Group:Women's Caucus/Documentation/10.26.2010

Suggested agenda:

1) Follow-up on projects we discussed last time

-- Girl Scouts pilot

-- Blog posts on Caucus topics

-- Pictures/profiles of involved people

-- FAQ

2) New ideas

-- Add advancement to our goals of recruitment and retention?

-- New outreach ideas

3) Promote or facilitate mentoring

4) Upcoming opportunities?

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Minutes for 10/26/2010

• Girl Scouts pilot

http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/girl-scouts-digital-media-class-day-1-day-2/

• Blog posts on Caucus topics

http://eximiousproductions.com/blog/2010/10/26/access-to-power-for-women-in-free-software to be fleshed out with details and sent to Terri for crossposting on Geekfeminism (don't forget to add a bio!)

• Christine and Asheesh have agreed to blog, DPic to manage links here, http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Women%27s_Caucus/Campaigns/Blog_Appeals

• Pictures/profiles of involved people

Osamak and Deb to work on a draft page for this

• Add advancement to our goals of recruitment and retention?

Let's take this up next time.

• New outreach ideas

1) find your local nerdnite http://nerdnite.com/ 2) participate in CS Education week http://www.csedweek.org/ Find a few schools interested in hosting speakers and help them find someone (LH and Deb) If you know a teacher, approach them about CSED week! (everyone)

• Promote or facilitate mentoring, tabled

• Upcoming opportunities

Scale CFP, http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/blog/scale-9x-call-papers

LOCAL Monday, 8pm November 22nd at CBC in Kendall Square

Next meeting is November 23rd at 2:30 EST in #glofs on freenode.net