Re: resource availability and (naive) ideas
Hi!
Thanks zack for the input :)
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli <leader@debian.org> wrote:
> - d-w meeting? I think that there is nothing as an in person meeting to
> restart activities and poor enthusiasm into past and future
> participants. I'm about to announce a general "debian sprint program"
> starting this fall, but I wanted you to know that I'll be very happy
> to poor some money into a d-w meeting, no matter that program. If you
> like the idea, just start drafting some organization and let me know
> how much you think it will cost. I'll do my best to have the resources
> to let you meet :)
So, I've been thinking about this, and it's not like we don't have
enough women: we have between 20 and 30 active women, maybe more, and
that's a big enough number to have a small meeting. However, we are
all over the world, flying to an in-person meeting takes time and (a
lot of) money. And also, doing a women-only meeting sounds weird to
me. We don't want to isolate that much from the whole Debian
community.
I've been thinking that something else that could be done along this
line would be to encourage (and sponsor) more local/pseudo-local women
to go to mini-debconfs. I've heard that there are a few mini-debconfs
coming up in Europe (.fr, .it) and it might be a good idea to choose
one of them and encourage the women in Europe to go there. It won't
be all of us, but it could be a nice group to start building up,
without spending that much time and money. If there is another
mini-DebConf in some other places, Debian Women that are near can try
to gather there as well.
Yet another possibility would be to do a bigger event, with all the
rest of women in Free Software groups (Ubuntu, Fedora, Mozilla, GNOME,
KDE, linuxchix?, etc). This would mean a lot of work in organization
and the like, but it might be worth it, I'm not sure.
--
Besos,
Marga
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