Ubuntu-Women IRC Meeting June 12 21:00 UTC 2008
The Ubuntu Women project has become very social hypa7ia felt this was one of the most important things the community could do
pleia2 agreed noting that it was cool that people were "sharing similar experiences, spending time with similar folks, [and] being supportive" but did not feel this should be everything.
hypa7ia agreed.
Duplication of effort continues to be a bothersome problem pleia2 offered http://ubuntu-women.org/getinv.html as an example.
The community has better sites like this and UW may be doing a disservice by creating their own
The duplication of effort problem justified moving away from doing Courses and promoting #ubuntu-classroom instead.
The mentoring program hypa7ia suggested positioning UW as more of a mentoring resource to encourage others to get involved.
pleia2 acknowledged this but added that in two years the UW mentoring program has not yet taken off.
Nightrose suggested that it may get better now that we have women in influential positions.
emmajane raised the open question of how many Ubuntu women "have time and are interested in being a mentor?"
It was suggested that finding mentors was easier than finding mentees.
emmajane offered that the focus should be on finding women good mentors regardless of gender.
Connecting people with mentors that aren't really committed could backfire and turn off new comers.
There was general agreement and it was affirmed that mentors do not have to be women, but merely good people.
There was general agreement that the UW mentoring project was worthwhile.
hypa7ia, Myrtti, and mouz each expressed an interest in receiving mentorship in packaging.
It was suggested that since much of the packaging process is similar in Debian, Ubuntu-Women could work with Debian-Women to get mentors for basic tutorials.
Myrtti suggested contacting maddog to see if he would like to be involved/offer suggestions.
james_w said he would like to help with mentoring if there was demand for it.
Should Ubuntu Women continue in its current form? The question was raised by emmajane who cited a lack of action as a major concern.
Ubuntu Women provides valuable support and resources for women in the Ubuntu community.
See http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Profiles
It was affirmed that the Profiles page is looking awesome.
emmajane offered that Ubuntu-Women needs to hold itself to the same standards as other sanctioned groups
More activity needs to be seen on the Ubuntu Women Road map.
Nightrose offered that Ubuntu Women could do more but what it was doing is enough.
When people post to the list UW responds with help.
emmajane noted that every other Ubuntu group has a road map and reports back to the main project on what has been accomplished.
emmajane's articles in Full Circle Magazine were cited by pleia2 as an example of such accomplishments
mouz made a 4 month commitment to read FCM and report UW columns on the list.
hypa7ia volunteered to make sure meetings happen more regularly.
emmajane reiterated her call for increased clarity, action, and personal accountability in Ubuntu-Women.
Streamlining Ubuntu-Women and decreasing redundancy Go through the Ubuntu Women website and remove redundancy. Point to the appropriate general community pages.
Remove content that is not sufficiently related to Ubuntu-women's issues.
Examples on the wiki include Human-Computer Interaction and Ubuntu Community Process
pleia2 volunteered to head this effort
The next meeting It was agreed that the next meeting would take place in about a month
After 46 minutes, this meeting of the Ubuntu-Women group was adjourned.