[17:49] <pleia2> Pendulum, AlanBell, akgraner - any comments on the UDS/Sponsorship page I sent over last week? meeting is in an hourish
[17:52] <Pendulum> it looked good to me
[17:55]  * AlanBell can't find the link
[17:56] <AlanBell> http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/UDS
[17:57] <pleia2> the email subject is "UDS Application Review Page"
[17:57] <pleia2> sent to alanbell@ubuntu.com
[17:58] <AlanBell> got it
[17:58]  * AlanBell can't spell Elizabeth
[17:58] <maco> AlanBell: used an s?
[17:59] <AlanBell> maco: no idea what I did, but I couldn't find it
[17:59] <AlanBell> I did read it at the time
[18:01] <AlanBell> list is the same order when sorted by surname or firstname
[18:04] <AlanBell> pleia2: all looks fine to me
[18:58] <jono> pleia2, akgraner are you able to join the meeting in a few mins?
[18:59] <pleia2> I'll do my best, work is very busy today
[19:01] <jono> pleia2, np
[19:01] <jono> ok, I think we are about ready
[19:01] <jono> who is here for the meeting?
[19:01] <AlanBell> o/
[19:01] <Pendulum> o/
[19:02] <AlanBell> jono: feel free to use the bot #startmeeting
[19:02] <jono> akgraner, you here?
[19:02] <AlanBell> it does minutes
[19:02] <jono> AlanBell, I should learn how to use it :-)
[19:02] <jono> I am old school when it comes to meeting
[19:02] <jono> s
[19:02] <jono> AlanBell, can you do that for me?
[19:02] <AlanBell> #startmeeting
[19:02] <Mootbot-UK> Meeting started at 19:02. The chair is AlanBell.
[19:02] <Mootbot-UK> Commands Available: [TOPIC], [PROGRESS REPORT], [IDEA], [ACTION], [AGREED], [LINK], [VOTE]
[19:02] <jono> thanks AlanBell
[19:02] <AlanBell> is there an agenda jono?
[19:02] <jono> yes, let me grab it
[19:03] <jono> I want to first review previous actions
[19:03] <jono> and then discuss an outreach campaign
[19:03] <jono> I am going to need input from pleia2 and akgraner though and I am not sure if they are able to attend much
[19:03] <AlanBell> [topic] Review of actions from previous meeting
[19:03] <Mootbot-UK> New Topic:  Review of actions from previous meeting
[19:03] <jono> so the actions:
[19:03] <jono>  * pleia2 and akgraner to flesh out mentoring process for reviewing sponsorship applications.
[19:04] <jono> pleia2, did you manage to get this finalized?
[19:04] <pleia2> I put together http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/UDS/Sponsorship and sent it for review, AlanBell and Pendulum said it looked good
[19:04] <pleia2> I figure we just Include it on UDS when we're ready
[19:05] <jono> pleia2, awesome, so people will basically one of those folks?
[19:05] <pleia2> for now we ask them to email all of us
[19:05] <jono> cool
[19:05] <jono> it looks good to me
[19:05] <jono> pleia2, would you be happy to add that?
[19:06] <pleia2> sure
[19:06] <jono> thanks!
[19:06] <jono> ok, next:
[19:06] <jono>  * jono to investigate reducing the 1000 char limit for sponsorship applications in summit.ubuntu.com.
[19:06] <IdleOne> increasing*
[19:06] <jono> oops, yes
[19:07] <jono> I passed this onto jcastro who filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/summit/+bug/718794 and it is now fixed
[19:07] <ubot4> Launchpad bug 718794 in summit "Sponsorship field character limit needs to be increased (affects: 1) (heat: 19)" [Undecided,Fix released]
[19:07] <jono> it is expanded to 3000 chars
[19:07] <jono> next:
[19:07] <jono> * jono to put together first cut of landing page for outreach campaign.
[19:07] <jono> I put together http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/UDS
[19:08] <jono> added some content and sent it to the list for review
[19:08] <jono> I didn't really get any feedback - do you folks think it looks OK?>
[19:08] <AlanBell> yes
[19:08] <IdleOne> looks good to me
[19:08] <jono> pleia2, are you happy with that page?
[19:08] <pleia2> yeah it's good
[19:09] <jono> ok cool
[19:09] <jono> so an update on the sponsorship:
[19:09] <AlanBell> there are a couple of TODO bits on the page obviously
[19:10] <jono> things are held back a little as ISD has developed a new web form to ease data collection for sponsors and canonical staff (for travel arrangements) and we are trying to get them to consolidate the LP form and this new form into one form - if this doesn't get resolved this week I will open sponsorship on Monday anyway
[19:10] <jono> I would like to open sponsorship and launch this campaign on Monday if possible
[19:11] <jono> does that sound good to you folks?
