[UbuntuWomen] IRC Meeting Notes: September 16 11:00 UTC 2007

[Elizabeth Bevilacqua]

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

http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/20070916

Discussion about these items on-list is encouraged, as we understand
that not everyone can make it to IRC meetings.

= Ubuntu-Women IRC Meeting September 16 11:00 UTC 2007 =

This meeting discussed the status of our website migration, our
partnership with Classroom and Team Reporting.

 {*} Website migration

  * Our website team decided to move from the LoCo team server to to
Canonical Data Center (CDC).

  * This move has been completed by the Canonical SysAdmin team, we
are now waiting on ssh access, pleia2 has submitted an RT ticket to
get this final step completed

 {*} Classroom Partnership

  * Discussion about the Ubuntu Training program led us to believe it
is too much of a professional program to be very useful to us, but we
would like to get folks who are interested in education involved, it's
a very good project

  * pleia2 (along with Nightrose and a couple others) contacted Ryan
from the Classroom program a few weeks ago about a partnership with
them. Folks at the meeting agreed that establishing a partnership with
them to replace our somewhat stagnant Courses program would be a good
route to go.

  * svaksha proposed hosting some classroom sessions in #ubuntu-women
(perhaps alternating) and pros and cons were discussed:

   * Point: Some women might feel uncomfortable leaving the relative
"safety" of #ubuntu-women to join #ubuntu-classroom

   * Counterpoint: #ubuntu-classroom is a very safe project, we don't
feel bad about inviting women there to join a class

   * Point: There is already an audience of women in #ubuntu-women,
easy to reach

   * Counterpoint: We will be doing publicity for classroom via
mailing lists, IRC and via blogs; interested parties will be informed

   * Other reasons for keeping Classroom in #ubuntu-classroom:

     * It is not a specifically Ubuntu-Women project and is not the
only one that will be involved with Classroom, it should be accessible
to the whole community via their official channel, alternating
locations is confusing

     * We cannot ask presenters to host sessions in both channels
(it's hard enough to get them to do one!)

     * Our mission is to get more women involved with Ubuntu, part of
that means we should encourage them to join other channels,
#ubuntu-classroom is a safe place to branch out to

  * The Classroom project is submitting a proposal to have a mailing
list and doing some reorganization to get back on track

  * pleia2 will be working with Classroom through this reorganization
and will inform the Ubuntu-Women list with a plan of how we can help
and move forward with integrating this into our project.

 {*} Team Reporting

  * Jono Bacon has started a Team Reporting initiative:
[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting] and asked
that Ubuntu Women take part in monthly reporting of our activities

  * pleia2 has put together a page on the Ubuntu-Women Wiki page for
this: [http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/ReportingPage]

  * Susana pointed out that our meeting notes are a very good summary
of project status and should be linked to such a report

  * pleia2 asked for a volunteer to handle keeping this updated
monthly and encouraged everyone to add bullet points for parts of the
project they're working on or feel we've missed/overlooked


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