Please join me in a warm welcome to Duchess France – the newest addition to the Duchess Community.

After meeting a few ladies from Paris at Devoxx 2009, the events have been set in motion to create Duchess France. Duchess France is our first chapter outside of the Netherlands and is the first step in globally connecting women in Java technology.

Rough Translation:
What we wish for jDuchess is to build a community where women who work with Java can connect with each other and share their experiences and points of view. We want to build a social network to make women more visible in the Java community, and to enable them to participate at events like the Paris JUG, and other events and conferences. And perhaps also become a speaker and present at these events.

You can get in contact with Duchess France via Twitter, Google Group and LinkedIn. For more info, please contact ellene(dot)dijoux(at)jduchess(dot)org.