Hi folks -- I thought this Grrltalk post would be most appropriate to this list. Mackenzie Morgan's study is very complete.
Valorie ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carla Schroder <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:18 AM Subject: [Grrltalk] Finding more women to speak at Ohio LinuxFest: success! To: [email protected] "Some conference organisers will say "we didn't get any submissions from women" to explain the lack of women on their stages. As of two years ago, the Ohio LinuxFest was in that category. With a little outreach effort, and embracing diversity as a core value, the Ohio LinuxFest has successfully recruited more women to share their experience at OLF. How'd we do? While last year only five of the speakers at Ohio LinuxFest were women, out of a total of 31, this year 14 of the 38 speakers are women. That's a third of the conference speaking slots! One of the two keynoters is a woman. There were 107 talk proposals for the 27 general speaking slots. Before anyone tries to suggest that we simply took them all, it should be noted that a full 48% of the proposals for talks categorised as not assuming high levels of prior knowledge (making them suitable for the most attendees) were from women. We believe that much of this success is attributed to community outreach..." http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2010/09/finding-more-women-to-speak-at-ohio.html -- ====================== check out my books! Linux Cookbook http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006402/ Linux Networking Cookbook http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102487/ ====================== _______________________________________________ Grrltalk mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.linuxchix.org/mailman/listinfo/grrltalk _______________________________________________ Fest-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.peakserv.com/mailman/listinfo/fest-list
