dei March 2016

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Flock Submission for Women in open source.
by Amita 06 Apr '16

06 Apr '16

Hello Everyone, As promised, below is my submission for flock. Feel free to pitch in to add more value. women in open source ========================= My paper will highlight different aspect of diversity and how fedora is supporting diversity in all terms, but my paper is focused more on women. It is wonderful to be a women. A powerful gender that supports the rights and equality of women. Be it social, political, economic, cultural or open source - women should have equal rights. But, If we look at the percentage of women participation in any filed, be it open source or any other field, ratio is damn poor. We, being in the eligible category to guide other women for open source culture, should take steps forward to make this ratio better. I know, taking initiative in this man dominant world, is not easy. But together, we can and we will make the difference. Every tiny little step counts, like educating poor female children, reaching out to college girls to spread knowledge and opportunities about open source, educating them about Ada Initiative, the GNOME Project’s Outreach Program for Women, OpenHatch and Women in Drupal, pyladies, GSOC. There are so many nice outreach programs for women in open source, we just need to spread the knowledge and motivate every women out there to join the movement. There are lots of things to do, it is not just coding in fact, you can do many different plus exciting things in open source i.e. writing, documentation, designing, translation, testing etc. It is duty of every established women in open source to take a pledge that she will educate/help/motivate atleast 2 other women in her life span to join open source community and make this open source culture more lovable and beautiful and little more feminist. Thanks & Regards, Amita(Ami)

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Flock Proposal = "Diversity Panel: Building an inclusive community"
by María Leandro 01 Apr '16

01 Apr '16

Hello All! I'm about to propose a Panel for Flock, where we can have representatives from diverse minorities to speak up about their experience. The idea is to let people know how diverse we are, how we come up with that and how we keep doing great work within Fedora. I would be interested on have at least 3 members to work out this with me, but time is running out, we don't have much time. Please, share this email with your friends and let them know what's going up. NOTE: It can be either people who will attend to Flock or people that is willing to do video (hangout or recordings) Thank you all! -- tatica Maria Gracia Leandro http://www.tatica.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:tatica LinuxUser= 440285 GPG Public Key: E1CDCC56

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Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility!!!
by María Leandro 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

Hello! Just dropping some lines to say happy day to all of you who work everyday to inspire all trans and gender non-conforming people to realize a world where we are safe, loved, and empowered. We strive to create a diverse communities to unite everyone and let everyone know that a diverse community is better than anything! Keep bringing color to Fedora and Happy Day! -- tatica Maria Gracia Leandro http://www.tatica.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:tatica LinuxUser= 440285 GPG Public Key: E1CDCC56

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Weekly Diversity Meeting, 2016-03-30
by Justin W. Flory 30 Mar '16

