Last week I went Ankara for the biggest FOSS event of Turkey!
I was an invited speaker at a panel entitled: “Women in Computing: Career to the Life“. Other speakers were Prof. Dr. Nese Yalabik from METU, chair of Department of Computer Technology and Programming Reyyan Ayfer from Bilkent University, and Fusun Nebil. As you can guess from the panel’s name, the main topic was about women in computer science, how to encourage more women into computing, what to do and what not to do, etc. I specifically talked about academic and social life of a woman computer engineering student, and then I discussed advantages and disadvantages of being a woman in free software and Linux community.
And a pretty good news was, I won an award: “The Most Hard-Working Penguin of 2007″ from Turkish Linux Users Association. It is so sweet, a little crystalline penguin sits on a wood panel:
Anyway, it’s time to work hard about my SoC project. Details are coming soon, wait! ;)
Note: Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to interested in console games for a long time. Steven (author of Linux Quake HOWTO and my team friend of LinuxQuake.org) sent me a screenshot from Tomb Raider Legend. Last time I played Tomb Raider was 6 years ago, and I suprised to see her in this gothic style. Damn cool!
