On 06/16/2016 09:00 AM, Kushal Das wrote:
On 15/06/16, Priyanka Nag wrote:
Hey all,
I am not sure if you are aware of the initiative taken by Fedora Women team to help raise awareness and thank the women contributors across the Fedora Project by celebrating the 3rd weekend of July as the Fedora Women Day[1].
Amita and I were planning to host a local version of this event here at Pune. The entire planning process is at a very initial phase and we need your help and input to go ahead with it. Since none of us have ever organized a Fedora event before, we are both pretty unaware of the processes around it.
I was reaching out to you all, to request for a quick meeting sometime early next week, to plan further on this. Let me know a suitable time and I can send out meeting invitations accordingly.
Since I am not a part of the Fedora community yet, I might have missed out on adding someone in this thread. Please feel free to go ahead and add more people who you think can help us with the event.
This discussion should really happen on the Fedora India mailing list if we are interested to have any community event. I have mentioned about public discussion in the actual budget request ticket on Fedora APAC trac [1].
yeah, good point, CCing mailing list and forwarding rest of the conversation also on the list.
I am also CCing site (Rupali) here as I heard that the initial request for the event was only for an internal event to RH. Rupali can confirm more about this.
As Amit pointed out in another email in this thread, we should make sure that we showcase people's actual achievements in upstream contributions in Fedora land. Other than that it will not be that much of a Fedora event.
Sure, Please feel free to edit wiki page (draft) [1] to add your name/names as speakers, whoever wants to talk more on actual upstream contribution. This is the link of the main event - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Women_Day_2016
Indeed, it is a fedora event. I appreciate your guidance and help.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWD_Pune
Thanks & Regards, Amita
[1] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-apac/ticket/237
Kushal
On 16 June 2016 at 10:05, Amita Sharma amsharma@redhat.com wrote:
Sure, Please feel free to edit wiki page (draft) [1] to add your name/names as speakers, whoever wants to talk more on actual upstream contribution. This is the link of the main event - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Women_Day_2016
Indeed, it is a fedora event. I appreciate your guidance and help.
Can we please not market this as a Fedora event? Or if we are, please make a more serious attempt to involve the community in it. That is, please try and do the following:
1. Send a 'first class' communication about the event on the mailing list, not a forwarded snippet of some arbitrary conversation that happened internally in Red Hat. It took me a while to even understand what was being talked about from the two emails
2. Make the meeting times public so that if anyone from outside RH wants to join, then they can. Not a lot actually do in my experience, but you're part of a larger community so please at least do due diligence. Also, we don't have kerberos ids in Fedora, so I assume you're talking about RH internal kerberos ids in the piratepad link[1] on the wiki page. I don't know why that is important in Fedora
3. Speaking about a topic is not just about content (that anybody can read a wiki page and deliver) but about presenting an example of a community member. Apart from some, I could not identify a lot of the people from the speaker list in the piratepad page as contributors to Fedora. I also did not see a call for speakers for the event, which is something you'd want to do if you don't have qualified speakers for the event. I guess you could bias the selection process in favour of women since it is a women's day event, but I don't know how women's day celebrations work so I don't know how that works.
Siddhesh
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com wrote:
Can we please not market this as a Fedora event? Or if we are, please make a more serious attempt to involve the community in it. That is, please try and do the following:
- Send a 'first class' communication about the event on the mailing
list, not a forwarded snippet of some arbitrary conversation that happened internally in Red Hat. It took me a while to even understand what was being talked about from the two emails
You seem to have missed all the conversations in the Fedora Women and Diversity list Everything was done in these.
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
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 9:34 PM, A. Mani a.mani.cms@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com wrote:
Can we please not market this as a Fedora event? Or if we are, please make a more serious attempt to involve the community in it. That is, please try and do the following:
- Send a 'first class' communication about the event on the mailing
list, not a forwarded snippet of some arbitrary conversation that happened internally in Red Hat. It took me a while to even understand what was being talked about from the two emails
You seem to have missed all the conversations in the Fedora Women and Diversity list Everything was done in these.
I think Siddhesh has given this feedback on Pune event[1] only to which I also agree.
If there are Fedora contributors who want to organize an event, I don't think there will be any problem for funding that event. But that event should have speakers who have actually worked for Fedora. I don't know how can a person who has not experienced any Fedora contribution can even talk about Fedora.
