Hi Estrella and Gunnar We recently organized a large scale Latina Hackathon at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) with Google. We had many female programmers, designers, engineering. Please let me know how we can help. I could maybe connect you with these communities. I have a lot of contact with the female engineers. My impression is that Mexico is right now a really great place to run large tech events. There is a lot of interest and a growing female tech community. Here are some pictures of the event: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BymRhJPyKI-db1BkTVFIc3BXZlE&usp=sharing_eid https://plus.google.com/photos /+DeanaB/albums/6124400566804435841?sort=1&authkey=CNSV596FysXONQ
Some videos of other Hackathones in Mexico City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYM_-Mdy9-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYb-E1KuQqI Cheers Saludos! On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Estrella•°✫ <caracola...@riseup.net> wrote: > On 04/11/15 09:51, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Hello world, > > > > I have been talking with several people in Mexico, as I have long > > wanted to bring to our country a MiniDebConf in the spirit of the ones > > held at Barcelona or Bucharest. > > > > I am including in full at the end of my mail the last mail I received > > from Estrella, a member of Rancho Electrónico¹, a hackerspace that > > hosts many different activities of all kinds focused on social change > > through user consciouness and action. Of course, her mail is in > > Spanish, but it basically asks what is this MiniDebConf about, how was > > my experience in it, what would be expected from them as the local > > organizing team, as a basis for them to discuss whether to adopt the > > project. And believe me, once the Rancherxs adopt a project... We have > > a high expectation of huge success :) > > > > Answering to Estrella's questions: My experience so far has been with > > the general DebConf organization; a MiniDebConf is focused by topic, > > geographic region, or similar criteria. In this case, the main focus > > of the MiniDebConf is (quoting): > > > > > > • Encourage women who haven't yet given their first DebConf talk > > • Provide role models for women who are interested in > > contributing > > • Debunk the myth that there are not enough women who can > > give talks in DebConf > > > > The idea behind the conference is not to talk about women in free > > software, or women in debian, but rather to make discussion about > > Debian subjects more inclusive for women. > > > > For this specific topic, I cannot say I have any experience, > > but I can suggest you visit the Barcelona 2014² or Bucharest 2015³ > > MiniDebConf sites. > > > > So, if this sticks, we are in for a *lot* of work. And I will be more > > than happy to work with you. > > > > ¹ http://ranchoelectronico.org/ > > ² http://bcn2014.mini.debconf.org/ > > ³ http://bucharest2015.mini.debconf.org/ > > > > Estrella•°✫ dijo [Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 10:03:10PM -0600]: > >> Hola, > >> sabes, este martes en la reunión asamblearia sondeamos si nos apetece > >> producir el mini defconf y parece que sí hay ánimo, qué tal ¿lo sigues > >> considerando? Nosotrxs sí. > >> > >> La cosa es que queremos saber en qué consiste, cómo fue tu experiencia, > >> qué debemos de tomar en cuenta, qué es lo que esperas que suceda y > >> viajarnos para decirte lo que nos gustaría que sucediera a nosotrxs. > >> > >> Vienes este jueves al Ranchito, pero capaz que en esta oportunidad > >> podemos juntarnos y en lo que cargamos a los babys nos cuentas :) > >> > >> un abrazo > > > >> pub 4096R/0x26B7414A67B08A54 2013-10-27 Estrella S./ Caracol Azul < > caracola...@riseup.net> > >> sub 4096R/0x214EA477AA14A248 2013-10-27 [expires: 2017-09-29] > > > > To us we would like to provide something because we are a diverse > community and debianera , but many women are not programmers and we > thought about how to encourage . Think about our next steps in the > programming and the ability to witness and participate in a dialogue > MiniDebConf is very exciting. > > How has it been for you to organize a MiniDebConf ? > > We were aware of your comments. > > * excuse my english is terrible > > > > Gracias Gunnar, hola chicxs, > sí estamos interesadxs en saber cuáles son sus expectativas y cómo > generar los nodos necesarios para realizar una actividad de este tipo. > > A nosotras nos gustaría poder facilitar algo así porque somos una > comunidad diversa y debianera, hay muchas mujeres pero no somos > programadoras y hemos pensado en cómo animarnos. Pensar en nuestros > próximos pasos en la programación y la posibilidad de presenciar y > participar en los diálogos de una minidebconf es muy emocionante. > > ¿cómo ha sido para ustedes la organización de una minidebconf? > > Quedamos pendiente de sus comentarios. > > *disculpe que no sea mejor en español :D > > > > -- > _,.-:*'``'*:-.,_Estrella > > PGP: DC6B B44C CD95 17D3 0480 5C4F 26B7 414A 67B0 8A54 > > -- Saiph Savage
