[UbuntuWomen] Outreach Issues? (Jasna Bencic)

[Pamela Fuentes]

Hi all

Svetlana- your worry about outreach actually touched me, I've been in 
this list for a couple of years yet I never seem to make the time to 
participate or actually start doing some community work. Makes me feel 
bad, because I love Ubuntu and open source and since I'm using both I 
should be giving something back.
I'm full of admiration at how you guys work and make things happen, and 
I think it's time for me to get my act together and participate.

Jasna- I think the mentoring idea for an Ubuntu project is excellent as 
you suggest it.

I'm not a programmer but I can do a lot of other things, I am after all 
a woman in the IT field at an (*almost*) senior level, so here I am, 
count me in!

Pamela Fuentes


On 16/11/2013 19:38, Svetlana Belkin wrote:
> On 11/16/2013 12:17 PM, Scarlett Clark wrote:
>> Excellent insight here. Directly relates to my story, despite KDE not
>> participating in this round I continue to contribute. I love the
>> accomplishment of it, and I can use the knowledge for future employment.
>> I think that is the focus that needs to be made. It is not for a job,
>> but for the knowledge and training to get a job in the field. I am not
>> an expert so I don't think I could mentor anyone, but if you need
>> assistance in any other way, please let me know. I would love to be a
>> part of this.
> Same thing here, I'm finding it very hard to contribute to the Ubuntu
> Doc team (the wiki part) because of the lack reason to keep the wiki
> update to date (because of having Ubuntu Forums, Ask Ubuntu, and the
> support channel on freenode.net).  Having that set aside, I heard from
> someone that if you have the skills and you are woman in the IT field,
> you guaranteed a job in the field.  Is that correct?
>
> Svetlana Belkin

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