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If you're looking for the schedule of the Women's Caucus, you'll find that here.

This page is a record of the planning that went into the September 19th, 2009 mini-summit on women's participation in the free software movement. Minutes from that event are here. If you have questions, feel free to ask in IRC; #glofs on freenode.net.

Go here, to create an account if you don't already have one. Don't worry about the drop-down box that says "Use fsf.org login" you'll be creating a login for fsf.org at the same time as create a login for this page. (If you get a "Login error" it means your nick is already in use, so you'll have to pick something else. )

Ideas

I. Building on the work of others

A. Initiatives within the free software community that have already been successful

LinuxChix, Ubuntu Women, Debian Women, GNOME WSOP, phpwomen, Drupalchix, OTW, Dreamwidth, Systers

B. What other freedom movements have experienced similar issues? What worked for them? What didn't?

C. What solutions can we adapt from other freedom movements to increase women's participation in the free software movement?

II. Our own derivative plan for success

A. What we'd like to see in our communities -- a bit of visioning

places/ways for women to have increased visibility to each other and talk w each other
promote the visibility and importance of the women already in the field using wiki pages which would be especially useful for conferences and awards
decentralize communities, ie have local meetups easier and cheaper to get to
education and mentoring and peer mentoring

B. What we believe we can implement almost immediately to increase women's participation
C. What we believe is reasonable in the next year (esp. making this a larger conversation)
D. Some of the things we'd like to see in three years (this section should be an evolving document)

Participants in the September 19th Caucus

Deborah Nicholson-- FSF Membership Coordinator, "freedeb" in #glofs on freenode.net.
Stormy Peters -- GNOME Foundation
Hillary Rettig -- author of The Lifelong Activist
Adelaida McIntire -- FSF Intern
Leslie Hawthorn -- Google, @lh on identi.ca, lh on freenode.net
Mairin Duffy -- Red Hat, Fedora Project
Hanna Wallach -- Debian Women, GNOME WSOP
Christine Spang -- at MIT, Debian
Marina Zhurakhinskaya -- GNOME

Older notes

framing our goals as a group
how to broaden this discussion and bring in more voices as we move forward
concrete actions to achieve balanced participation in the free software community

Myself, Hillary and Adelaida met for lunch on August 19th to start sharing some ideas. Two things that came up were:

Linkages with other freedom movements and activist communities
Our web presence does not provide good entry points for those new to our issues

External Links

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-==I. Building on the work of others==
+== Ideas ==
-===A. Initiatives within the free software community that have already been successful===
+===I. Building on the work of others===
+; A. Initiatives within the free software community that have already been successful
 * LinuxChix, Ubuntu Women, Debian Women, GNOME WSOP, phpwomen, Drupalchix, OTW, Dreamwidth, Systers
-===B. What other freedom movements have experienced similar issues? What worked for them? What didn't?===
+; B. What other freedom movements have experienced similar issues? What worked for them? What didn't?
 * [http://wikichix.org/wiki/WikiChix WikiChix]
 * [http://www.darcynorman.net/2009/08/20/on-the-open-education-experience/ Inclusion in Open Education]
 * [http://bergermarks.org/resources/reports.html Three papers on strategies to increase women's participation in the labor movement]
+; C. What solutions can we adapt from other freedom movements to increase women's participation in the free software movement?
-===C. What solutions can we adapt from other freedom movements to increase women's participation in the free software movement?===
+===II. Our own derivative plan for success===
+; A. What we'd like to see in our communities -- a bit of visioning
-==II. Our own derivative plan for success==
-===A. What we'd like to see in our communities -- a bit of visioning===
 * places/ways for women to have increased visibility to each other and talk w each other
 * promote the visibility and importance of the women already in the field using wiki pages which would be especially useful for conferences and awards
 * decentralize communities, ie have local meetups easier and cheaper to get to
 * education and mentoring and peer mentoring
+; B. What we believe we can implement almost immediately to increase women's participation
-===B. What we believe we can implement almost immediately to increase women's participation===
+; C. What we believe is reasonable in the next year (esp. making this a larger conversation)
+; D. Some of the things we'd like to see in three years (this section should be an evolving document)
-===C. What we believe is reasonable in the next year (esp. making this a larger conversation)===
-===D. Some of the things we'd like to see in three years (this section should be an evolving document)===
 ==Participants in the September 19th Caucus==
-* [http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/User:Deborah/Profile Deborah Nicholson]-- FSF Membership Coordinator, "freedeb" in  #glofs on freenode.net
+* [[User:Deborah/Profile|Deborah Nicholson]]-- FSF Membership Coordinator, "freedeb" in  [irc://irc.freenode.net/glofs #glofs on freenode.net].
 * Stormy Peters -- GNOME Foundation
 * Hillary Rettig -- author of The Lifelong Activist
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 ==Older notes==
-#framing our goals as a group #
+#framing our goals as a group
 # how to broaden this discussion and bring in more voices as we move forward
 # concrete actions to achieve balanced participation in the free software community
 Myself, Hillary and Adelaida met for lunch on August 19th to start sharing some ideas. Two things that came up were:
 # Linkages with other freedom movements and activist communities
 # Our web presence does not provide good entry points for those new to our issues
 ==External Links==
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 * [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/ Geek Feminism Wiki]
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