Re: DebIan-Women

2013-08-15 Thread Angela Kahealani
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 01:03:10AM +0200, Angela Fuß wrote: > Dear Angela, Aloha sister Angel :-) > > So, Ladies, it's time to lead. In traditional culture, it is the > > wise feminine (within both men and women)  which gives culture and > > society its direction, whereas the masculine "doer" wi

Re: Hi.

2013-08-15 Thread Diane Trout
On Thursday, August 15, 2013 02:01:01 Margarita Manterola wrote: > > Yay for going back Debian :). :) youre welcome. I am impressed that debian has kept going as (at least as far as I can tell) a democratic system. > > > I recently managed to upgrade the KDE Telepathy packages with the help

Re: DebIan-Women

2013-08-15 Thread Angela Fuß
Dear Angela, > So, Ladies, it's time to lead. In traditional culture, it is the > wise feminine (within both men and women)  which gives culture and > society its direction, whereas the masculine "doer" within both men > and women, implements the ideals.  Thus, the most important role of > parti

Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 08:33:23PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > - 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

Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-15 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli 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

Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-15 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Katherine Cancelado wrote: > I think is possible, but, I have many question about this: > - The mini-debconf will be international? or local (country)? The idea is to make it international. Of course, a mini debconf means that it won't be as long as a DebCo

DebIan-Women

2013-08-15 Thread Angela Kahealani
Aloha DebIan-Women I'd like to start with a reminder of the name DebIan, the contraction of the names of two people, Deb, and Ian. A woman was instrumental in the very existence of DebIan. Picking a category (women) which selects half the population, immediately yields that there

Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 02:57:28PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: > After discussing the women in Debian issue with many people here in > DebConf, I've been thinking that it would be a nice idea to organise a > mini-debconf where all the speakers are women. This would be a > mini-debconf target

Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-15 Thread Katherine Cancelado
Hi, On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Margarita Manterola < margamanter...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > After discussing the women in Debian issue with many people here in > DebConf, I've been thinking that it would be a nice idea to organise a > mini-debconf where all the speakers are women.

Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-15 Thread Zlatan Todoric
I for sure support this, so go on with it :) cheers, zlatan On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 02:57:28PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > After discussing the women in Debian issue with many people here in > > DebConf, I

Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-15 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 02:57:28PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Hey all, > > After discussing the women in Debian issue with many people here in > DebConf, I've been thinking that it would be a nice idea to organise a > mini-debconf where all the speakers are women. This would be a > mini-

Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-15 Thread Martín Ferrari
On 15/08/13 14:57, Margarita Manterola wrote: > This is currently a dream, but I'd like to be able to turn this into > reality, *this year*. What do people think? We think that this would > be really cool to get more people to notice that women in Debian are > not just "accompanying" (a common c

Re: D-W mailing list

2013-08-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:54:46PM +0200, Martín Ferrari wrote: > Some of the topics raised today at the "Women in Debian 2013"[1] talk > (and some I've heard in related discussions this week) are (IMHO) worth > discussing: impostor syndrome, unconscious bias, privilege, outreach for > other minor

Re: USA Science and Engineering Festival

2013-08-15 Thread Margarita Manterola
HI, > Danielle Rubio dijo [Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:56:39AM -0700]: >> I'm with the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington DC. We are >> reaching out to Debian Women to see if your organization would like to be >> involved in our upcoming festival in April. Could you please send me a >>

Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-15 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hey all, After discussing the women in Debian issue with many people here in DebConf, I've been thinking that it would be a nice idea to organise a mini-debconf where all the speakers are women. This would be a mini-debconf targeted to everyone, like other mini-debconf, with only this specific di

Re: D-W mailing list

2013-08-15 Thread Miriam Ruiz
I think it's a nice initiative, and I certainly thank those links. They are interesting and talk about things that I guess some of us think about. During our talk, Enrico suggested how a publicly accesible and archived mailing list as open as this might raise concerns on the people, though. I wond

D-W mailing list

2013-08-15 Thread Martín Ferrari
Hi, I've been in a few discussions at DebConf about the Debian Women project, and a few times it was suggested to try to re-activate the mailing list. I think a good way to help with that goal is to try to start discussions on topics broader than Debian, as the problems facing Debian Women are cl