Regards, Parag.
On 27 June 2016 at 21:34, A. Mani a.mani.cms@gmail.com wrote:
You seem to have missed all the conversations in the Fedora Women and Diversity list Everything was done in these.
Firstly I want to clarify that I am not talking about the Kolkata event because there is a formal CfP out on this list and there is not a lot to complain about there. It would be nice however if you could link the speaker names to their user pages to know who they are.
So moving on, I have missed the discussions because I am not on those mailing lists. Likewise, I am sure a lot of women contributors to Fedora who may be qualified and interested in attending and speaking at the conference may have missed the conversation completely and may find themselves excluded. When doing a local chapter of a global event, it is not sufficient to just reach out to the global lists, one must reach out locally.
I did file a apac trac ticket long ago The problem is budget is to be specified beforehand (in previous year). We conceived this event in March-April. So the Kolkata event is mainly getting sponsored by Ubuntu Women.
Again, while my question in this context was specifically for the Pune event it also wanted to pick at the inability of the local ambassadors to be able to push for a budget when we hardly utilize anything that is allocated to us anyway. I don't exclude myself from that charge just because I was unavailable to contribute to it.
However looking at the ticket, the items you need like stickers and dvds could have been obtained by asking on this list or making a specific request for it on trac. Those items don't need to be part of the event budget. Travel subsidy for this event seems excessive given that I haven't seen it happen outside of premiere events.
I think PJP (pjp AT fedoraproject.org ) can help with DVDs and stickers if you haven't reached out to him already.
Siddhesh
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:12 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 June 2016 at 21:34, A. Mani a.mani.cms@gmail.com wrote:
You seem to have missed all the conversations in the Fedora Women and Diversity list Everything was done in these.
Firstly I want to clarify that I am not talking about the Kolkata event because there is a formal CfP out on this list and there is not a lot to complain about there. It would be nice however if you could link the speaker names to their user pages to know who they are.
Even in that event, except one person no one else is a known contributor in Fedora.
Kushal
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Kushal Das kushaldas@gmail.com wrote:
Even in that event, except one person no one else is a known contributor in Fedora.
These days, I have been contributing intermittently and was more active before. Trishna is new contributor Priyanka has been involved in a number of FOSS events and is a new Fedora contributor
So three in all
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
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:58 PM, A. Mani a.mani.cms@gmail.com wrote:
These days, I have been contributing intermittently and was more active before. Trishna is new contributor Priyanka has been involved in a number of FOSS events and is a new Fedora contributor
So three in all
Co-organiser is also in Fedora
new contributor
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
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:12 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com wrote:
Firstly I want to clarify that I am not talking about the Kolkata event because there is a formal CfP out on this list and there is not a lot to complain about there. It would be nice however if you could link the speaker names to their user pages to know who they are.
Done yesterday,
So moving on, I have missed the discussions because I am not on those mailing lists. Likewise, I am sure a lot of women contributors to Fedora who may be qualified and interested in attending and speaking at the conference may have missed the conversation completely and may find themselves excluded. When doing a local chapter of a global event, it is not sufficient to just reach out to the global lists, one must reach out locally.
Speakers were selected from the responses in many lists. I might have missed a few lists true ( there were no mails in the India list for long), but potential speaker list was already full.
Attending part: I don't think anybody will be missing it
I think PJP (pjp AT fedoraproject.org ) can help with DVDs and stickers if you haven't reached out to him already.
Thanks, have sent mail
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
Hey all,
I am not much involved with the Fedora community, so not even sure if I should comment on this thread..but since I have been involved in the planning of the FWD Pune event and am also a speaker for the FWD Kolkata event, I wanted to share my thoughts around this discussion as well.
I understand that speaking on any topic just by reading it up on a wiki page is never enough and should be avoided. But here we have a small chicken and egg problem. Since we don't have too many female Fedora contributors at Pune, we can't find speakers who could talk on different ways one could contribute to Fedora and since we never talk on these contribution pathways and how to get started, we can't manage to find more contributors. So, the idea was to get a few enthusiastic participants, who were willing to find out about these different contribution pathways and how to get started and give a presentation to the rest of our audience.
