Hi Rosalyn,
I agree that we should encourage women to step up and mentor other women
at Code4Lib. I also see the pairing of women mentors with women mentees
as fitting into an overall mentorship program, and I would be interested
in collaborating with you and others to help frame it out.
I don't think it needs to be very formal, but it would be important to
give some structure to it so folks know what they are getting into, how
to make sure everyone meets their goals, and measure the effectiveness
of the program in terms of meeting code4lib goals (such as increasing
diversity, getting more volunteer help, etc.). We can start a wikipage
to start to flesh this out, unless folks would like to use a different
forum.
In addition to the RailsBridge workshop, I was thinking that Code4Lib
community projects would be a great way to both learn and recruit future
volunteers. I was also trying to find the list of maintenance projects
wiki page that someone (Jonathan?) was referring to as being top
priorities for Code4Lib. Is this it?
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/AdminToDo
Thoughts?
-Shaun
On 12/5/12 3:57 PM, Rosalyn Metz wrote:
So rather than focusing on statistics and math, I'd like to steer the
conversation in a different direction. Let's say Ross is right and more
women chose to take the survey based on the topic -- maybe that's a way to
get women involved in Code4Lib.
Karen had the idea of creating a women Code4Lib IRC channel, maybe that can
be a place to start. Or maybe we have a few women that are willing to step
up and be a Code4Lib mentor to other women -- similar to what we do for the
new member event at the conference. I'd even be willing to step up and
organize that if people like the idea.
Thoughts?
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:00 PM, stuart yeates <stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz>wrote:
On 06/12/12 09:05, Sara Amato wrote:
I'd been staying out of this discussion, but the thought occurs to me
that someone with access to the list of subscribers might run that against
a list of traditional boy/girl names, and be able to make some guesses….
That idea runs into problems both with non-western names (there is more
than one kind of diversity) and those people whose experience of gender in
the workplace have led them to use non-gender-specific identifiers.
cheers
stuart
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