30 Mar '16

Meeting ended Wed Mar 30 14:27:38 2016 UTC. Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-diversity/2016-03-30/fedora_divers… Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-diversity/2016-03-30/fedora_divers… Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-diversity/2016-03-30/fedora_divers… * * * * * =========================================== #fedora-diversity: Fedora Diversity Meeting =========================================== Meeting started by tatica at 13:16:58 UTC. The full logs are available at https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-diversity/2016-03-30/fedora_divers… . Meeting summary --------------- * roll call (tatica, 13:17:08) * Fedora Women Day - July (tatica, 13:20:32) * ACTION: add a wiki page for the activity (tatica, 13:21:02) * Fedora Women Day - July (tatica, 13:21:37) * LINK: https://thegnomejournal.wordpress.com/2009/11/ (tatica, 13:25:33) * ACTION: Create article about female participans of GSoC (Mentors and Students) (tatica, 13:27:36) * Magazine Article (tatica, 13:32:41) * ACTION: pull a list of females to interview for the GSoC experience article (tatica, 13:35:08) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Riecatnor (Amita, 13:37:08) * ACTION: women to ask to write articles: mizmo, Amita, tatica, labbott, reicatnor, emily (marinaz, 13:37:54) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Diversity_Adviser#Current_Activities (tatica, 13:38:15) * flock (tatica, 13:52:17) * ACTION: Amita will lead the Fedora Women talk proposal for Flock and email us her abstract to provide feedback (tatica, 13:59:38) * ACTION: start a mail thread for discussing talk submission in flock (Amita, 13:59:51) * Survey (tatica, 14:05:40) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Riecatnor is my favorite (Amita, 14:08:55) * ACTION: email the list to reach potential speakers for the diversity panel (tatica, 14:10:07) * Open Floor (tatica, 14:11:10) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSOC_2016/Student_Application_bee2502 (jflory7, 14:12:20) * ACTION: tatica wrote an email to diversity list about Diversity Panel, please share up! (tatica, 14:16:14) * ACTION: decause create limesurvey account for OSAS with jzb (decause, 14:20:11) * AGREED: Amita and marinaz will start working on the Fedora Women article of GSoC participation (jflory7, 14:22:08) * AGREED: flock: amita send us the abstract for feedback - email about panel is up, waiting for response and submit proposal (jflory7, 14:22:11) * AGREED: leave Fedora Women Day planning for next week once we finish flock tasks (jflory7, 14:22:18) Meeting ended at 14:27:38 UTC. Action Items ------------ * add a wiki page for the activity * Create article about female participans of GSoC (Mentors and Students) * pull a list of females to interview for the GSoC experience article * women to ask to write articles: mizmo, Amita, tatica, labbott, reicatnor, emily * Amita will lead the Fedora Women talk proposal for Flock and email us her abstract to provide feedback * start a mail thread for discussing talk submission in flock * email the list to reach potential speakers for the diversity panel * tatica wrote an email to diversity list about Diversity Panel, please share up! * decause create limesurvey account for OSAS with jzb Action Items, by person ----------------------- * Amita * women to ask to write articles: mizmo, Amita, tatica, labbott, reicatnor, emily * Amita will lead the Fedora Women talk proposal for Flock and email us her abstract to provide feedback * decause * decause create limesurvey account for OSAS with jzb * mizmo * women to ask to write articles: mizmo, Amita, tatica, labbott, reicatnor, emily * tatica * women to ask to write articles: mizmo, Amita, tatica, labbott, reicatnor, emily * tatica wrote an email to diversity list about Diversity Panel, please share up! * **UNASSIGNED** * add a wiki page for the activity * Create article about female participans of GSoC (Mentors and Students) * pull a list of females to interview for the GSoC experience article * start a mail thread for discussing talk submission in flock * email the list to reach potential speakers for the diversity panel People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * tatica (139) * Amita (114) * marinaz (62) * jflory7 (46) * mizmo (26) * decause (25) * zodbot (22) * meskarune (19) * mieko (12) * cialu (3) * mailga (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

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Re: Announcing Fedora's Diversity Adviser and Newest Council Member: María “tatica” Leandro!
by María Leandro 24 Mar '16

24 Mar '16

Thank you all!!! Lets keep rocking fedora! 2016-03-24 3:27 GMT-04:30 Robert Mayr <robyduck(a)fedoraproject.org>: > 2016-03-24 2:15 GMT+01:00 Remy DeCausemaker <decause(a)redhat.com>: > >> Fedorans, >> >> As some of you may recall, Fedora added a new seat to the Fedora >> Council for a Diversity Adviser. >> >> It is with great pleasure that we do hereby announce, that this seat >> has been filled by long-time Fedora contributor María “tatica” >> Leandro! >> >> [snip] >> > > >> Congratulations Tatica, and please all join me in giving her a warm >> welcome to the Council :) >> --RemyD. >> >> >> -- >> Remy DeCausemaker >> Fedora Community Lead & Council >> <decause(a)redhat.com> >> https://whatcanidoforfedora.org > > > > Great! > Marìa, I wish you good luck, your experience within the Fedora Project > will help you a lot to make a good job also as Diversity Adviser. Welcome > also to the Council and see you at the next meeting ;) > Cheers. > > -- > Robert Mayr > (robyduck) > > _______________________________________________ > council-discuss mailing list > council-discuss(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/council-discuss@lists.fedoraproj… > > The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and > open source software and content as a collaborative community. > -- tatica Maria Gracia Leandro http://www.tatica.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:tatica LinuxUser= 440285 GPG Public Key: E1CDCC56

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Announcing Fedora's Diversity Adviser and Newest Council Member: María “tatica” Leandro!
by Remy DeCausemaker 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

