Group:Women's Caucus/Documentation/1.12.2010

The track on Sunday March 21st

round-table discussion/workshop on recruiting/retaining women

"Concrete things your org/company/project can do to increase your recruitment and retention of women"

1 thing that could be done is to ask each participant to think of one action item that they/their company can do to increase/promote either recruitment or retention

i.e. make it clear that people should be actually bringing along a concrete idea of something that they could offer/do

Pre-conference meet-up for women Marina, Mairin and Deb to find a quiet, not 21+ place for a women's dinner on Friday, near the T, with vegan food. This discussion to be finished off online.

have a moderated Q&A where people can ask about things they've tried and ask for advice on improving

(I say moderated so we don't get 10 versions of the same question)  

mdz from canonical

Kathy from Sun

Hannah from Debian Women

someone from Dreamwidth

Someone from here: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_women_keynote_presenters_at_technical_conferences

More recruitment/promotion ideas:

Both Hannah (upenn, umass amherst, harvard, stanford, mills, hampshire college...) and Marina (MIT) agreed to send invites to their contacts at universities. Karen agreed to talk to Sugar

Stormy: everyone should blog this

Scholarship ideas: try all the Grace Hopper sponsors? have FSF apply for grant(s)