I've been volunteered (due to an apparently fortuitous position timezone-wise) to moderate the next meeting on the debian-women IRC channel.
The next meeting is due to take place at 0500 UTC on the 16th of January, 2005. For the people who can't do timezone calculations in your head (like me), there's a cool tool at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html which will tell you what time the meeting is in your part of the world. We know the time will suck for some people, it gets rotated about 8 hours each meeting so if this one's bad for you, the next one should be OK. A summary of the meeting will be written up and posted for those people who are unable to actually be at the meeting, and discussion can comtinue on this list or on IRC afterwards. For those of you not familiar with the format or intent, these meetings aim to promote discussion on a particular facet relating to the aims of the Debian Women project -- to encourage more women to take part in the process of creating the Debian distribution, and generally make Debian a more welcoming place, to help make Debian even better than it is today. These meetings take place on IRC, in the #debian-women channel of the freenode IRC network (http://freenode.net for server lists and such). Discussion is fairly open and freeform, just centered around the topic of the meeting. Most people are very understanding of those people without lightning fast fingers, so don't think that you'll be left out if you can't quite hit 100wpm. Last month's meeting was on the subject of mentoring, whether it was useful, what form(s) it should take, and how we can encourage it to happen. We currently don't have a topic for the upcoming meeting, so everyone should bring their ideas to the table. Anything related to the aims of the project is fair game for discussion. Please raise your ideas for discussion topics, and one of the ones that gets general support (and that I have some idea about, since I'll be leading the discussion) will be our Topic Of The Month. Thanks, - Matt
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