Hello Marga, I'm not sure if this will help but I was thinking you could gain some ideas from these events:
http://www.ableconf.com/wiki/index.php?title=Women_in_technology Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing! http://gracehopper.org/2009/ Have a great Day! Christina ________________________________ "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein "Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain." ________________________________ From: Margarita Manterola <margamanter...@gmail.com> To: debian-women <debian-women@lists.debian.org> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 10:56:49 AM Subject: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event Hi! This is not exactly related to Debian, but it came up while talking to another girl about Debian Women. I've been thinking about this for a few days, and I'd like to receive comments or opinions from people here. Feel free to give me your opinion on any of the subjects below. I'm thinking of organizing a local (i.e. in Argentina) Free Software event, where all the speakers are women, and somehow try to advertise this event so that it's clear that it's specially oriented towards women, but obviously men will also be welcome at the event. Before you ask (this has been the most FAQ), yes, there are enough women in the region to hold such event. One of the conflicts that first came up when thinking about this event, is the name. Any descriptive names like "Women and Free Software" sound boring and not something that would bring too many people. Other "fun" names like "/bin/chicas" (chicas ~ chix) might not be too good to describe it either. So, what I've thought up to now (I'm still open for better suggestions) is to hold this event in the frame of the Ada Lovelace Day, which would take care of the name, and -I think- would also scare some trolls away. But unfortunately does not convey the "Free" software idea. Another conflict that came to my mind was about the content. At the first moment, I had though it'd be nice to have a very tech oriented event, with very high levels in the contents of the talks, to show that women are as capable as men on delivering good technical content. But then, after thinking more about it, I came to realize that if we want to reach out to women that aren't yet involved in Free Software, we might need to include some introductory talks as well, and thus I'm not certain any more of what kind of event it would be. And finally, I've been thinking about getting sponsors for the event, since it'd be nice to be able to pay the travel costs for women that live in different cities, but then I came to realize that this event might not be as appealing to common sponsors as the normal Free Software events, and thus I wonder how I should approach them, or if I should try to approach different sponsors than the common Free Software ones. Well that's it, I'd be delighted to hear your opinions about all this. -- Besos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
