Yes, our main goal is to make the Arch Linux community more welcoming to women and to increase the contributions from women to Arch. (and maybe help encourage women's involvement in the greater FOSS community as well) We'd like to see some women become Trusted Users and Package Maintainers. But as we are still so new (4 months old now) there is a ton of work to do. Some of the things we have in the works: mentorship program, Classes on Package Maintaining, getting relevant information out to women users, working with the Devs and Mods to make sure rules are known and enforced, etc
We've got a shared news feed in the works at http://news.archwomen.org and I'm working on a calendar and events feed as well http://phpicalendar.archwomen.org (those haven't been integrated into the main site just yet)
On our blog we try to link resources to programs that teach women how to program and write scripts, as well as linux tutorials. (rails girls, pyladies, ladies learning code, dev chix, etc)
I would also love to organize meet-ups with other Linux women users, to Linux cons and tech events. Its more fun and safer to go to those events with a group of other women.
There were apparently a ton of women Arch users who kept their gender hidden, and "came out" so to speak after Arch Women was formed. (I was actually pleasantly surprised to meet them all) When I first started using Arch Linux 6 years ago, I didn't know any other women who did, and now being able to network in an easy way and teach more women how to use Arch has just been amazing.
I'd love to have ya'll come hang out in our IRC channel or even join the mailing list, comment on the site, etc. I think one reason why women's contributions to FOSS projects is so small is because of the segregation into xyz software/linux distrobution -- its easy to feel like you are the only one. But we all often use the same software packages and even if one community has few women, others might have a ton who could offer support and encouragement. I really think that networking with other Linux projects will help increase exposure to women role models and possible mentors.
There are a lot of plans and ideas for Arch Women right now. We still haven't exactly figured everything out yet, (I'm sure thats obvious lol) but I do really think its been worth it so far.
I believe fedora women used to have a website and IRC channel, but I haven't heard much of anything from them in years.
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Date: 2012-05-22 04:33 am (UTC)We've got a shared news feed in the works at http://news.archwomen.org and I'm working on a calendar and events feed as well http://phpicalendar.archwomen.org (those haven't been integrated into the main site just yet)
On our blog we try to link resources to programs that teach women how to program and write scripts, as well as linux tutorials. (rails girls, pyladies, ladies learning code, dev chix, etc)
I would also love to organize meet-ups with other Linux women users, to Linux cons and tech events. Its more fun and safer to go to those events with a group of other women.
There were apparently a ton of women Arch users who kept their gender hidden, and "came out" so to speak after Arch Women was formed. (I was actually pleasantly surprised to meet them all) When I first started using Arch Linux 6 years ago, I didn't know any other women who did, and now being able to network in an easy way and teach more women how to use Arch has just been amazing.
I'd love to have ya'll come hang out in our IRC channel or even join the mailing list, comment on the site, etc. I think one reason why women's contributions to FOSS projects is so small is because of the segregation into xyz software/linux distrobution -- its easy to feel like you are the only one. But we all often use the same software packages and even if one community has few women, others might have a ton who could offer support and encouragement. I really think that networking with other Linux projects will help increase exposure to women role models and possible mentors.
There are a lot of plans and ideas for Arch Women right now. We still haven't exactly figured everything out yet, (I'm sure thats obvious lol) but I do really think its been worth it so far.
I believe fedora women used to have a website and IRC channel, but I haven't heard much of anything from them in years.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Women
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