Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-23 Thread Alex Harui
On 5/23/16, 12:18 PM, "tamaonakah...@gmail.com" wrote: Snip... > Members who receive a great deal of generosity during their growth are >likely to pay it forward. I found your entire email (most of which I snipped) to be very informative. Thank you for taking the time to write. -Alex

Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-23 Thread Nick Burch
On Sun, 22 May 2016, Sharan Foga wrote: Is it possible for me to get some space (eg a page etc on the Comdev wiki) to put together these initial ideas and the action points? I'm also thinking of using it to help develop the ideas further and to track the actions in progress. The ComDev wiki i

Re: Custom Software Reports on the Software You Use

2016-05-23 Thread Mark Thomas
On 23/05/2016 20:45, Levi Olmstead wrote: > Hey all, > > I work at G2 Crowd, and we're in the process of rolling out a new feature > that allows business software users to input the software they currently > use and receive a custom report on the pro/cons of their software, and > potential holes i

Custom Software Reports on the Software You Use

2016-05-23 Thread Levi Olmstead
Hey all, I work at G2 Crowd, and we're in the process of rolling out a new feature that allows business software users to input the software they currently use and receive a custom report on the pro/cons of their software, and potential holes in their software stack. The feature is brand new, but

Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-23 Thread tamaonakahara
My personal approach has been to work with pragmatic career-focused women (like myself) because it helps to have some singularity of motivation. I can't solve all of the diversity in tech issues, but I contribute in my own way by running the SF Women's JUG and partnering with organizations such

Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-23 Thread Sharan Foga
Thanks Alex. It all helps :-) Thanks Sharan On 23 May 2016 18:08, "Alex Harui" wrote: > Also, not specific to software: http://leanin.org > > HTH, > -Alex > > On 5/23/16, 6:36 AM, "Patricia Shanahan" wrote: > > >Systers, http://anitaborg.org/get-involved/systers/ > > > >More generally, the Wiki

RE: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-23 Thread Sharan Foga
Thanks Dennis. Email sent. Sharan Sharan, You might find useful resources and contacts via as well. - Dennis > -Original Message- > From: Sharan Foga [mailto:sharan.f...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 03:45 > To: dev@community.apache.org > Subject: Re:

Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-23 Thread Alex Harui
Also, not specific to software: http://leanin.org HTH, -Alex On 5/23/16, 6:36 AM, "Patricia Shanahan" wrote: >Systers, http://anitaborg.org/get-involved/systers/ > >More generally, the Wikipedia article on "Women in Computing", >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing, has some possibl

RE: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Sharan, You might find useful resources and contacts via as well. - Dennis > -Original Message- > From: Sharan Foga [mailto:sharan.f...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 03:45 > To: dev@community.apache.org > Subject: Re: Encouraging More Women to Particip

Re: ombudsman@ (was Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?)

2016-05-23 Thread Joe Schaefer
Personally I'd like to see the CoC addressed as well, particularly in regards to the use of president@ as a potential reporting channel for abuse. The CoC has been in place for a while now, and we have a rough guide from Ross to indicate that president@ as a reporting channel is underused compare

Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-23 Thread Sharan Foga
Thanks Patricia. I'll take a look and contact some more groups. Thanks Sharan On 23/05/16 15:36, Patricia Shanahan wrote: Systers, http://anitaborg.org/get-involved/systers/ More generally, the Wikipedia article on "Women in Computing", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing, has so

Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-23 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Systers, http://anitaborg.org/get-involved/systers/ More generally, the Wikipedia article on "Women in Computing", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing, has some possible resources. On 5/23/2016 3:45 AM, Sharan Foga wrote: Hi All Just a quick update. I've sent out an email to th

Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-23 Thread ARIJIT DAS
those groups are for Girls only? On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Sharan Foga wrote: > Hi All > > Just a quick update. I've sent out an email to the following groups so far: > > - Pyladies > - Phpladies > - Women Who Code > - Girls Who Code > - Black Girls Code > > I'll post any feedback I get.

Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects?

2016-05-23 Thread Sharan Foga
Hi All Just a quick update. I've sent out an email to the following groups so far: - Pyladies - Phpladies - Women Who Code - Girls Who Code - Black Girls Code I'll post any feedback I get. Also if anyone thinks of any other groups they'd like me to contact then please let me know. Thanks Sha