
an oil tear
sliding beside the length
of a shovel arm.

Deeper and deeper
only white bones
remain.

Where is the gate
to my seething blood?

Maybe in the hum
of your thoughts.

Ubuntu Women @ GGD!

It’s with a great thrill that I announce the birth of a partnership between Ubuntu Women-it and Girl Geek Dinners!

Thanks to Silvia Bindelli and the work she has made with the branch of GGD localized in Milan, they asked us to write some articles and how-to about Ubuntu.

In the first one (that I have written) I’ve presented the main values of our Community, the Ubuntu Promises, our working team, the ways in which is possible collaborate in translating, developing, promoting activities.

This one will be followed by many other guides written by other Ubuntu Women-it members which deal more technical matters as Installation and disk partition, media player and GIMP, Internet browsing and social networking.

Furthermore Silvia and me are working on a four hand article concerning DE in which we could explain features of GNOME (that is my DE) and KDE (hers one).

Articles are scheduled monthly and will be published on www.girlgeekdinnersitalia.com pages.

Moreover, next week, on Friday 19^th we’ll attend to next GGD event in Rome, that I cared, where we’ll have three speech about Open Source, Ubuntu Women project and donne@softwarelibero list.

The happening will be promoted by Impresa Semplice, a branch of Telecom Italia and it’s open to everyone: the first 130 booking are free of charge and will be served a light dinner in a very friendly and smart place, characterised by a unique post-industrial architecture, a former textile plant now place for female cutting edge events.

It will be a nice way to communicate and we hope to involve a female public in the FLOSS world.

 

Further informations are available on GGD Blog http://www.girlgeekdinnersroma.com/

Article about Ubuntu is at http://www.girlgeekdinnersitalia.com/2011/02/ubuntu-unintroduzione/ (italian)

List of planned guides will be soon published at http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/It

A bit(e) about Women, Italy and FLOSS

It will be pleasant (or I hope so) to know some news, some good news from Italy (probably better than newspaper’s ones!).

I’d like to inform everyone whose may concerns, that is born a new list donne@softwarelibero.it gathering women involved in free software.

A little story about us…

In Perugia, we had a Ubuntu – Debian Italian Community meeting and there were the opportunity to talk about female involvement in both Ubuntu and Debian Community.

But there was a Fedora Ambassador too and many other women who study and collaborate in free software… so here the idea: a single list for all!

The List

The list is simply donne@softwarelibero.it and http://www.fsugitalia.org/donne/doku.php is the related Wiki. We had a IRC Channel too #donne-softwarelibero.

Our aims

Of course our aim is to grow feminine involvement in free software movement, but is to know each other too, a place to meet and build friendly relations with everyone, women or men, who are interested in feminine matters.

I’m been very pleased in Debian project leader Stefano Zacchiroli’s interest, and I’m sure this can’t be greet less enthusiastically even in Ubuntu side!

Cheers!

Flavia

Ubuntu @ SMAU

Hello world! Hello Planet!

I’m Flavia and I’m a member of Italian LoCo Team.

This is my first post here on Ubuntu Planet!  I (finally) have found the right way to share my ideas and tell you some of the things I make here, in this slice of world called Rome, Italy.

So let’s start!

Next week, the 21st October I’ll be in Milan with Luca Ferretti @SMAU! Ubuntu will land in the heart of tech-fairy in Italy and this will be a great opportunity to meet a different target. WOW really exciting challenge!

Then, on friday 22nd we’ll be in Siena @ GNUnisi Day (thank you Paolo Sammicheli!) and I’ll try to carve out a small amount of time to talk about Ubuntu Women-it and our effort to involve feminine partecipation in FLOSS.

Finally on Saturday, we’ll be @ Rome University for Linux day!

What a week!

If you are in the neighborhood you’re welcome! Otherwise stay tuned, I’ll summarize next time!