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− | '''If you're looking for the schedule of the Women's Caucus, you'll find that [[:Category:LibrePlanet2010 WFS|here]].'''
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− | 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 [[Womenscaucus/9.19.2009|here]]. If you have questions, feel free to ask in IRC; [irc://irc.freenode.net/glofs #glofs on freenode.net].
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− | == Ideas ==
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− | ===I. Building on the work of others===
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− | ; A. Initiatives within the free software community that have already been successful
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− | * LinuxChix, Ubuntu Women, Debian Women, GNOME WSOP, phpwomen, Drupalchix, OTW, Dreamwidth, Systers
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− | ; B. What other freedom movements have experienced similar issues? What worked for them? What didn't?
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− | * [http://wikichix.org/wiki/WikiChix WikiChix]
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− | * [http://www.darcynorman.net/2009/08/20/on-the-open-education-experience/ Inclusion in Open Education]
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− | * [http://bergermarks.org/resources/reports.html Three papers on strategies to increase women's participation in the labor movement]
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− | ; C. What solutions can we adapt from other freedom movements to increase women's participation in the free software movement?
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− | ===II. Our own derivative plan for success===
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− | ; A. What we'd like to see in our communities -- a bit of visioning
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− | * places/ways for women to have increased visibility to each other and talk w each other
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− | * promote the visibility and importance of the women already in the field using wiki pages which would be especially useful for conferences and awards
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− | * decentralize communities, ie have local meetups easier and cheaper to get to
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− | * education and mentoring and peer mentoring
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− | ; B. What we believe we can implement almost immediately to increase women's participation
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− | ; C. What we believe is reasonable in the next year (esp. making this a larger conversation)
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− | ; D. Some of the things we'd like to see in three years (this section should be an evolving document)
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− | ==Participants in the September 19th Caucus==
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− | * [[User:Deborah/Profile|Deborah Nicholson]]-- FSF Membership Coordinator, "freedeb" in [irc://irc.freenode.net/glofs #glofs on freenode.net].
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− | * Stormy Peters -- GNOME Foundation
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− | * Hillary Rettig -- author of The Lifelong Activist
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− | * Adelaida McIntire -- FSF Intern
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− | * [http://www.hawthornlandings.org Leslie Hawthorn] -- Google, @lh on identi.ca, lh on freenode.net
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− | * Mairin Duffy -- Red Hat, Fedora Project
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− | * [http://www.cs.umass.edu/~wallach Hanna Wallach] -- Debian Women, GNOME WSOP
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− | * Christine Spang -- at MIT, Debian
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− | * Marina Zhurakhinskaya -- GNOME
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− | ==Older notes==
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− | #framing our goals as a group
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− | # how to broaden this discussion and bring in more voices as we move forward
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− | # concrete actions to achieve balanced participation in the free software community
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− | Myself, Hillary and Adelaida met for lunch on August 19th to start sharing some ideas. Two things that came up were:
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− | # Linkages with other freedom movements and activist communities
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− | # Our web presence does not provide good entry points for those new to our issues
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− | ==External Links==
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− | * [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/ HOWTO Encourage Women in GNU/Linux]
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− | * [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/ Geek Feminism Wiki]
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