[19:11] <pleia2> that'd be great
[19:11] <AlanBell> yup
[19:11] <jono> awesome
[19:11] <jono> ok
[19:11] <jono> [topic] Planning Outreach
[19:12] <AlanBell> [topic] Planning Outreach
[19:12] <Mootbot-UK> New Topic:  Planning Outreach
[19:12] <jono> what I would like to discuss is putting together an outreach plan for next week
[19:12] <jono> so we can raise the awareness of the diversity campaign and encourage more women to apply for sponsorship
[19:12] <jono> I have a few notes from the last meeting that we can use to plan
[19:13] <jono> pleia2 to announce it on ubuntu-women, cross-post to ubuntu-news and blog about it
[19:13] <jono> pleia2, would you be happy to do this on Monday?
[19:13] <pleia2> might have to wait until evening PST, but I'll do it Monday :)
[19:13] <jono> perfect!
[19:13] <jono> pleia2, I will blog that day too
[19:14] <jono> jledbetter to blog, tweet/dent, contact certain women he thinks would be great candidates
[19:14] <jono> jledbetter, are you here?
[19:14] <jledbetter> Yes
[19:15] <pleia2> s/he/she
[19:15] <jono> yeah, that was a type
[19:15] <jono> typo
[19:15]  * AlanBell has to pop out, I will end the meeting and do the minutes when I get back
[19:15] <pleia2> thanks Aiween
[19:15] <pleia2> err, AlanBell
[19:15] <jono> AlanBell, before you run
[19:15] <jono> could you blog on Wed?
[19:15] <jono> jledbetter, would you be happy to blog and promote on the Tues?
[19:16] <AlanBell> Pendulum: that could be put on the accessibility blog?
[19:16] <jledbetter> jono, Sure.
[19:16] <jono> jledbetter, :-)
[19:16] <Pendulum> AlanBell: dunno if we can since this as far as I can tell is really women-specific
[19:16] <jono> AlanBell, wed ok for you?
[19:17] <jono> Pendulum, we can promote on the a11y blog about encourage more impaired folks along to UDS
[19:18] <Pendulum> jono: I think you need to meet with the a11y team first, but I would like to do that at some point (it's on my agenda for our call :) )
[19:18] <jono> Pendulum, would you be happy to blog on the Wed on your own blog about the Ubuntu Women campaign?
[19:18] <jono> Pendulum, absolutely
[19:18] <jono> Pendulum, maybe the following week?
[19:18] <Pendulum> jono: yep, I can blog wednesday on my blog :)
[19:18] <jono> thanks Pendulum! :-)
[19:18] <jono> I will also ask mdz to blog next week
[19:19] <jono> maco, would you be happy to blog about this on Thursday next week?
[19:19] <maco> what am i supposed to say?
[19:20] <maco> i mean, on the blog
[19:20] <jono> maco, you can see some of the blog entries for ideas - basically that we are working hard to make UDS a really diverse event, and encouraging women to apply for sponsorship to attend
[19:20] <jono> and pointing to the Ubuntu Women UDS page
[19:20] <jono> to basically raise visibility
[19:22] <jono> pleia2, Pendulum, maco, jledbetter, akgraner on that note, I personally think that it might be worthwhile to personally reach out to other women in Ubuntu Women and suggest that they apply - would you be happy to help with this?
[19:22] <jono> outreach is useful, but I don't think it is the only useful method of raising awareness
[19:23] <jledbetter> Right. Have names in my head already. Should we coordinate or just go for it?
[19:23] <Pendulum> I don't know about the others, but I've already told some women that they should apply so I suspect that's less something you need as a pledge and more something we're all doing already
[19:23] <jono> awesome
[19:24] <jono> I don't think it needs to be hugely coordinated, just something that is on our minds
[19:24] <jono> great stuff :-)
[19:24] <jledbetter> Sounds good.
[19:24] <jono> so I need to hear back from stuartm to confirm the sponsorship form will be ready so we can open up on Monday, but all being well, we should be good to go
[19:24] <maco> jono: k i guess i can blog it. i need to make a technical post first. the technical to social post ratio on my blog lately has been whacked :-/
[19:24] <jono> maco, no worries :-)
[19:25] <jono> it doesn't have to be this week, next would be cool too :-)
[19:25] <jono> I am just conscious to keep the message in everyone's minds
[19:25] <jono> any other ideas and suggestions on the topic of Diversity and UDS and encouraging more women to apply and participate?
[19:25] <jledbetter> Odd question since I'm in the midst of organizing something geared toward women but is there daycare on site?
[19:26] <jono> jledbetter, currently, no, I could investigate to see if this is an option
[19:26] <maco> jledbetter: i have seen a baby at UDS before
[19:26] <jono> I will check and see what the options are
[19:26] <jledbetter> I'm curious to see if it'd make a difference.
