Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-22 Thread Daniel Gruno
On 05/22/2016 11:35 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > Here's a really good suggestion from one of our other lists... > > "I wish we could hear from all the women who haven't come to Apache" (pardon the waffling below...) I am left wonderingcould we perhaps extend this a bit? We know there's definit

Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-22 Thread manirpathan manir
manirpatha...@gmail.com On May 20, 2016 6:26 PM, "Sharan Foga" wrote: > Thanks very much to everyone for their feedback and support. > > Rich - I will contact these groups to see what feedback and advice they > can give. > > Thanks > Sharan > > On 20/05/16 14:05, Rich Bowen wrote: > >> I would su

RE: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-22 Thread Ross Gardler
Here's a really good suggestion from one of our other lists... "I wish we could hear from all the women who haven't come to Apache" I'm not crediting because it came from an internal list, but I am repeating it as I agree with this excellent suggestion. If there are people in this group here pl

Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-22 Thread Pierre Smits
HI Frans, For information and questions regarding Apache OFBiz, I suggest that you sign up to project's user mailing list (see here ' https://ofbiz.apache.org/mailing-lists.html how to do so) and post your questions and those of your peers there. I am sure the community can help you out. Best reg

Re: Adding Missing wiki pages for projects!

2016-05-22 Thread Von Cooper
On May 22, 2016 2:14 PM, "Mark Thomas" wrote: > On 21/05/2016 04:02, Syed Gardezi wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I compiled a comprehensive list of missing wiki at > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Apache_Software_Foundation and > > identified duplicate/missing links. File attached

Re: Adding Missing wiki pages for projects!

2016-05-22 Thread Mark Thomas
On 21/05/2016 04:02, Syed Gardezi wrote: > Hello, > > I compiled a comprehensive list of missing wiki at > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Apache_Software_Foundation and > identified duplicate/missing links. File attached I don't follow why some are listed as requiring a rename.

Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-22 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
Thank Frans. You may want to contact Jane Wyngaard about this. She is my Postdoc, from South Africa, and has been contributing to Apache projects (OODT, Kafka, for example). She also is interested in doing an ApacheCon in SA and sent some email to the dev@community list about that before. ++

RE: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-22 Thread Ross Gardler
Apache is about producing OSS. So as described here this is not a good fit for our charitable mission. But there are ways our communities might help. For example, take a look at Fineract (incubating) (added here). This is a project originally created by the Mifos Foundation. Mifos continues t

Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-22 Thread Frans Badenhorst
Hi In South Africa youth unemployment is as high as 50%. Many have tried to even apply for a job, because the education is so poor that they are effectively unemployable. The only option women have who want to make a living for them selves is to start their own business. Thousands do. They run

Re: Base for presentation

2016-05-22 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 5/21/2016 10:31 PM, Alex Harui wrote: On 5/21/16, 4:29 PM, "Patricia Shanahan" wrote: Good points. Unfortunately, the projects in which I'm currently active are not very beginner-friendly. Could people suggest a few projects that would benefit from, and be able to use, relatively inexperi

Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-22 Thread Sharan Foga
Thanks everyone for the feedback. Is it possible for me to get some space (eg a page etc on the Comdev wiki) to put together these initial ideas and the action points? I'm also thinking of using it to help develop the ideas further and to track the actions in progress. Thanks Sharan On 19/0