Other than this, whether this can be called a Fedora event or not...well, I don't think I am eligible to comment on that. Whereas I always love events to be community events and not individual or an organizational initiative...but I am not sure what is best here with respect to the Fedora community.
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar < siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16 June 2016 at 10:05, Amita Sharma amsharma@redhat.com wrote:
Sure, Please feel free to edit wiki page (draft) [1] to add your
name/names
as speakers, whoever wants to talk more on actual upstream contribution. This is the link of the main event - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Women_Day_2016
Indeed, it is a fedora event. I appreciate your guidance and help.
Can we please not market this as a Fedora event? Or if we are, please make a more serious attempt to involve the community in it. That is, please try and do the following:
- Send a 'first class' communication about the event on the mailing
list, not a forwarded snippet of some arbitrary conversation that happened internally in Red Hat. It took me a while to even understand what was being talked about from the two emails
- Make the meeting times public so that if anyone from outside RH
wants to join, then they can. Not a lot actually do in my experience, but you're part of a larger community so please at least do due diligence. Also, we don't have kerberos ids in Fedora, so I assume you're talking about RH internal kerberos ids in the piratepad link[1] on the wiki page. I don't know why that is important in Fedora
- Speaking about a topic is not just about content (that anybody can
read a wiki page and deliver) but about presenting an example of a community member. Apart from some, I could not identify a lot of the people from the speaker list in the piratepad page as contributors to Fedora. I also did not see a call for speakers for the event, which is something you'd want to do if you don't have qualified speakers for the event. I guess you could bias the selection process in favour of women since it is a women's day event, but I don't know how women's day celebrations work so I don't know how that works.
Siddhesh
[1] http://piratepad.net/a5QZnEPaP8
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On 28 June 2016 at 16:02, Priyanka Nag priynag@gmail.com wrote:
I am not much involved with the Fedora community, so not even sure if I should comment on this thread..but since I have been involved in the planning of the FWD Pune event and am also a speaker for the FWD Kolkata event, I wanted to share my thoughts around this discussion as well.
Please don't hesitate to share your thoughts even if you're not sure about them, that's how we move things forward.
I understand that speaking on any topic just by reading it up on a wiki page is never enough and should be avoided. But here we have a small chicken and egg problem. Since we don't have too many female Fedora contributors at Pune, we can't find speakers who could talk on different ways one could contribute to Fedora and since we never talk on these contribution pathways and how to get started, we can't manage to find more contributors. So, the idea was to get a few enthusiastic participants, who were willing to find out about these different contribution pathways and how to get started and give a presentation to the rest of our audience.
I personally don't doubt the intent of any organizers and I know such oversight is not uncommon especially due to the fragmented nature of communities. I also acknowledge the chicken and egg problem. I only disagree with the solution, which was to take the easy way out and go with almost an all-Red Hat lineup without making an attempt to make a call for participation in a wider and more relevant audience like fedora-india, GLUG, PLUG, etc. You could even invite speakers to talk over a video chat, there are a number of ideas that you could come up with along these lines before thinking of the compromise.
Also, it is not that we never talk about pathways to contribution, in fact my personal beef is that "Contributing to Fedora" is almost all we talk about all the time and I'd really like us to move forward from that :)
Other than this, whether this can be called a Fedora event or not...well, I don't think I am eligible to comment on that. Whereas I always love events to be community events and not individual or an organizational initiative...but I am not sure what is best here with respect to the Fedora community.
Contrary to what my response seems to indicate, I would really like this to be a Fedora event. For it to qualify to be a Fedora event however, it needs to be much more transparent than it currently is.
Siddhesh
On 28 June 2016 at 16:02, Priyanka Nag priynag@gmail.com wrote:
I understand that speaking on any topic just by reading it up on a wiki page is never enough and should be avoided. But here we have a small chicken and egg problem. Since we don't have too many female Fedora contributors at Pune, we can't find speakers who could talk on different ways one could contribute to Fedora and since we never talk on these contribution pathways and how to get started, we can't manage to find more contributors. So, the idea was to get a few enthusiastic participants, who were willing to find out about these different contribution pathways and how to get started and give a presentation to the rest of our audience.
That is why i feel this event should happen and you all are almost there.
