Group: Women's Caucus/Documentation/10.27.2009

The agenda and minutes for the first IRC meeting on October 27th, 2009

1) Logo - we decided not to have a contest. Mairin is exploring two logo ideas; one depicting a stylized woman like the girl scouts logo and one that's a cartoon lady driving a GNUbot. Additional ideas may also be considered at next month's IRC mtg.

2) Four feminist freedoms for the free software community - We tabled this item and will look at it more this month over email.

3) Speaker's bureau, compiling and promoting it - A list of FLOSS speakers has already been started on the geekfeminism wiki. We decided that our efforts would be best spent developing strategy and sharing resources. Deborah is setting up a flossspeakher@gnu.org mailing list for sharing speaking opportunities, encouraging conference organizers to post speaking opportunities as well as sharing and discussing speaker training opportunities.

4) Get computers into girls' hands - this project to be further developed over email this month

5) Day long summit on women's participation in the spring - Libre Planet is tentatively scheduled for March 19-21st in Boston, the 19th will likely be the larger women's summit day.

6) Couch surfing network for women in free software - Leslie is looking into privacy issues here.

Our next meeting is November 24th at 2:30 EST