On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:41:21AM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > So, I've been thinking about this, and it's not like we don't have > enough women: we have between 20 and 30 active women, maybe more, and > that's a big enough number to have a small meeting. However, we are > all over the world, flying to an in-person meeting takes time and (a > lot of) money. And also, doing a women-only meeting sounds weird to > me. We don't want to isolate that much from the whole Debian > community. > > I've been thinking that something else that could be done along this > line would be to encourage (and sponsor) more local/pseudo-local women > to go to mini-debconfs. I've heard that there are a few mini-debconfs > coming up in Europe (.fr, .it) and it might be a good idea to choose > one of them and encourage the women in Europe to go there. It won't > be all of us, but it could be a nice group to start building up, > without spending that much time and money. If there is another > mini-DebConf in some other places, Debian Women that are near can try > to gather there as well. >
Yeah, I like more the idea of helping and encouraging women to go to Debian meetings over organizing just a d-w meeting. You might say this bigger meeting is to give more visibility to women inside Debian, but then I like more the global meeting idea: > Yet another possibility would be to do a bigger event, with all the > rest of women in Free Software groups (Ubuntu, Fedora, Mozilla, GNOME, > KDE, linuxchix?, etc). This would mean a lot of work in organization > and the like, but it might be worth it, I'm not sure. The FSF has also started a group some months ago, however it seems too much US-centric. Ana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100826140859.ga27...@ekaia.org
