[UbuntuWomen] ubuntu-women website

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Hello All,

On 3/19/06, Elizabeth Krumbach <lyz at princessleia.com> wrote:
>
> People who Volunteer/contributer directly to ubuntu-women? I think it would be
> nice to add a link to their blogs or whatever.
>

.. On the homepage ... yes I think so too.
Btw, can we use Launchpad to track all this work? (see next email
about Launchpad teams)



> I think it would be great if we could we also have profiles of women who are
> actively involved in Ubuntu besides just as a "normal user" I think having
> profiles of successful women is very helpful in raising the profile of women.
> The Debian-Women project has such profiles:
> http://women.alioth.debian.org/profiles/
>
> In fact, the debian-women site is very good and their project has been
> successful. I think u-w can learn a lot from it.

Its true DW is an excellent project and we have a long way to go yet
but its a start :-) I have learnt a lot from LinuxChix and DW
(although I lurked here for a few weeks before volunteering to write
the SA locale since I didnt use Debian).


>
> >   - have an announce/News page for fresh projects and to share
> > information about what is happening in Ubuntu lists/planet/IRC (Fridge
> > exists, but it does not incorporate the nitty-gritty from various
> > lists and probably isn't meant to...)
>
> Unless I'm misunderstanding you, I wonder if this would be outside the scope of
> actual women in ubuntu stuff?
>
> If nothing like this exists in ubuntu already perhaps ubuntu-women could
> spearhead a project to get some sort of official "fresh projects, news in
> Ubuntu lists/planet/IRC" section of the normal ubuntu site.

Maybe its not clear enough, hmm... Since individual lists already
exist for -devel, -art, -docu team, etc... and most people directly
involved there would be subscribed.  However, new stuff comes up often
and you would get that information only if you are on that mailing
list. We cant always subscribe to every list to get this information.
Here is a Use-case-example : Suppose you are subscribed to the -Art ML
and find something interesting or a new project  that needs people
with artistic skills.
You can post this information with relevant links to the "fresh
projects-news page" linked on the main site or alternatively we could
send it to the UW mailing list on a bi-weekly basis for those who like
mails as opposed to checking a static page. People can thus be aware
of what is going on and go there directly if interested.

Ofcourse this is for much later. First we need to decide the basics
for the website :-)

>
> >  - keep a TO-DO page with information about how and where people can
> > submit their ideas.
>
> This would be great.
>
> >  - keep a chapters page : for country-specific announcements,
> > meetings, etc.. around the world.
>
> Very good idea.
>

Would someone like to list this on our UbuntuWomen/Ideas page so we
can summarize quickly and tick off what people like/dislike and
accordingly start working soon.


> I am unable to commit to regular maintenance tasks, but right now I'm between
> projects I would be happy to help out with some HTML to launch the site. Plus I
> did development work with Zope (which plone is built on) at a previous job, so
> I'm familiar with with it.
>
> I can also contribute to proof-reading of the site content if there is a need,
> since english is my native language and I have expereince with this.

Sounds great ... btw, its fine to volunteer in part too.

ciao,
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