Group: Women's Caucus/Documentation/12.22.2009

This meeting was a brainstorm about the upcoming larger meeting on March 21st which will be co-located with Libre Planet 2010

Have Leslie open the day?

Lightning Talks by women in FOSS

round-table discussion/workshop on recruiting/retaining women someone with experience in recruiting volunteers to non-profits would be good - like Hands On if they have a Boston chapter in terms of a facilitator and a person who can recruit others (Ask Hillary for input here)

have someone present recent research on women in technology

Rishab Aiyer Ghosh http://www.flosspols.org/ http://www.merit.unu.edu/about/profile.php?id=24

Sapna Cheryan http://scicom.ucsc.edu/SciNotes/0901/pages/geeks/geeks.html http://faculty.washington.edu/scheryan/

Presentation of existing opportunities for women in free software

Selena: i'm happy to help come up with a survey (or recruit a syster to help with making a survey) to follow up with women who attend.

Recruitment ideas:

Please add more!

Schools in general

We also talked about the need to offer discounts for students or to get scholarship $$

Next meeting is scheduled for January 12th, 2:30 EST