[UbuntuWomen] [Blueprint communty-p-ubuntu-women-project-goals] Ubuntu Women UDS-P Goals

[Elizabeth Krumbach]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Jessica Ledbetter
<jessica at jessicaledbetter.com> wrote:
> How about as part of outreach, we ping the user groups to see what their
> ideas on attracting more women to their meetings are -- I feel that's more
> positive than asking if they want to attract more -- and compiling that and
> sharing it. If they have some women at the meetings that might be interested
> in joining U-W, we can send that info too. Maybe we can send a couple
> stickers or such? (James Tatum and I love making stickers now!) Plus, let
> them know about our growing mentorship program.

Earlier in the cycle I put together some *very basic* ideas here:

http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/BestPractices

But fleshing that out more with more experiences from other groups
would be really, really great. I've gone ahead and added this idea to
our Roadmap wiki.

http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Roadmap-P

I got to take home some of the decals that James brought to the last
Ubuntu Hour in Mountain View :) They rock, and I actually just mailed
some off to a woman who contacted me for the other Ubuntu Women
stickers! I'm also bringing some stickers and stuff to UDS.

> We could also make it a point to talk at some of the various classroom
> sessions like user days. I'm sure it's been done before but maybe we can
> make it a scheduled type thing so that we can reach the new community
> members that might not know about the group and what we offer?

Sessions about the Ubuntu Women project itself? It used to be that
Ubuntu Open Week was a nice platform for showcasing projects within
Ubuntu and we'd have a session there, but they've moved away from that
and more to a "teach the user" rather than "teach potential
contributors" model. User Days is an interesting example though, we do
a fair amount of support in #ubuntu-women and it can be a very
welcoming environment to start out in so perhaps we can find a place
in User Days afterall...

> Is the U-W column in Full Circle Magazine part of the blueprint or just part
> of what we do? Maybe we can gather up some stories and people to interview
> via some of the above.

It's just part of what we do. Sounds good, can you add ideas to the
column ideas of our FCM wiki?

http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/FullCircleMagazine#Column_Ideas

> Also, we moved the Ada Day project before because it was rescheduled from
> Spring to Fall. But the next will be October 2012?

Good question. Does anyone know? Or have thoughts on other days we can
celebrate?

> For those of us remoting in: if you want to be make sure the organizers know
> that you want to attend and when you're available, you have to
> http://uds.ubuntu.com/register/ and say you're remote and when you're
> available.
>
> Unfortunately, I didn't see how we could get granular with our availability
> but we can at least pick the start day/time and end day/time.

Yeah, unfortunately it's not so fine tuned beyond that :(

If you're attending multiple things (remotely or otherwise) and want
to make sure (to the extent it's possible) it doesn't conflict with
something else, subscribe to the blueprint directly and when you
subscribe mark yourself as "participation essential"

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu-women.org/+spec/community-p-ubuntu-women-project-goals

The schedule for UDS can be found here:

http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-p/

Right now we're in a slot on Monday, but this schedule will probably
still change a lot before the summit starts so I couldn't count on
that timeslot.

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Elizabeth Krumbach // Lyz // pleia2
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