Ubuntu Women Day 2016 - Celebrate Women in Free Software! (Broward)

This is a FREE event with free giveaways and raffles! Join the fun!

We are in Room 138.

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Ubuntu Women Day is a day of celebration to help raise awareness and thanks for the women contributors across the Ubuntu Project and other free software initiatives. Ubuntu Women Day marks the anniversary of the Ubuntu Womens Team.

Join us as we join with the Ubuntu meetup group and offering information about Ubuntu and other free software projects being contributed to from right here in South Florida. This is a great time to network with other women in free software, listen to stories from others in various projects, and recognize each other's achievements.

Also at this event, play with Sphero! The latest in the learn-to-code craze. Program this ball to move and change colors and then watch it go!

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from fsf.org:

Free software is software that gives you the user the freedom to share, study and modify it. We call this free software because the user is free.

To use free software is to make a political and ethical choice asserting the right to learn, and share what we learn with others. Free software has become the foundation of a learning society where we share our knowledge in a way that others can build upon and enjoy.

What if there were a worldwide group of talented ethical programmers voluntarily committed to the idea of writing and sharing software with each other and with anyone else who agreed to share alike? What if anyone could be a part of and benefit from this community even without being a computer expert or knowing anything about programming? We wouldn’t have to worry about getting caught copying a useful program for our friends—because we wouldn’t be doing anything wrong.

In fact, such a movement exists, and you can be part of it. The free software movement was started in 1983 by computer scientist Richard M. Stallman (https://www.stallman.org/), when he launched a project (https://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html) called GNU. Then in 1985, Stallman started the Free Software Foundation, a nonprofit with the mission of advocating and educating on behalf of computer users around the world.

Special thanks to Keiser University (http://www.keiseruniversity.edu/) for hosting our event.

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To find out more about Girl Develop It and what it is doing in the South Florida community, see the list of classes scheduled and to request a class to be offered visit http://www.gdimiami.com/calendar.html

Want to take this class, but can't afford it? Apply for a scholarship (https://goo.gl/M6MruR) and you may just get to go for free!

About Girl Develop It:

Girl Develop It (http://www.girldevelopit.com/) (GDI) launched in 2010 with a simple concept; make software development accessible and affordable to all women in New York City with little to no development or training experience. GDI now has 52 chapters and is an international 501(c)3 non-profit organization. The massive growth is projected to help women throughout the globe enhance their skill sets, illuminate their passions or hobbies to make beautiful code and websites, and spread the principles of effective software development.

Learn More:

Visit www.GDIMiami.com (http://www.gdimiami.com/) for more information

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GDI Miami is actively seeking sponsors for future activities. If your company is interested in sponsorship opportunities, please contact GDI Miami at miami@girldevelopit.com.

All attendees are expected to abide by the Girl Develop It Code of Conduct (http://www.girldevelopit.com/codeofconduct).