[19:26] <maco> uds dallas...the baby was the only person younger than me
[19:26] <jledbetter> maco, Awesome :)
[19:27] <jono> I will also talk to some press about the UDS Diversity drive
[19:27] <jono> I might suggest the journos talk to pleia2 - would you happy with that pleia2?
[19:27] <pleia2> http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Ubuntu-Increasing-Its-Diversity was published last week
[19:27] <Mootbot-UK> LINK received:  http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Ubuntu-Increasing-Its-Diversity was published last week
[19:27] <jono> pleia2, yeah :-)
[19:27] <pleia2> (thanks to maco and valorie for posting some helpful comments :))
[19:28] <jono> pleia2, would you be happy to provide interview content if a journo needs it?
[19:28] <pleia2> jono: and yes, that's fine
[19:28] <jono> awesome :-)
[19:28] <maco> jono: when doing so, could you *please* mention that there's meetings with the a11y team being scheduled too? the comments on that post make me :( and i think pointing out that we DO recognise there's more to diversity than women would help head those off
[19:28] <jono> maco, absolutely
[19:28] <jono> Pendulum and I are going to schedule a meeting on that topic
[19:28] <jono> we have our own meeting today
[19:29] <jono> part of my six hours of meetings today :P
[19:29] <jono> I am going to see if I can get Bruce Byfield, SJVN, and Zonker on board to write something up about this
[19:29] <jono> well, that is everything I had on my list - anything else to discuss, or should we wrap?
[19:30] <jono> ok, I think we are done then :-)
[19:31] <jono> here are the actions I noted:
[19:31] <jono>  * Outreach plan for next week
[19:31] <jono>   * Monday:
[19:31] <jono>    * pleia2 to announce it on ubuntu-women, cross-post to ubuntu-news and blog about it
[19:31] <jono>    * jono to blog and post on the Ubuntu Facebook pages.
[19:31] <jono>   * Tuesday:
[19:31] <jono>    * jledbetter to blog, tweet/dent, contact certain women she thinks would be great candidates
[19:31] <jono>   * Wednesday:
[19:31] <jono>    * Pendulum to blog
[19:31] <jono>  * jono to check if we can provide daycare at UDS.
[19:31] <jono>  * jono to talk to press to ensure some visibility on the topic - pleia2 happy to do interviews.
[19:31] <jono> :-)
[19:31] <jledbetter> Thank you for the right bit ;)
[19:32]  * AlanBell returns
[19:32] <jono> jledbetter, :-)
[19:32] <jono> thanks everyone!
[19:32] <jono> #endmeeting
[19:32] <AlanBell> #endmeeting
[19:32] <Mootbot-UK> Meeting finished at 19:32.
[19:33] <jono> I will send the actions to the mailing list so others can see them
[19:33] <jono> thanks, everyone!
[19:34] <jledbetter> Thank you, jono :)
[19:34] <jono> :-)
[19:35] <AlanBell> jono: http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/20110217
[19:41] <pleia2> hypatia: were you able to put together some plans for an UW get together at SCaLE?
[19:42] <pleia2> I've sorta been keeping my saturday evening open just in case, but it's getting difficult :)
[19:43] <AlanBell> Pendulum: for the accessibility blog I was just thinking of talking about the sponsorship process and not making it about women at all in particular
[20:12] <hypatia> pleia2: i've been overwhelmed with school and haven't organized anything :(
[20:12] <hypatia> pleia2: let's use the lunch break on saturday
[20:13] <pleia2> hypatia: ok, sounds good, want me to send a mail to the list about it, or you?
[20:13] <pleia2> I think we'll just instruct people to come by the Ubuntu booth for details, which we'll have there
[20:14] <pleia2> we'll have something figured out by then :)
[20:15] <hypatia> we can just congregate at lunchtime and go eat somewhere
[20:16] <pleia2> ok, maybe just use the ubuntu booth as the congregation spot
[20:16] <hypatia> sounds good
[20:16] <hypatia> what is there nearby food-wise, any ideas?
[20:16] <pleia2> not a clue
[20:16] <pleia2> maybe Gareth has some ideas
[20:16] <hypatia> yeah
[20:17] <pleia2> oh! I'm speaking on Friday morning :)
[20:17] <pleia2> at Ubucon
[20:17] <hypatia> yay :D
[23:35] <JanC> heh, SCaLE has time for a lunch-break?  ;)
[23:40] <elky> LCA does too. We tend to make it possible for speakers to not have to talk over the rustle of food wrappers.
[23:50] <JanC> at FOSDEM there is no official lunch pause, although the main tracks & soem devrooms do have one, sort of
[23:51] <JanC> people are eating all over the day anyway...