hi femke,
your efforts in this area really made a difference, & certainly helped
me to attend the LGM.
the question of visibility brings us back to what initiated this
discussion - & this discussion itself is helping to increase visibility,
as are the initiatives that you link to & the deliberate steps that were
taken to include women in 2010. a certain amount of "brute force" does
have its uses.
h : )
This change did not happen automatically. For Brussels 2010 we worked
with gnome-women, debian-women, LinuxChix and other activist groups to
locate and invite women involved in Libre Graphics. We wrote e-mails
to women we knew were active in LG, but never had considered
participating. We specifically targeted support to women speakers
through funding and lodging. Also the grant from the OIF helped widen
the scope of participants. We made sure that volunteer-teams were
mixed and replacing T-shirts by aprons was not an accident either.
g) +1 on Prokoudine's point. Maybe looking at the ratio is a bit of a
brute force type of tactic which really doesn't necessarily take into
account the actual impact of women in the event and the community.
This might be true, but than the question is: How do we make sure that
their impact is equally visible?
Femke
- Free Software Foundation, recommendations from the womens caucus:
http://www.fsf.org/news/recommendations-from-the-womens-caucus
- Kirrily Robbins, Standing Out in the Crowd:
http://www.oscon.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/10173
- Python foundation diversity statement:
http://www.python.org/community/diversity
- Gnome Outreach Program for Women:
http://projects.gnome.org/outreach/women
- Debian Women Mentoring Program: http://women.debian.org/mentoring
- FLOSSPOLS (EU study about the societal impact of F/LOSS. A few years
old, but still relevant) D17 - Gender: Policy Recommendations
http://flosspols.org/deliverables/FLOSSPOLS-D17-Gender_Policy_Recommendations.pdf
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