[Kde-women] Input for talk?

Sat Sep 15 02:42:34 UTC 2012

Well Claudia,

I talked to my advisor, who happens to be the Computer Department
Chair, and the advisor for the computer club.  He didn't see the need
for a women in STEM group since there was a computer club.  The few
programming instructors I talked to (because there is only like 3
total in the school) didn't have any interest in becoming an advisor.
I didn't ask anyone in the Science or Math departments as I'm not a
student in any of those programs and didn't know whom to approach.
The school didn't like the idea of it as it wasn't co-ed, and yet they
have a group for black men.  This is my last semester and then
hopefully I'll get accepted to a halfway decent school to continue my
education.

I also put up some flyers and held a couple interest meetings where I
was the only one that showed up.  And yet, in my basic electronic
class (AC/DC circuits) the 2 other women come to me to help them as I
obviously know what I'm doing.

As for a LUG there isn't one in town, I don't think there is one in
the entire state!  In my linux class (which I couldn't test out of so
I have to take it), no one else likes or uses linux including the
instructor, and she doesn't like kde and is like don't use it use
gnome!  Then again she is a mac person.

I think its the fact that in america few want to help until they need help.

Sara

On 14/09/2012, Claudia Rauch <rauch at kde.org> wrote:
> On 14 September 2012 02:00,  <the.lady.phoenix at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Yeah, I can imagine that this isn't easy. Here in Berlin there quite a
> big start-up scene and women in tech is kind of a hype topic right now
> ;).
>
> How did you promote you group? Did you reach out to the local LUG (if
> there is one) or did you talk to your teachers? Maybe they can share
> this?
>
>
>> 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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