[UbuntuWomen] IRC Meeting Notes: July 1 15:00 UTC 2007

[Elizabeth Bevilacqua]

As always, these notes and a full log are available on our wiki:

http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/20070701

= Ubuntu-Women IRC Meeting July 1 15:00 UTC 2007 =

The meeting this time around centered around dinda's upcoming talk at
Ubuntu Live.

 * elkbuntu (Melissa Draper) gave a talk about Women in F/OSS at the
[http://clug.org.au/ Canberra LUG], there were about 25 attendees,
including 5 women where there are usually none! Video of her talk will
be available soon.

 * dinda (Belinda Lopez) will be giving a talk at Ubuntu Live entitled
[http://www.ubuntulive.com/cs/ubuntu/view/e_sess/13460 Why Do We Need
an Ubuntu Women's Project?] and asked for input from the group.

  * She will start out with a quick history

  * pleia2 (Elizabeth Bevilacqua) filled in a few things in history
and invited dinda to ask more questions of her and Susana, since both
have been active in the U-W community since it began

  * dinda asked about "leadership" structure of the organization

   * pleia2 pointed out that Vid is the founder and still runs the
Launchpad team with a couple co-admins, but there are several women in
key positions in the project who keep things running from day to day

   * we pretty much agreed that these days leadership is spread out in
the project and decisions are made by way of general consensus

  * dinda explained her take on the subject:

   * "as long people make unwarranted assumptions about someone's
ability to contribute to the community based solely on gender, then we
need this project"

   * "I've yet to see the case where someone sees a guy and
automatically assumes he has no technical skills or even a right to be
in there simply b/c he's a guy"

   * "There will be some reference to the FOSS numbers and other stats
but I'd mainly like to stick with the Ubuntu community"

  * dinda also said she'd like to give a nod to !LinuxChix and other
upstream projects

   * Sulamita showed up at the meeting and offered to send dinda a
translated version of linuxchix-br's FAQ that discuss things like "all
LUG are generic, isn't linuxchix unnecessary?"

  * dinda will be posting her talk outline/notes on the wiki for
review by the group, she looks forward to comments.

The meeting wrapped up with some discussion on who is attending what
conferences in the near future. Looks like there will be some U-W
meet-ups! :)

-- 
Elizabeth Bevilacqua
http://www.princessleia.com