[16:08] <maco> http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/04/21/people-behind-debian-meike-reichle-member-of-debian-women/
[17:02] <pleia2> great article :)
[20:06] <maco> one hour
[20:46] <JanC> 15 minutes  ☺
[20:59] <maco> pleia2: you running the show?
[20:59] <pleia2> yep
[21:00] <pleia2> #startmeeting
[21:00] <Mootbot-UK> Meeting started at 20:00. The chair is pleia2.
[21:00] <Mootbot-UK> Commands Available: [TOPIC], [PROGRESS REPORT], [IDEA], [ACTION], [AGREED], [LINK], [VOTE]
[21:00] <pleia2> [LINK] http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/Agenda
[21:00] <Mootbot-UK> LINK received:  http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/Agenda
[21:01] <pleia2> that's the agenda for the meeting, who all is here?
[21:01] <jledbetter> o/
[21:01] <Pendulum> o/
[21:02] <pleia2> ok, so my plan for this meeting is to quickly review all our natty blueprints to see where we are, and then to do a little discussion about our plans for the oneiric cycle
[21:02] <maco> oh im here too o/
[21:02] <pleia2> [TOPIC] Ubuntu Women UDS-N Goals blueprint
[21:02] <Mootbot-UK> New Topic:  Ubuntu Women UDS-N Goals blueprint
[21:02] <pleia2> [LINK] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu-women.org/+spec/ubuntutheproject-community-n-ubuntu-women-project-goals
[21:02] <Mootbot-UK> LINK received:  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu-women.org/+spec/ubuntutheproject-community-n-ubuntu-women-project-goals
[21:02] <pleia2> so, as far as this specific blueprint we had to defer the blogging and contest stuff because they moved ada lovelace day
[21:03] <pleia2> in it's place we ended up doing work on increasing UDS diversity, so I don't really see this as a failure, we kept busy :)
[21:03] <pleia2> [alanbell/lyz] work to get new wiki theme approved and into the wiki: INPROGRESS
[21:03] <AlanBell> o/
[21:04] <pleia2> elky wanted to submit some patches, but she's in the middle of a big move so it's been difficult
[21:04] <pleia2> http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/NewWikiTheme has details if you want to check out the new theme though :)
[21:04] <Mootbot-UK> LINK received:  http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/NewWikiTheme has details if you want to check out the new theme though :)
[21:05] <pleia2> that's pretty much it for this blueprint, comments?
[21:05] <maco> looks nice
[21:05] <pleia2> [TOPIC] Ubuntu Women Mentoring Partnerships blueprint
[21:05] <Mootbot-UK> New Topic:  Ubuntu Women Mentoring Partnerships blueprint
[21:06] <pleia2> [LINK] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu-women.org/+spec/ubuntutheproject-community-n-ubuntu-women-mentor-partnerships
[21:06] <Mootbot-UK> LINK received:  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu-women.org/+spec/ubuntutheproject-community-n-ubuntu-women-mentor-partnerships
[21:06] <pleia2> we got most of this done :)
[21:06] <pleia2> the last one was sorta waiting on the beginners team changing their mentoring structure a bit, so it'll probably be bumped to next cycle
[21:07] <pleia2> comments? questions?
[21:07] <jledbetter> pleia2, Changing?
[21:07] <pleia2> jledbetter: this cycle they changed names of things, now have mentors and masters
[21:08] <pleia2> and want to change names further
[21:08] <pleia2> I'm sorta waiting until things stabilize
[21:08] <jledbetter> Yeah, true.
[21:08] <AlanBell> I have a lovely project for a new developer
[21:09] <pleia2> AlanBell: maybe post the opportunity to the list?
[21:09] <pleia2> I think we've done a poor job reaching out to folks who say "I'm a programmer, what can I do to help?"
[21:09] <AlanBell> yeah, would like to discuss after the meeting
[21:09] <pleia2> mostly I point them at bug triage and app developer week stuff, but it's not very targeted :\
[21:10] <jledbetter> Right.
