[Kde-women] Input for talk?

[the.lady.phoenix at gmail.com]

well I know I'd be interested in hearing about how to make a women in
stem (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) group in a town
or at a school.  I've not had any success in getting one started but
seeing as out of the 18 credits I'm taking this semester in over half
I'm the only woman (3 classes), the the other 2 have a grand total of
3 other women (2 and 1).  So it might be that there aren't enough
bodies to make my idea work where I am.

Sara

On 13/09/2012, Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Claudia Rauch <rauch at kde.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm hosting a short session at http://geekgirlmeetup.de/ on September
>> 15th. I will recycle my talk from FSCONS last year, on how to organize
>> and run successful sprints [1], but since I assume that not everyone
>> in the audience will be a developer or contributor to a FLOSS project,
>> I want to put a bit of a different twist to the talk - something like
>> "why should you organise a meeting/sprint" and how you can pull it off
>> easily.
>>
>> Do any of you have some input for this? Maybe also something
>> especially from a female perspective?
>
> Hey :)
>
> Here's a few things that come to my mind right now:
> * you get to know people
> * people get to know you
> * it's a task that developers are usually thrilled about someone else
> taking it -> they will love you
> * you learn a lot about organizing and planning
> * it's one way to give back to Free Software in an essential way
> without writing code
> * you get to show your city/country to a bunch of awesome people from
> abroad
> * language skills++
> * people skills++
>
> Cheers
> Lydia
>
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