Group: Women's Caucus/Documentation/12.22.2009
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Schools in general | Schools in general | ||
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Next meeting is scheduled for January 12th, 2:30 EST | Next meeting is scheduled for January 12th, 2:30 EST | ||
Revision as of 16:52, 22 December 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