[21:10] <pleia2> but let's move on to Oneiric stuff, since we can pretty much say Natty is done (release is next week :))
[21:10] <pleia2> [TOPIC] Oneiric Blueprint
[21:10] <Mootbot-UK> New Topic:  Oneiric Blueprint
[21:10] <pleia2> [LINK] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu-women.org/+spec/community-o-ubuntu-women-project-goals
[21:10] <Mootbot-UK> LINK received:  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu-women.org/+spec/community-o-ubuntu-women-project-goals
[21:11] <pleia2> we'll be having a session at UDS (May 9-13, uds.ubuntu.com) which can be attended remotely
[21:12] <pleia2> so on my short list for this blueprint: leadership elections (our terms in LP expire 2010-08-11), finish website/wiki work, continue mentoring, ada lovelace blogging/contest that we deferred
[21:12] <Pendulum> I think that's a fair bit of work for one cycle :P
[21:13] <pleia2> yeah, we'll have to define exactly what we need to do for each of these
[21:13] <pleia2> mentoring is the huge one, so we need specific tasks again
[21:13] <pleia2> http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Mentoring describes our current process
[21:13] <Mootbot-UK> LINK received:  http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Mentoring describes our current process
[21:14] <pleia2> (not much of a process)
[21:14] <pleia2> so I'm thinking we can encourage each other to do things like AlanBell's having a new develop project he can give someone, and in general being better about targeted "stuff to do"
[21:16] <pleia2> not sure what else :)
[21:17] <pleia2> even if they don't end up on the blueprint for this cycle, anyone else have ideas of what we should be doing as a project?
[21:17] <pleia2> things you've seen other diversity projects do? ways that we can improve current things we do?
[21:17] <maco> you know the photos we have of the person in each interview?
[21:18] <Cheri703-mobile> I think reaching out to locos might be good
[21:18] <maco> i think itd be neat to have a collage made up of those on the website
[21:18] <pleia2> maco: good idea
[21:18] <jledbetter> maco, Neat
[21:18] <pleia2> Cheri703-mobile: to offer them help to increase the number of women?
[21:18] <maco> i'd like to know how to do that!
[21:18] <maco> i'm the only woman in my LoCo
[21:19] <Cheri703-mobile> Yeah, or even helping them know there IS uw
[21:19] <Cheri703-mobile> So the women they do have can be aware
[21:19] <maco> i'm probably not going to Ohio LinuxFest this year because the folk festival where the LoCo always sets up a booth is that weekend, and women don't visit the booth if it's *all men*  (the guys noticed this the first year they had me there)
[21:20] <pleia2> maco: wow, interesting
[21:21] <pleia2> Cheri703-mobile: maybe we can put together some kind of document that discusses some of the ways to attract a more diverse crowd?
[21:21] <pleia2> I wrote an article in full circle magazine a couple years back, the how-to encourage women in linux document has some goodies
[21:21] <Cheri703-mobile> Even just helping to point out stuff like that, not just helping increase female participation, but encouraging the ones they have
[21:22] <maco> pleia2: when i went to lunch, they noticed the sudden demographic change in visitors
[21:22] <Cheri703-mobile> Yeah jledbetter
[21:23] <maco> our LoCo has a document we put on the table with info for women that has blurbs and URLs for UW, LinuxChix, DrupalChix, etc.
[21:23] <maco> i'll try to get a copy of it from kjcole
[21:23] <pleia2> we often have the little UW business cards or fliers from http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Resources at events
[21:24] <Cheri703-mobile> I will be using those next weekend, we are having a loco event
[21:24] <pleia2> yay :)
[21:24] <pleia2> I actually really like creating a page on our wiki for this stuff that we can show our loco teams as a blueprint item
[21:25] <Cheri703-mobile> Possibly also putting some of that on spread ubuntu
[21:25] <pleia2> oh yes, good idea!
[21:26] <Cheri703-mobile> I didn't know about the uw page, but skim spread ubuntu on occasion
[21:26]  * pleia2 nods
[21:29] <pleia2> ok, good, we have a nice list now
[21:29] <pleia2> I think I'll touch base with MichelleQ regarding mentoring, she took the lead here at the last UDS but she's gotten quite busy
[21:30] <pleia2> see what ideas she has for goals in the next cycle and whether she can help
[21:30] <jledbetter> And how we can, especially BT
[21:31] <pleia2> yeah, improving partnerships with other teams should be a priority
[21:31] <Cheri703-mobile> can someone email me all of the links from this meeting?
