Debian Women Assembly minutes

History of this Mini-Debconf:
Marga had the idea, suggested to Monica, and lots of spanish Debian
users helped!

One of the goals was: if you say "woman", more women will come... and
it worked: 147 attendees, 47 women

Feedback from attendees? Not yet :)

Good idea to do it again, but too early to choose a location - let's
decide during next Debconf.

Another point is to improve female speakers participation in regular
DebConfs.

Most speakers came because they have been asked to; the call for
proposals was not very successful, but lots of people were encouraged
to speak for the first time.

Also, if you don't dare holding a talk, you can hold a mini-talk!

Goals of DW is to have more women developers; mentoring program could
help? Maybe collective activities are less scary; maybe having more
female mentors would help. A wiki page to list mentors, and what they
are good at.

Errinn suggests fake BTS setup to practice; fake PTS, to see
what would go wrong, and lots of shy people would dare try and then
learn and somewhen dare "for real".

Maybe re-activate irc tutorials? Maybe have a beginners'packaging
tutorial for next mini-DC?

Other projects have more success than Debian, how do they do? Alina,
from Mozilla, says they are doing it by just engaging other women.

Marga suggests having "debian women working day", where we work
together on irc.

Alina suggests to go reach towards RaspberryPi, which has lots of
young users and contributors, and is based on Debian.

Grant to "bring a newbie", was made more DebConf. Also, Tassia says
she's really happy that 2 speakers from India participated, even if it
was through video. Only adding a statement about wanting diversity in
the call for proposal helps that people from different backgrounds
feel welcome. Also, putting accent on "what do you enjoy in Debian?"
helps finding things to speak about and feeling confident about it.

It's also important to reach to teenage girls, because gender
stereotypes can discourage them at those ages.

Filling the website with more profiles from women, to provide
exemples. Also improve the website page, not only the wiki, and having
it translated in many languages.

It's suggested to have such a conference in India, because there are
lots of women interested in technological issues and they had a very
successful conference lately.

Siri suggests that the graphics should be improved to attract more
women, Tassia says she wants to have more artwork for Jessie release,
and maybe for the first time an artwork done by a woman? :) There is
outreach to do...

During last Debconf, there was the idea to initiate a welcoming team.

To reach teenagers: working with comics, going to schools. Maybe
create tools (comics, slides) that people can translate, and use to go
to different schools.

The idea popped more than once in the past to have a youtube channel,
or rather a MediaGoblin one, with a video each weak, to learn about
Debian -> Laura is interested, she already selected some videos,
linked on the wiki. But maybe some infrastucture is needed: contact
Marga and Laura if you're interested.

OPW had an attendee (that was also in Gsoc), and there is maybe
another one now?

An attendee to OPW says: pay=involvment, so you can't slack off. Also
you're assured to have a mentor. This starts debate, but we're out of
time :)

Tassia prefers the conferences attendance sponsorship, because it
helps create network.