<quote who="Hanna M. Wallach" date="Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:59:56PM +0100"> > I sat in on the end of an SPI meeting a while ago, in which the > topic of volunteers for the membership committee was discussed. I > realised at that point that I would very much enjoy getting more > involved in SPI, but had always assumed that it just wasn't an > option because I wasn't one of the people who'd got involved in free > software way back when. I think this perception largely stems from > the fact that when I think of SPI, I tend to think of a group of > people all of whom have years of experience and a great deal of > knowledge relating to free software. I'm on the SPI board and am a relatively newcomer (at least compared to some of the other people involved) and I'm aware of this perception. I think this is one of a few perception problems that SPI needs to battle. While there is grain of truth to your perception, I think that the lack of new energy and new blood SPI is one of SPIs greatest limitations and problems. > Perhaps trying to address this perception would encourage more women > to participate in SPI? I think that leading by example and creating role models is going to the easiest and most effective thing. I encourage folks from Debian women to show up to SPI board meetings (next one is later today), sign up as contributing members on the SPI website, answer calls for help, join a SPI committee or two, and run for the SPI board next time there is an election. :) Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill mako@debian.org http://mako.cc/
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