On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:22:19AM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Hi! > > There was a BOF session at DebConf11 related to Debian Women, kindly > held by Meike, which I attended virtually thanks to the awesome work > of the Video Team, and the help of the participants when the video > link had gone down. > > The minutes are available by using gobby-0.5 to connect to > gobby.debian.net (debconf11/dc11-dw-bof). I'll make a summary of what > was discussed so that we can discuss some further tasks as to how to > go on: > > 1) About mentoring > > The mentoring process has been on-going for a long while, but > unfortunately has not had enough publicity, so much so that many of us > thought that it was stalled. We need to give it more publicity, > because without it, we can't reach potential mentees. We also need to > compose some sort of mentoring "curriculum" or templates, to help the > many people that don't know where to start. Also, it seems that many > mentees tend to just go away. Apparently more pinging is necessary to > know what's going on. > > Tasks: > > * Create a Mentoring "Curriculum" to help both mentors and mentees. > * Advertise the Mentoring project more. > * Have someone pinging mentors and mentees to know what's going on. > > 2) "How to help" > > A lot of people want to help Debian, but don't really know where to > start. In order to encourage them and keep them collaborating, we > need to have a straightforward answer to the "Where do I start?" > question. A suggestion that was put forward was having > "Mini-projects" for people to join, that have simple tasks available. > Of course this means that someone has to lead these projects. > > Tasks: > > * Think of possible Mini-Projects where people can start contributing > to Debian without feeling too daunted by the size of it. > * Think of other ready made easy answers to the "How can I help?" question
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