On 12/6/12 2:14 PM, Jessica Wood wrote:
Side note (also selfish): I hope that at least parts of this idea will be
available to people not attending the conference. I'd love to go to a
future conference, but I'm not making it to this one.
Jessica, I think that the term is "enlightened self interest" :-).
One thing I'm interested in is "train the trainer" capabilities. I have
a course that I give that I would like to make available as modules that
anyone can use. Mine happens to be on linked data, but there are a
number of (infinite number of?) other topics. I've been pressured to
turn my course into an online class but I think there is great value in
f2f teaching, as well as having learners work in groups rather than
remotely/individually. It would be great to have a set of courses that
any knowledgeable person could take up and teach to local folks, or as
pre-conference tutorials. As soon as I have enough content about my
course online, I'll be asking folks for comments, and see if we can set
up a train-the-trainer session. It's probably too late for this upcoming
c4l, but I will be looking for other opportunities.
kc
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Andromeda Yelton <[email protected]
wrote:
In terms of structure, drupalladder.org and Dreamwidth (
http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Dev_Getting_Started ) are good models
for how to scaffold the process for new developers, and to help new
community members regardless of skill level find places they can contribute
and understand the socially accepted workflow. --ay
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Rosalyn Metz <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hey Shaun,
I was actually thinking about some of this this morning, so I'm happy to
see there is someone else out there thinking about the same things.
I like the idea of some type of structure to a program, I wonder if maybe
we could combine Karen's idea of training with a mentorship program.
I also like your idea of projects being a way to recruit future
volunteers,
both because it helps us know where to go to find people, but also
because
it would help newbies figure out what's out there in the Code4Lib world
(it
took me forever to realize that the website was something i needed a
password to in order to vote).
If you already started a wiki page point me to it, I'm happy to start
fleshing out ideas!
Rosalyn
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Shaun Ellis <[email protected]>
wrote:
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<
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 <
[email protected]
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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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