2018-04-10 11:47 GMT-03:00 imacat <ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw>: > Hi. This is imacat from Taiwan. Sorry that I did not know you were > discussing here. I was overwhelmed by the mails from the upcoming > WikiCon 2018. > > Dan (Jidanni) originally asked me to host a panel about transgender. > But since I was not in the local transgender rights movement, but in > the local women's movement in FOSS, we agree to change it to a panel > about gender. > > So this will be a panel about gender, not transgender. >
Miriam sent a message and I believe it can be helpful to use her suggestions to organize the panel. > > I hosted a panel about gender and diversity in FOSS in one of the > largest FOSS conference in Asia, COSCUP 2017. You may refer to here: > > (Chinese) > https://coscup.org/2017/#/schedule/day2/2021035 > https://youtu.be/nNgPfm6rY2U > > For this DebConf18 panel: I only have a few rough ideas in the > current phase. The diversity problem is mainly about women, but I would > always like to put more on the table, to make more subgroups and issues > "visible". I guess it may be a good chance to bring in the transgender > issue this time. > > Maybe you can invite people that will attend DebConf. If you want to prepare a list of questions like Miriam said we can help you too. I will not attend DebConf, but I can help if you think it's necessary. I have been attending some conferences about gender, and we can discuss about some ideas for the panel. > There is only one speaker confirmed. She is one of major activists > in the local transgender rights movement. She is using Ubuntu. I plan > to invite other organizers of local women communities. As I said above, > the main topic is still women, but there need to be more than women. > My suggestion is looking for people that work for diversity in free software projects, it will help you find more people. > The subject of the panel is still undecided yet. > > This is the status so far. Any ideas are welcome. > > Miriam Ruiz on 2018/04/05 15:49 said: > > It might be a good starting point to figure out what we might want to > > talk about, in the context of this forum, regarding the extensive area > > of "gender", and what are the goals that we want to pursue. Gender is > > a very extensive concept that has broad effects in all the aspects of > > our lifes: social, personal, identity, expressive, behavioral, etc. > > > > I suppose that, because of the type of event and due to the context of > > this thread, the idea might probably be to go a bit deeper into the > > guidelines defined in the Diversity Statement, in particular regarding > > the gender axis. That is indeed something that I would think as very > > positive, but that it may be necessary to elaborate the idea a bit > > more, to be able to give it a narrative thread. It might also be, on > > the other hand, that we might want to talk about how to use the > > current existing diversity (and in particular the gender diversity) to > > help improve the developing processes, the teams or the results. > > > > The analysis of the reasons that might explain why there is still a > > gap between men and women in the development of technology and free > > software is undoubtedly within the scope of gender, and it is usually > > the main focus when we talk about gender in Free Software. In addition > > to this, there is the analysis of stereotypes and reference behaviors > > associated with gender, and explicitly talking about that that would > > allow some debating about new masculinities, new femininities and > > androgyny. It is obvious that the issue of gender identity is also > > over the table, as well as gender expression (clothing, accessories, > > care and external appearance), etc. All this factors have a certain > > importance within the internal and external relationships both between > > working groups and when talking about Debian as a whole. > > > > Therefore, before starting to prepare a list of questions, it might be > > a good idea to outline a small non-exhaustive list of elements that > > might be used to create some scaffolding and, therefore, can make it > > easier than other people contribute ideas, questions and suggestions. > > > > Greetings, > > Miry > > > > 2018-04-05 3:02 GMT+02:00 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jida...@jidanni.org>: > >> OK I eliminated all the questions. > >> > >> Please help me write proper questions. > >> > > > > -- > Best regards, > imacat ^_*' <ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw> > PGP Key http://www.imacat.idv.tw/me/pgpkey.asc > > <<Woman's Voice>> News: http://www.wov.idv.tw/ > Tavern IMACAT's http://www.imacat.idv.tw/ > Woman in FOSS in Taiwan http://www.wofoss.org/ > OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/ > EducOO/OOo4Kids Taiwan http://www.educoo.tw/ > Greenfoot Taiwan http://greenfoot.westart.tw/ > > -- Adriana C. da Costa http://www.mulheres.eti.br