Fedorans, As some of you may recall, Fedora added a new seat to the Fedora Council for a Diversity Adviser. It is with great pleasure that we do hereby announce, that this seat has been filled by long-time Fedora contributor María “tatica” Leandro! https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tatica The Fedora Diversity Adviser acts as a source of support and information for all contributors and users, especially those from underrepresented populations, so that issues of inclusion and equity can be discussed and addressed with planning and strategy. The Fedora Diversity Adviser will lead initiatives to assess and promote equality and inclusion within the Fedora contributor and user communities, and will develop project strategy on diversity issues. The Diversity Adviser will also be the point of contact for Fedora’s participation in third-party outreach programs and events. Full description here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Diversity_Adviser To help communicate the responsibilities of the position, we asked María a few questions about being the Diversity Adviser and any goals she had as she begins her new position on the Fedora Community Blog. Here is an excerpt: ---Snip--- Q: How would you describe your position as Diversity Adviser in relation to the current situation in Fedora? A: “Since this is the first time Fedora set a position like this, I see my role more as an informative one. Fedora is a quite diverse community despite what most people think. We have contributors all around the world who gather every day to create fantastic software and spread knowledge; breaking gender, language and distance barriers on a daily basis. I also want to serve as a mediator, and let our contributors know that Fedora has ears for everyone. It’s no secret that being different is great, but sometimes that puts you on a vulnerable position (as a Latin American, Spanish Speaker and Female contributor, I can relate to some), and we want to make sure everyone feels comfortable with the Fedora family.” Q: What are some of your goals or vision as Fedora’s Diversity Adviser? A: “I will start kicking a small survey to know how diverse our community is, as it’s important to me to understand the reach of our contributors, their experiences, needs and culture prior to start any project. It is no secret that to know our future actions we need to know our numbers, and because we are such a worldwide community, sometimes we have a huge lack of information about those who constantly help us be what we are. These actions will allow us to have a yearly report that will show us more in detail how our progress on diversity have worked out. This is not a life-time position, so my main goal is to leave all the needed information ready and available for those who will follow. Everything in Fedora is a team work, and the Diversity Adviser position is no different from others. As we start to learn more from our contributors we will also be able to create programs to help each minority group. I would like this to be the second stage of the diversity action plan for 2016. Either gather once a week to practice English for about half an hour with some volunteers, to make monthly meetings where one of our contributors enlighten us with something about their culture; the idea is to spread knowledge beyond just technology. Also having a monthly short meeting to discuss those topics that might need help (revisions on our politics, codes of conduct, an anti-harassment paper, etc.) or just someone that wants to tell their experiences. I’m interested into people knowing that Fedora has an insane cultural background and maybe in a near future, this will open the eyes of those who think that everything in Fedora is plain blue.” ---Snip--- This interview originally appeared as part of a larger article on the Fedora Community Blog, titled "Women in Computing and Fedora". You're encouraged to give it a read and share it with others in and out of the community! https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/women-in-computing-and-fedora/ María is available weekly on Tuesdays at 12:30pm UTC in #fedora-diversity on Freenode, where you are invited to stop by and join the conversation. Congratulations Tatica, and please all join me in giving her a warm welcome to the Council :) --RemyD. -- Remy DeCausemaker Fedora Community Lead & Council <decause(a)redhat.com> https://whatcanidoforfedora.org

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Today's meeting.
by Amita 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

Hi All, So we were supposed to meet at --> Regular meeting time :: Every wed/12:30UTC. Did I miss some communication, I don't see meeting happening right now at #fedora-diversity. Thanks & Regards, Ami

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Re: [Fedora Women] Rethinking Pooling Strategies
by Justin W. Flory 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

On 03/13/2016 02:08 PM, A. Mani wrote: > We had a joint meeting on #archlinux-women yesterday and did discuss a > few plans. > > But we really need to plan more sustainable models in the face of > competing projects and address gaps in our targeting. > > > > Best > > A. Mani Think you could share some of the links from the discussions at the meeting here on the list too? Just so they're in a place we can refer back to. :) Thanks! -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

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Fwd: [Fedora Women] Rethinking Pooling Strategies
by Amita 13 Mar '16

13 Mar '16

FYI -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Fedora Women] Rethinking Pooling Strategies Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 23:38:39 +0530 From: A. Mani <a.mani.cms(a)gmail.com> To: Ubuntu-Women <ubuntu-women(a)lists.ubuntu.com>, women <women(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>, arch-women(a)lists.archlinux.org We had a joint meeting on #archlinux-women yesterday and did discuss a few plans. But we really need to plan more sustainable models in the face of competing projects and address gaps in our targeting. Best A. Mani Prof(Miss) A. Mani CU, ASL, AMS, ISRS, CLC, CMS HomePage: http://www.logicamani.in Blog: http://logicamani.blogspot.in/ http://about.me/logicamani sip:girlprofessor@ekiga.net _______________________________________________ women mailing list women(a)lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/women@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Re: [commops] Re: [Ambassadors] Diversity Meeting Minutes
by Justin W. Flory 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

On 03/10/2016 10:20 AM, Corey Sheldon wrote: > Next weeks mtg is ON WEDNESDAY @ 1230UTC not thursday Unfortunately, I'm still unable to make this time, but I will do my best to keep current on meeting minutes and discussions on diversity(a)lists.fedoraproject.org. -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

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