On 5/21/2016 2:50 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote:
On 21 05 2016, at 11:19, Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org>
wrote:
Patricia Shanahan wrote on 5/21/16 9:41 AM:
In connection with the "Encouraging More Women into Participate
in Apache Projects?" I am going to try to talk to some student
groups, especially a WIC chapter, about Apache.
Part of the presentation will be directly related to why women do
fine in ASF, including my personal experiences. That I can and
should write myself.
I also need a general introduction to ASF, and why a young
programmer should consider getting involved in it. I'm sure that
has already been written. Any suggestions for presentations I
could adopt and adapt?
Patricia
ComDev has a speaker resources page. I urge everyone who has a
relevant slide deck or the like to add it there:
http://community.apache.org/speakers/slides.html
Separately, if folks are also interested in how the internals of
the Foundation are governed, we've got that too:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/governance/
These are good slides. Thanks for the reminder, Shane.
I'd also suggest that, as I've learned ("from personal experience":
anecdotal and specific but maybe useful), I was able to engage and
involve more people (regardless of subject position [translated:
however they define themselves or are defined as selves by others])
by being concrete and specific regarding projects. ASF as a general
idea is great, but it's about doing, and that means, at least for me
and for many others, doing in particular projects. In practice, this
means it might help (read: probably will, but not necessarily)
focusing on those projects you think cool and (or) know. Also helps
to bring out the stalwarts of those who can speak to the virtues and
excitements of their projects. And Apache has a lot of those and
that's to its credit.
Good points. Unfortunately, the projects in which I'm currently active
are not very beginner-friendly.
Could people suggest a few projects that would benefit from, and be able
to use, relatively inexperienced programmers right now?
Patricia
