Duchess
Globally Connecting Women in Java Technology

Duchess leaders, Regina ten Bruggencate and Clara Ko, representing Duchess at JavaOne.
Interview by Yolande Poirier, Oracle Community Outreach Manager.

Watch on France 24: http://www.france24.com/fr/20111001-2011-10-01-0946-wb-fr-le-net

Big thanks to Yolande Poirier, Oracle Community Outreach Manager, for giving us the exposure that we needed at JavaOne. Being interviewed was nerve-wracking but very educational. Through numerous fruitful discussions with community leaders and Java gurus, we have refined our message and are working on a flyer to help explain our mission, vision, and overall message. Love to hear from Duchesses everywhere on their ideas of important issues affecting women in IT today.

This is the second in a series of discussions looking at factors that enable Agile teams to be successful. Diversity of gender, culture, opinion, perspective, skills and background is considered to be an important factor in forming and persisting high-performance teams. This news item examines the perspectives from variety of commentators.

On March 3, 2009, in a historic moment of cooperation between government and industry, 5 European and multinational companies signs a Code of Best Practices for Women and ICT in response to the call by Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media, to attract more girls into ICT. The 5 companies are:
* Alcatel-Lucent
* IMEC
* Orange France Telecom Group
* Microsoft
* Motorola

More information at PublicTechnoloy.net.

Thanks, CafeSWA, for this link:
A recent survey from 22 October, 2008, on women in ICT in Belgium filled in by 1413 women en 19 men.

The original post: She Goes ICT

• Main conclusions
• Complete results of the survey
• The photos from ‘She Goes ICT’

As I mentioned in my own blog-post I’am the lucky one who won the free devoxx tickets, Yay! I also wrote in the same post:

I’am a bit behind on the recap though

I made lots of notes and decided to write some posts about the most interesting session I attended, this will include:
XP loops, Seam in Action, Test driven development and PHP on Java.

At University day 1, I attended the session: Scrum in Practice by Chery Sylvain and Yves Hanoulle.
This session was divided in two parts, XP Loops and SCRUM.

You can read my recap about XP Loops here.

At Devoxx 2008 I got to hear about new stuff and meet new people – everything I expected from the biggest independent Java conference in the world. From what I hear, it is a conference with more stuff and less fluff – even said by Sun employees in comparison with JavaOne. It is big enough so that you can move around between talks in the same slot and if you’re not going to talks, there are always other people to hang out with. Topics that are discussed at Devoxx usually become mainstream within a year or two in the Netherlands. Perhaps they become mainstream sooner in other countries. Devoxx is always interesting for consultants such as myself to keep track of the latest trend. Not everything however, become mainstream or relevant, so the trick is to pick out the right topics to dive into later.

Here are some highlights from Devoxx 2008:
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