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Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference took place again this year in San Francisco, kicking off with the Steve Jobs keynote.

The iPhone 4 announcement came as no surprise to any Gizmodo readers, but for most developers, this didn’t matter: the conference highlights typically come AFTER the keynote anyway.  And we were rewarded with a new XCode, Safari 5, and other goodies that I can’t talk about because the rest is under NDA!

However, there is lots to show and see outside the NDA, including some of the amazing women developers.  So come along and get a taste of the keynote line, the structure of our days, the parties, and a peek at some of the wonderful attendees who make WWDC such a fun and educational event:

Lastly, if you are a certified Apple developer and want to see the sessions you missed, Apple has released them for FREE to all registered developers!

Last night I spent at least two whole whole discussing with my sis about the manga I am currently doing concept pictures for. After These two rabid hours of frantic think, OMG, awesome, does that work, etc. I came home at 2AM and started drawing to get at least *one* of my ideas down onto paper. I then felt sick, lay down and couldnt sleep. then i had another flash of inspiration and started drawing at 6 AM. Then I fell asleep. When i woke up, I looked at it and tried doing MORE drawing in efforts to at least undo and use productively the madness of the previous night! The results, (Critique me people!):

One of the previous Pages also, to get more of a feel for what I'm working on:

Good afternoon my female geek friends (I'm praying that no-one here is going to be offended by the word 'geek' here, or i think that i might be in the wrong place).

I'm maxiie, and I found this lj community through the linuxchix site and I must say I'm extremely exited to be here! So I thought I'd post an introduction to say hello to the community!

Ok, where to begin? My name's maxiie, I'm a self-professed girl geek of many things. I've been using linux for the past 2 years now and I've been feeling like I'm drifting ashore a desert island. I live in a small town in england where, despite the heavy amounts of art students pottering around, they all seem to be mac users with no clue of open source, let alone about linux. The few people I do know and see often who use linux have only started using it since I introduced it to them.

I dont run any other OSes than Linux/GNU ones- I tried windows about a year ago on my new pc and I didnt want to invalidate the warrantee by re-partitioning the HD, but I got so utterly frustrated, I formatted the computer and set up my partitions to run linux / XP dual boot. I then Never used windows ever again, and decided to just use linux solely and the rest, as they say is history!

I'm not utterly n00by but i am prone to ask RTFM questions, so please don't flame me (another reason I joined the community!!).

IRL, I'm a photographer / artist / musician, I speak english and Osaka Dialect Japanese (Albeit badly). I'm Bi, a Feminist and glad to be here!!

Eveything else is in my interests lists; heracio diem!

On Saturday, the 4th of February there will be an IRC python tutorial in #debian-women on irc.oftc.net.

From the announcement email:"The topic is Python for people who can program (at least a little), but don't know Python at all. We will cover the very basics: syntax, basic data types, lists, dictionaries, control structures, functions, classes and objects, and modules. Or possibly less, depending on how time allows. Certainly not all the details of everything. Most of the examples will be about string manipulation, since that is common in most kinds of programs."

Feel free to join in!

Since the #debian-women-new channel that was opened on the occasion of this year's Software Freedom Day was so well received there will now be a special "Newcomers Welcome" timeslot at #debian-women every Saturday from 14:00 to 16:00 GMT.
While newcomers are of course always welcome to join , this timeslot will be dedicated to keeping the discussions on a not too technical basis and paying special attention to new visitors and their questions.

So if you have never before visited #debian-women, this might be an opportunity for you. If you have further questions about the #debian-women channel please refer to our irc FAQ, our irc guidelines or ask in the channel.

On the occasion of this year's Software Freedom Day the Debian-Women Project was running several events. In order to appeal to all levels of experience there were multiple activities: A new irc channel, #debian-women-new, was opened for until then inactive people who would like to get involved with the Debian-Women Project. For more experienced members there was a "help day" on the usual #debian-women channel. Erinn Clark installed a local BTS, dak and buildd for people to try out and practice with. Last but not least a Bug Squashing Party was organised by Hanna Wallach at #debian-bugs. All three events were well received and many women used the opportunity to catch up on the Debian-Women Project and general Debian development.

Thanks to some great work by Clytie and Thierry, the wiki now also offers pages in Vietnamese!
The wiki currently offers eight different languages. Add your translations!

From June 22nd to June 25th the LinuxTag will again take place in Karlsruhe. As usual this will be a large venue for all kinds of Open Source projects with a big fair, talks, workshops, forums and tutorials.

There will also be two talks featuring women in FS: "The Debian Women Project" (link) by Meike which will be given as a part of the Debian Day and "Free Software with a female touch" (link) by Fernanda. There will also be talks by other Debian Women members. Check the wiki for more information. If you plan to come, please drop a line in the wiki.

Following up on last week's story about the Debian Project Leader Elections: Helen Faulkner and Martin Krafft will be chairing the IRC debate, during which this year's six candidates will be answering questions asked by the Debian community. Everybody is encouraged to send in suggestions.

Miriam Ruiz moderated a discussion about Women in Free Software on IRC in the #linuxpreview channel. She has made slides available in Spanish.

Hanna M. Wallach gave a talk about Debian Women at FOSDEM. The talk attracted over 80 people, among which were about 15 women. The slides of the talk are available from Hanna's blog. A short summary can be found in Jill Walker's blog.

Helen Faulkner called for any more people who are interested in the mentoring program to contact her. As a result of this, several newcomers to the project have posted to the mailing list or joined the IRC channel. All these people are very welcome, and there is actually still space for a few more mentees, so any interested people are welcome to contact Helen.