Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> wrote:
> The way they do that is manifold, and we might want to try some or all
> of them in the context of DebConf, depending on the available
> resources. Here is a non-exhaustive list (I'll add more as soon as I
> recall them :-)):
This is a good list, I definitely think that we should try to go for
this and maybe even more for DebConf.
> - at each conference edition, communicate about the percentage of women
> speakers *at* the conference *and* on official project media, e.g.:
> "this year we have X% women speakers, that's an increase of +Y% over
> last year"
This is good, but we definitely need to actively recruit more female
speakers, otherwise the Y% might not be so nice.
> - reserve a given amount of well-visible (e.g. in the main talk room, or
> advertising them as "keynotes") talk slots in the conference program
> --- I guess this is not much of a problem for DebConf, as we rarely
> fill up the conference program *before* the conference, but we might
> want to think about something along similar lines
I think that the scheduling has been quite good in this sense,
although of course it makes sense to take it into account.
> - have specific travel grants / sponsoring for women speakers, possibly
> explicitly inviting them from other projects. Two remarks about this:
>
> - we have had multiple editions of the "DebConf Newbie" initiative in
> the past. This idea is very similar, but it will have a different
> target public (women DebConf participants instead of newbies)
Yes, I suggested doing something like that this year, but it's hard to
market it in a way that doesn't trigger negative feelings for the
group that is not included in the special group, isn't it?
--
Besos,
Marga
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