:) All suggestions are here is to get event successful and get more community next time. As suggested in other emails, combination of Fedora Contributors from Red Hat, Some hangout sessions with community contributors and few with new enthusiastic participants (college/company) can make it truly successful.
Best Regards, Pravin Satpute
Hey all,
A few of the local Fedora ambassadors and event organizers for FWD Pune event met this morning for a quick discussion on the proposed event and here we have the meeting notes for everyone:
[1] Apologies that this part wasn't well explained previously but the list of talks that you see on the pirate pad, mainly under the '*Getting Started with your Fedora contribution' *section are going to be flash talks for 5 mins each. Since we couldn't find existing female contributors in all of these different contribution pathways, to share their experience with us; a group of volunteers decided to try finding out details about these different contribution pathways, how to get started, the related IRC channels and mailing lists for each and finally give a 5 min presentation about their findings. This can save the rest of the audience's effort to do a complete research on the different contribution pathways (which is often the first barrier in contribution) and they should have most of the data at hand to now go back and start contributing. The FWD event was also thought of as a first step to initiating a consistent women contributor community, where each month we could take up one of these contribution pathways and make it as the flavor of the month...doing some actual hands-on contribution together for that chosen project or pathway. This can probably even be clubbed with the monthly Fedora meetups that we have in Pune. That ofcourse can be discussed in more details with the local ambassadors.
[2] The new speakers can try and do some actual contributions before the FWD event so that they can also share their experience (and blockers) at the event. They could also join the upcoming Fedora monthly meetup and release party, planned on 9th July, at Pune.
[3] The organizers are suggested to try reach out to college students (not just via emails or messages, but by physically going down to colleges) since this event can be a good place for new contributors to know how to get started with their contribution as well as meet other existing and experienced community members.
[4] The organizers are also suggested to do more social media posts about the event, so as to create more awareness around this event.
[5] The new contributors and speakers can also join the Fedora telegram group, since not all of us are big IRC fans.
[6] The speaker and attendee list to be moved to Wiki from the etherpad.
I hope I have covered all the points that was discussed in today's meeting. If not, today's meeting attendees, please add those points to the thread here.
If anyone has any further questions on any of the above points or any suggestions for the event in general, please do feel free to shoot a response to this thread.
On 06/29/2016 03:05 PM, Priyanka Nag wrote:
Hey all,
A few of the local Fedora ambassadors and event organizers for FWD Pune event met this morning for a quick discussion on the proposed event and here we have the meeting notes for everyone:
[1] Apologies that this part wasn't well explained previously but the list of talks that you see on the pirate pad, mainly under the '*Getting Started with your Fedora contribution' *section are going**to be flash talks for 5 mins each. Since we couldn't find existing female contributors in all of these different contribution pathways, to share their experience with us; a group of volunteers decided to try finding out details about these different contribution pathways, how to get started, the related IRC channels and mailing lists for each and finally give a 5 min presentation about their findings. This can save the rest of the audience's effort to do a complete research on the different contribution pathways (which is often the first barrier in contribution) and they should have most of the data at hand to now go back and start contributing. The FWD event was also thought of as a first step to initiating a consistent women contributor community, where each month we could take up one of these contribution pathways and make it as the flavor of the month...doing some actual hands-on contribution together for that chosen project or pathway. This can probably even be clubbed with the monthly Fedora meetups that we have in Pune. That ofcourse can be discussed in more details with the local ambassadors.
[2] The new speakers can try and do some actual contributions before the FWD event so that they can also share their experience (and blockers) at the event. They could also join the upcoming Fedora monthly meetup and release party, planned on 9th July, at Pune.
[3] The organizers are suggested to try reach out to college students (not just via emails or messages, but by physically going down to colleges) since this event can be a good place for new contributors to know how to get started with their contribution as well as meet other existing and experienced community members.
[4] The organizers are also suggested to do more social media posts about the event, so as to create more awareness around this event.
[5] The new contributors and speakers can also join the Fedora telegram group, since not all of us are big IRC fans.
[6] The speaker and attendee list to be moved to Wiki from the etherpad.
Thanks, updated https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWD_Pune .
Regards, Amita
I hope I have covered all the points that was discussed in today's meeting. If not, today's meeting attendees, please add those points to the thread here.
If anyone has any further questions on any of the above points or any suggestions for the event in general, please do feel free to shoot a response to this thread.
