Hi, On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org> wrote: > The way they do that is manifold, and we might want to try some or all > of them in the context of DebConf, depending on the available > resources. Here is a non-exhaustive list (I'll add more as soon as I > recall them :-)):
This is a good list, I definitely think that we should try to go for this and maybe even more for DebConf. > - at each conference edition, communicate about the percentage of women > speakers *at* the conference *and* on official project media, e.g.: > "this year we have X% women speakers, that's an increase of +Y% over > last year" This is good, but we definitely need to actively recruit more female speakers, otherwise the Y% might not be so nice. > - reserve a given amount of well-visible (e.g. in the main talk room, or > advertising them as "keynotes") talk slots in the conference program > --- I guess this is not much of a problem for DebConf, as we rarely > fill up the conference program *before* the conference, but we might > want to think about something along similar lines I think that the scheduling has been quite good in this sense, although of course it makes sense to take it into account. > - have specific travel grants / sponsoring for women speakers, possibly > explicitly inviting them from other projects. Two remarks about this: > > - we have had multiple editions of the "DebConf Newbie" initiative in > the past. This idea is very similar, but it will have a different > target public (women DebConf participants instead of newbies) Yes, I suggested doing something like that this year, but it's hard to market it in a way that doesn't trigger negative feelings for the group that is not included in the special group, isn't it? -- Besos, Marga -- 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/cap+fksqrwehyyw5znbnyezuoasr1jp4deqfrfjv4ete1vjf...@mail.gmail.com