[21:31] <maco> Cheri703-mobile: i think the logs should be sent to the mailing list later...
[21:31] <pleia2> yeah, the logs with all the links will be posted on the wiki
[21:32] <maco> or a link to them, at least
[21:32] <pleia2> I can email them to you directly though, Mootbot-UK gives me a big ole PM log
[21:32] <pleia2> oh, and this is our last meeting until UDS
[21:32] <Cheri703-mobile> Ok, that'd be great
[21:33] <pleia2> hypatia, Cheri703 and I will be there in person :)
[21:33] <pleia2> and others
[21:33] <maco> pleia2: can i talk stats now?
[21:34]  * Cheri703-mobile is super excited
[21:34] <pleia2> we'll post remote participation details and timing for everything before the session
[21:34] <pleia2> [TOPIC] Developer Statistics
[21:34] <Mootbot-UK> New Topic:  Developer Statistics
[21:34] <pleia2> maco: all yours!
[21:35] <maco> Today I used AlanBell's team crawling script and found that there are 168 members of ~ubuntu-dev.  Of those, 7 are women, making 4.2%.  This is pretty close to our 5% member stat, so that points to fairly equal participation in development versus other things
[21:36] <maco> The rate of women joining ~ubuntu-dev has also been increasing. In 2007, there was one woman added.  Another in 2008, 2 in 2009, and 3 last year
[21:36] <pleia2> yay!
[21:37] <maco> (Though I can say that at the moment, there are no women with their names up for application, at least through the DMB https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeveloperMembershipBoard/Agenda )
[21:37]  * valorie is late, but I'm here
[21:38] <pleia2> it's nice to see us making progress anyway
[21:38] <pleia2> thanks for digging this up, maco :)
[21:39] <valorie> that's awesome, maco
[21:39] <maco> Oh! And next Wednesday is the 1 year anniversary for Leann and Ara joining ~ubuntu-dev
[21:39] <pleia2> nice :D
[21:39] <AlanBell> will there be cake?
[21:40] <jledbetter> heh
[21:42] <hypatia> hey sorry i'm late
[21:42] <pleia2> [TOPIC] Announcements, other misc
[21:42] <Mootbot-UK> New Topic:  Announcements, other misc
[21:42] <pleia2> anything else before we wrap up?
[21:42]  * hypatia reads backscroll super quick
[21:42] <pleia2> from yesterday:
[21:42] <pleia2> 14:06:26 < akgraner> Hey all (I'll send this to the mailing list as well) Who wants to lead a session for Ubuntu Open Week?
[21:42] <pleia2> 14:06:53 < akgraner> something for non-developer users to help them understand the ins and outs of Ubuntu :-)
[21:42] <pleia2> 14:21:38 < akgraner> if you don't want to lead a session are there any sessions you would like to attend - topic suggestions welcome...then I can track people down :-)
[21:43] <hypatia> when is open week?
[21:44] <pleia2> right before UDS, Mon 2 May - Fri 6 May
[21:44] <pleia2> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek
[21:44] <hypatia> im moving that week :(
[21:44] <jledbetter> Insanely busy or I would
[21:44] <hypatia> otherwise id offer to do a security session
[21:45] <jledbetter> hypatia, Good idea
[21:45] <hypatia> how often is OW?
[21:45] <pleia2> we have done Ubuntu Women sessions at these in the past
[21:45] <pleia2> hypatia: twice a year
[21:45] <hypatia> cool
[21:46] <pleia2> our last UW session was a year ago, but I think the project is pretty well-established and accepted now, even at that one I felt we were preaching to a choir :)
[21:46] <maco> "women" is now the biggest tag in my blog's tag cloud
[21:46] <hypatia> :)
[21:47] <pleia2> ok, anything else?
[21:50] <pleia2> alright, thanks everyone :)
[21:50] <pleia2> #endmeeting
[21:50] <Mootbot-UK> Meeting finished at 20:50.
[21:50]  * pleia2 heads off to lunch
[21:51]  * hypatia heads off to a nap