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On 29 June 2016 at 15:05, Priyanka Nag priynag@gmail.com wrote:
[1] Apologies that this part wasn't well explained previously but the list of talks that you see on the pirate pad, mainly under the 'Getting Started with your Fedora contribution' section are going to be flash talks for 5 mins each. Since we couldn't find existing female contributors in all of these different contribution pathways, to share their experience with us; a group of volunteers decided to try finding out details about these different contribution pathways, how to get started, the related IRC channels and mailing lists for each and finally give a 5 min presentation about their findings. This can save the rest of the audience's effort to do a complete research on the different contribution pathways (which is often the first barrier in contribution) and they should have most of the data at hand to now go back and start contributing. The FWD event was also thought of as a first step to initiating a consistent women contributor community, where each month we could take up one of these contribution pathways and make it as the flavor of the month...doing some actual hands-on contribution together for that chosen project or pathway. This can probably even be clubbed with the monthly Fedora meetups that we have in Pune. That ofcourse can be discussed in more details with the local ambassadors.
While getting local ambassadors in loop is useful from a logistics and/or budget perspective, what's more important here is to reach out to as many *existing* women contributors as possible (and as early as possible) so that you exhaust all of your options of getting qualified speakers (local or remote) before you resort to doing it yourself within Red Hat by reading up the wiki pages.
[2] The new speakers can try and do some actual contributions before the FWD event so that they can also share their experience (and blockers) at the event. They could also join the upcoming Fedora monthly meetup and release party, planned on 9th July, at Pune.
I can't see how that will work in practice. It surely took me more than 2 weeks to get myself into the various groups I am currently in, so actually doing something useful will have to come after that. In any case, that doesn't solve the issue I pointed out.
That said, please don't misunderstand my objection as an objection to anybody participating in the community. My point is that people should be encouraged to participate for the right reasons. That is, join the community to pitch in, learn and grow and not just gain credentials as a speaker, that too on the basis of being employed at the company that is hosting the event.
[3] The organizers are suggested to try reach out to college students (not just via emails or messages, but by physically going down to colleges) since this event can be a good place for new contributors to know how to get started with their contribution as well as meet other existing and experienced community members.
+1. I believe Red Hat has contacts in Cummins College for example. They have been active in the django and/or python community in the past IIRC, so I am sure they will look forward to the event. There are a number of women teachers in MITCOE who I am sure will be interested too. I'm sure there are other colleges we can reach out to.
[4] The organizers are also suggested to do more social media posts about the event, so as to create more awareness around this event.
Sure, but my first point stays: please make a bigger effort to reach out to existing women contributors to share their experiences.
[5] The new contributors and speakers can also join the Fedora telegram group, since not all of us are big IRC fans.
/me grumbles about these younglings not getting it...
Siddhesh
On 06/29/2016 10:44 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 29 June 2016 at 15:05, Priyanka Nag priynag@gmail.com wrote:
[1] Apologies that this part wasn't well explained previously but the list of talks that you see on the pirate pad, mainly under the 'Getting Started with your Fedora contribution' section are going to be flash talks for 5 mins each. Since we couldn't find existing female contributors in all of these different contribution pathways, to share their experience with us; a group of volunteers decided to try finding out details about these different contribution pathways, how to get started, the related IRC channels and mailing lists for each and finally give a 5 min presentation about their findings. This can save the rest of the audience's effort to do a complete research on the different contribution pathways (which is often the first barrier in contribution) and they should have most of the data at hand to now go back and start contributing. The FWD event was also thought of as a first step to initiating a consistent women contributor community, where each month we could take up one of these contribution pathways and make it as the flavor of the month...doing some actual hands-on contribution together for that chosen project or pathway. This can probably even be clubbed with the monthly Fedora meetups that we have in Pune. That ofcourse can be discussed in more details with the local ambassadors.
While getting local ambassadors in loop is useful from a logistics and/or budget perspective, what's more important here is to reach out to as many *existing* women contributors as possible (and as early as possible) so that you exhaust all of your options of getting qualified speakers (local or remote) before you resort to doing it yourself within Red Hat by reading up the wiki pages.
Thanks, I have reached out to the global fedora women contributors for the participation. As time zone is the issue to be live, so I have requested them for the recorded videos.
