In message <[🔎] 20050609050334.GA7542@fuchsia.puzzling.org">[🔎] 20050609050334.GA7542@fuchsia.puzzling.org> you wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005, Barton C Massey wrote: > > What we'd like to get from you, preferably in the next few days (the > > proposal deadline is June 14), is an organization leader's signature > > on a memorandum of understanding that would show your support for this > > proposal as we apply to the NSF for funding. I'd be happy to draft > > this memorandum with your guidance, or you may prefer to draft it > > yourselves. > > One problem you're about to run into with LinuxChix (I don't know about > Debian Women) is that its governance is kind of loose. LinuxChix is not > a registered association, organisation or company in any country. It > also, historically, doesn't make decisions as quickly as you seem to > want, primarily because it's entirely volunteer run. I understand. It's always challenging to put these kind of alliances together, and time pressure doesn't help. We'll do what we can in the time we have. > You probably want Jenn Vesperman's signature (note that she's in > Australia, if you want physical pieces of paper that quickly you may > have to pay for an international courier or express air mail). I sent Jenn email a while back, but haven't heard from her. I'm hoping that she got my email, and that I will get a response at some point soon. I'm not too worried about physical paper: scans or faxes should be fine for what we're doing.
> I would personally like to see your draft of the memorandum of > understanding, partly because drafting things by informal committee > (which is what we'd do at LinuxChix) takes a while, but mostly because > it will give us a better idea of what you actually want from us. I'll post it here tomorrow evening. It will look very much like what I just sent you, though :-). > On that note, would you like to contact the actionchix@linuxchix.org > list? It's never really gotten off the ground, but in theory the > subscribe base is most likely to contain volunteers for what you want: > the charter is meant to be Chix who want to do volunteer work (on FOSS, > women in computing and such like). An excellent suggestion. I'll give them a try. Thanks much, once again, for your most excellent insights. Bart _______________________________________________ Volunteers mailing list Volunteers@linuxchix.org http://mailman.linuxchix.org/mailman/listinfo/volunteers