Women Chapter

This chapter aims to raise awareness on women OSGeo members' activity.

It is not meant to be a women only club. This will lead to discrimination, and that's exactly what we must avoid, and what Chris and Simon pointed out. On the opposite, it aims to be a group where women can find guidance to start contributing with OSGeo projects.

What's new
Have ideas to share? add them in the following section, and/or use the mailing list!

Everyone is free to post on the mailing list, and subscribe - good ideas are gender independent. The mailing list is open also to non-subscribers.

FOSS4G 2010 has been a speedup in live conversations about the topic, and more is flowing on Discuss and Women mailing lists.

Ideas

 * Brainstorming: find out general interest topics/problems/experiences, start discussion!
 * Establish a connection with Systers
 * Connect with Debian- and Ubuntu-women to share successful ideas


 * OSGeo-women mentoring program, like Debian-Women's
 * Proposed mentors: list you here. topics and actual ways of mentoring will be discussed later, it's just to have a first feedback.
 * Anne Ghisla
 * María Arias de Reyna

Done

 * Connect with Debian- and Ubuntu-women to share successful ideas - at DUCCIT
 * Added link to OSGeo Women on Women's Caucus page: The Women's Caucus is an initiative started by the Free Software Foundation to increase women's participation in the free software movement.

Sign up there!

 * Anne Ghisla
 * Helena Mitasova
 * Jo Walsh
 * Kate Chapman
 * Jo Cook
 * Anita Graser
 * Margherita Di Leo
 * María Arias de Reyna
 * Joana Simoes