Re: Updating stats, thinking about what to do

2011-04-21 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Francesca Ciceri wrote: > Another one is a better use of communication tools: such as our identi.ca > group [5]. I'm not a very microblogging (or blogging at all) person, but > using it is simple and quite fun, and it's important to reach people who > doesn't real

Re: Updating stats, thinking about what to do

2011-04-21 Thread Erinn Clark
* Helen Faulkner [2011:04:20 21:06 +1000]: > When I was more involved in Debian Women (and, in fact, in Debian), I had the > opinion that keeping Debian Women "moving" as a community was crucial to > attract > and hold the attention of people who might become involved as contributers to > Debian

Re: Updating stats, thinking about what to do

2011-04-21 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: > As an example of where numbers continue to grow: the majority of women > involved with Ubuntu who aren't employed by Canonical are > non-packaging contributors. Event coordination for local teams, > documentation, educational outreach (

Re: Updating stats, thinking about what to do

2011-04-21 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Apart from that, is there > something that we might do to get more women to contribute to Debian? On a personal level my lack of involvement these past couple years has been lack of time. A vast majority of the systems I work on from d

Re: Updating stats, thinking about what to do

2011-04-21 Thread Francesca Ciceri
On Mon 18 Apr 2011 11:36:01, Margarita Manterola wrote: >Last year, we did the IRC training sessions which worked fine, and I >hope that they can happen again this year. Yes, I hope it too. But so far, I've not received many replies to my proposal of a new round of IRC sessions [1], so I let i

Re: Updating stats, thinking about what to do

2011-04-20 Thread Helen Faulkner
On 19/04/11 4:31 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > Maybe we need to recreate the circumstances from the early days of > debian-women? > > - get someone to post unbelievably sexist remarks on debian-devel > - summon our righteous indignation about this behavior, drawing attention >with blogs, etc.

Re: Updating stats, thinking about what to do

2011-04-18 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Just to say, I went ahead and did this.  Mailed everyone in the > uploaders list who is/was not a DD. Some of those, I was pretty sure > that they read the mailing list, but I decided to mail them as well to > avoid anyone being left ov

Re: Updating stats, thinking about what to do

2011-04-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Margarita Manterola wrote: > At some point I had planned to mail all the non-DD first uploaders, to > find out if they have some opinion to share about their experience, > and how things could be improved, but I never did it.  I'm going to do > that now, since I th

Re: Updating stats, thinking about what to do

2011-04-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 02:29:47PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > The increase of female DDs between 2005 and 2008 might be > > statistically related to the increase of first uploads between 2003 > > and 2005 according to the graph. It could also be unrelated, the > > evidence is not very so

Re: Updating stats, thinking about what to do

2011-04-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > We seem to be having a reasonable upwards trend in the number of first > uploads, even though not as good as it was between 2003-2005. Well, it's always going to be upwards, since it's counting first uploads and not active uploaders, that wo

Re: Updating stats, thinking about what to do

2011-04-18 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2011/4/18 Margarita Manterola : > Hey all, Hi! > Today, after chatting a bit with Meike, I took the time to update the > stats and the graph located at > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen/Statistics Thanks! Those stats are really useful to know what's going on. > Since I did it last year, we'v

Updating stats, thinking about what to do

2011-04-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hey all, Today, after chatting a bit with Meike, I took the time to update the stats and the graph located at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen/Statistics Since I did it last year, we've only had 2 new female uploaders, and Francesca has started the process to become a non-uploading DD (which wi