[2] The new speakers can try and do some actual contributions before the FWD event so that they can also share their experience (and blockers) at the event. They could also join the upcoming Fedora monthly meetup and release party, planned on 9th July, at Pune.
I can't see how that will work in practice. It surely took me more than 2 weeks to get myself into the various groups I am currently in, so actually doing something useful will have to come after that. In any case, that doesn't solve the issue I pointed out.
That said, please don't misunderstand my objection as an objection to anybody participating in the community.
Not at all, your suggestions are important to us And we are trying to be regular with our meetups so that it should not be just these 2 weeks or this event, but a on going process.
My point is that people should be encouraged to participate for the right reasons. That is, join the community to pitch in, learn and grow and not just gain credentials as a speaker, that too on the basis of being employed at the company that is hosting the event.
+1
[3] The organizers are suggested to try reach out to college students (not just via emails or messages, but by physically going down to colleges) since this event can be a good place for new contributors to know how to get started with their contribution as well as meet other existing and experienced community members.
+1. I believe Red Hat has contacts in Cummins College for example. They have been active in the django and/or python community in the past IIRC, so I am sure they will look forward to the event. There are a number of women teachers in MITCOE who I am sure will be interested too. I'm sure there are other colleges we can reach out to.
We have already reached out to django and/or python communities. I request you to please share the contacts for colleges, I tried getting the contacts multiple times but somehow could not get it.
[4] The organizers are also suggested to do more social media posts about the event, so as to create more awareness around this event.
Sure, but my first point stays: please make a bigger effort to reach out to existing women contributors to share their experiences.
I am sure, it will turn out well in form of the videos, I have requested.
[5] The new contributors and speakers can also join the Fedora telegram group, since not all of us are big IRC fans.
/me grumbles about these younglings not getting it...
Siddhesh
On 30 June 2016 at 10:56, Amita Sharma amsharma@redhat.com wrote:
Thanks, I have reached out to the global fedora women contributors for the participation. As time zone is the issue to be live, so I have requested them for the recorded videos.
If remote sessions are OK then the entire country is your proverbial oyster. That is, reach out to past and existing women FOSS contributors across the country (Runa, Sinny, Suparna to name a few that I personally admire) and ask if they could do a remote session even if it were 10-minutes long. The big reason to prefer local speakers is to provide a role model closer home because that makes the story easier to relate to.
The sequence I would go for in in terms of preference would be:
1. Women Fedora Contributors 2. Women FOSS Contributors 3. Any other fallback you prefer (videos of global Fedora/FOSS contributors, RH employees, etc.)
We have already reached out to django and/or python communities. I request you to please share the contacts for colleges, I tried getting the contacts multiple times but somehow could not get it.
I personally don't have contacts in Cummins College, but I know a couple of professors from MITCOE. I'll try to find their contact information (I know I've noted it somewhere, just can't remember where) and introduce them to you. For Cummins I suggest you talk to Rupali or Soni from the RH Pune office.
Siddhesh
On 06/30/2016 11:20 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 30 June 2016 at 10:56, Amita Sharma amsharma@redhat.com wrote:
Thanks, I have reached out to the global fedora women contributors for the participation. As time zone is the issue to be live, so I have requested them for the recorded videos.
If remote sessions are OK then the entire country is your proverbial oyster. That is, reach out to past and existing women FOSS contributors across the country (Runa, Sinny, Suparna to name a few that I personally admire) and ask if they could do a remote session even if it were 10-minutes long. The big reason to prefer local speakers is to provide a role model closer home because that makes the story easier to relate to.
The sequence I would go for in in terms of preference would be:
- Women Fedora Contributors
- Women FOSS Contributors
- Any other fallback you prefer (videos of global Fedora/FOSS
contributors, RH employees, etc.)
Okay, will work on this.
We have already reached out to django and/or python communities. I request you to please share the contacts for colleges, I tried getting the contacts multiple times but somehow could not get it.
I personally don't have contacts in Cummins College, but I know a couple of professors from MITCOE. I'll try to find their contact information (I know I've noted it somewhere, just can't remember where) and introduce them to you. For Cummins I suggest you talk to Rupali or Soni from the RH Pune office.
Sure, thanks Siddhesh.
Regards, Amita
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