The [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail list was created in August 2005; the initial charter is at http://wiki.apache.org/Women/InitialCharter .
We now want to take it to the next step and create a formal committee (see the forwarded post below). Since the women@ list isn't well publicized, I'd like to get the word out that it exists, so feel free to forward this to other Apache lists. Also, we're looking for more volunteers, so if this seems like a fish you'd like to fry [1], you'd be most welcome. regards, -jean [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-women/200607.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [PROPOSAL] Move women@ to a project or committee Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:34:21 -0700 From: Jean T. Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My post earlier this week [1] was buried in a response to an older thread, so I'm reviving it with its very own subject. This post summarizes the main points and includes feedback from earlier in the week. women@ should become a project or committee (specific structure to be determined). Some reasons include: 1) women@ needs a stable web site with content controlled by committers who are granted karma to a women svn repo. Others, including other Apache committers, are welcome to submit patches, which would be committed after review. 2) The wiki, which already exists, should be a secondary source of information, not the primary. 3) In addition to the public women@ mail list, a private list should be created to ensure that any sensitive issues have a place to be handled. Every project needs volunteers who commit to manage it: - update the web site - review and commit patches submitted by others - respond to questions posted to the list - vote in more committers to the project - provide periodic status reports I had originally thought in terms of women@ moving under the PRC, but discussions earlier in the week suggested that some kind of committee would be a more likely fit. In any event, the Board could determine the best structure after we have assembled enough volunteers to approach them with a proposal. And that's what we need right now: volunteers. So far we have two: - Jean Anderson [1] - Noirin Plunkett [2] Any other volunteers? regards, -jean [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-women/200607.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [2] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-women/200607.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]