[Kde-women] Input for talk?

[Claudia Rauch]

On 15 September 2012 04:42,  <the.lady.phoenix at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Wow, this must be frustrating... and the reaction of your teacher
clearly show why there is a need for a women's group. I think it's
great that you tried to organize something.

> 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 hope you get the chance to go to a Linuxfest in your area some time.
Since I'm not based in the US, I can't really offer any suggestions.
But maybe Valorie, who should be on this list, too, can offer some
advice.

> 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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