Group: Women's Caucus/Documentation/1.26.2010

Minutes for January 26th, 2010

March stuff

Panel folks Mel chua with red hat now. she was with olpc Jen from Sun may have her own funding - asking her specifically to come up with lightweight things that communities can do internally and offering a quick summary of practical matters would be great

Lightning Talks -- Topic is open and participation not limited to women or topics about women's participation twelve five minute talks, submit in advance so there is no fussing with laptops Selena will talk about soldering

A workshop about how you can be involved in non-coding ways by Selena Deckelmann

Scholarships for travel? NCWIT WITI Redhat (Mel) Canonical

Friday afternoon Speaking at technical conferences with Selena

in case folks have upcoming CFP's please send them along to Flossspeakher@gnu.org signup for that list here, http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/flossspeakher/

Get girls laptops

hoping to set up a meeting with Sugar soon

the training department at Canonical has relationship with Dell

Anita Verma from the ACM's K-12 project at SIGCSE could suggest partners

One of our goals is for the pilot in the US to be so successful that we are overwhelmed with folks who want to fund this project elsewhere.

Our next IRC meeting is February 23rd at 2:30 EST

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From #glofs on 1.27.2010

1. at the beginning of the day we can encourage people to ask questions/make suggestions on adapting or extending strategies to build better particpation in other under-represented groups, and then again at the end.

2. have women make short video blurbs about how they got involved in free software