Hi all, We discussed a bunch of interesting ideas yesterday. I know a lot of you could not attend, so feel free to throw in new ideas, comments and whatever comes to mind.
There are a lot of ideas that require people to commit to make them a reality. I've marked them with a big "VOLUNTEER NEEDED" sign. == Small Projects / Bounties / Starlings == One of the things that was agreed very fast is that we need to have small projects for people that want to contribute but don't know how. We already have a NewbieProjects page [1], but it's currently quite empty. One suggestion was that everybody should add whatever they started contributing with. Asheesh pointed to the Fedora Design Bounties [2] and to Openhatch's Starling Bounties [3] to show how other projects do this. Also, there's the how-can-i-help package currently under development [4]. [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen/Projects/NewbieTasks [2]: http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/fedora-design-bounty-fedora-slide-deck-template/ [3]: https://openhatch.org/wiki/Starling [4]: https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help We would like to have some scoped projects that new people can take on. These should be written down in a wikipage and then announced through different media like DPN, Planet, the DW twitter/identi.ca accounts, etc, so that it reaches interested parties. We discussed a bit how we should recognize people, suggestions include: with badges [5], with some gift (like stickers or t-shirts), with a public blog announcement like Fedora [6]. Nothing was decided, more ideas welcome. [5]: http://openbadges.org [6]: http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/second-fedora-design-bounty-ninja-identified/ === Possible Projects === There were a few projects suggested. Some of the things that we discussed afterwards could also be made into scoped projects. * Package some of the dependencies needed for freeipa [7] (Diane said she'll try to put this into a wiki) * Package scidb [8] * Triage bugs for a specific team that needs a lot of bug triaging. [7]: https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-devel/2013-September/msg00049.html [8]: http://scidb.org VOLUNTEER NEEDED: coordinate with people suggesting the ideas, so that we have a regularly (weekly? monthly?) featured one. VOLUNTEER NEEDED: publicize the currently featured one, acnowledge the people doing the work. == Outreach Program for Women == We tried to think of a few bigger projects that could fit in the scope of OPW (i.e. 3 months "internship") * Create a welcoming page as friendly as Fedora's [9] * Create a series of videos on how to use Debian for specific tasks. * Do some "user testing" for specific Debian tasks (as in, sit a completely new user in front of a Debian machine, have them try to do something and write down how it goes) * Have consistent color palettes for Debian, similar to what is suggested in [10] for Ubuntu. * Create a screencast to accompany the PackagingTutorial [11] * Maybe something related to Freedombox * For more ideas, we could try to get non-coding related tasks from teams, like publicity, webmasters, wiki team, listmasters, etc * Or, we could ask female users to state what they are missing in Debian. [9]: http://fedoraproject.org/en/join-fedora [10]: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/08/ubuntu-fun-with-ps1.html [11]: https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingTutorial All in all, in just a few minutes, we were able to gather a bunch of ideas, which had been mentioned as one of the blocking points. I think that if we want the OPW to work for Debian, our current blocking point is the sponsoring. VOLUNTEER NEEDED: coordinate the OPW initiative VOLUNTEER NEEDED: get one or more sponsors for Debian OPW == Video Channel == We discussed a bit about the worthiness of having a debian-women channel (on Youtube or similar, the platform is not the important part). The general feeling is that it would be nice to have them, but this is quite a lot of effort and before taking on such a task, it was suggested that we could "curate" the many many videos that are already there (from DebConfs, mini DebConfs, LCA, FOSDEM, and any other conferences with videos) Suggested name for the series: Debian Orientation Selected videos could be featured through the different media already mentioned (DPN, Planet, twitter/identi.ca, etc) as the "Current Debian Orientation Featured Video" or something like that. We should be able to measure the impact in viewership of this featuring, and if the impact is high enough, we might decide it's worth having special for-the-web videos. VOLUNTEER NEEDED: curate available Debian videos to create a Debian Orientation playlist. VOLUNTEER NEEDED: publicize the current feature video VOLUNTEER NEEDED: quantify viewership differences == Local events / workshops == We acknowledge that meeting people in person can make a tremendous different for lots of would-be contributors. We'd like to organize local events, but we currently don't have the people-power for something like that. It's been suggested that we should collaborate with other groups like Fedora Women or PyLadies. The main suggestion on this direction is to first collect emails of people that would be interested in debian-women events and information, to create a newsletter that includes whatever stuff is happening with debian women. This could probably be a mailing list like debian-women-announce or similar. In this way, we may be able to reach more people when organizing something. The other suggestion was to have some for-print material available that includes general information about debian-women, where to find upcoming events, our on-going projects and so on; so that people can have them in hackerspaces, or other groups (like PyLadies) can hand them away when they do a workshop. There's also an on-going effort from Asheesh and Christian Körner, to create an index of Debian Meetings that welcome people, and so we might be able to have some DW specific meetings taking on that infrastructure. VOLUNTEER: coordinate an email gathering effort for women interested in debian. VOLUNTEER: create a nice PDF that people can print with info about DW. == IRC training sessions == The general sentiment is that even though we've done this in the past, we should keep doing it, since there's always new people approaching debian, and reading the logs of the session is not the same as attending. We may want to have a basic packaging training every 6 months, or so. Same for bug triaging, basic VCS use (git, svn, etc). And then maybe add some hot/new topics on rotation, like currently could be jenkins or autopkgtest. VOLUNTEER NEEDED: coordinate IRC training sessions (list topics, get trainers, etc) == Other ideas == * Have a DW welcome session at the beginning of next DebConf, encouraging people to participate and feel welcomed * Have an all-women-talks day during next DebConf * Have a global meet-up of DW. This means: some particular day, we all meet with DW interested people, wherever we are. For this to work we would need to have some material that people can hand out to those attending the meeting. We could crash one of http://girlgeekdinners.com/ :) * We need new DW T-shirts, maybe even with a new design (this could also be a scoped project) VOLUNTEER NEEDED: either create a new design for DW, or organize a contest for it VOLUNTEER NEEDED: coordinate printing and shipping of DW T-shirts VOLUNTEER NEEDED: organize a global DW meet-up *** Well, that's that. A lot of ideas of things we can do, waiting for someone to take them on. Feel free to reply to this mail about whatever you may be interested in, or just start a new thread about a particular subject The bot minutes are available at: http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-women/2013/debian-women.2013-09-07-15.59.html The full log is available at: http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-women/2013/debian-women.2013-09-07-15.59.log.html -- Besos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? 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