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== Ideas and Issues == |
== Ideas and Issues == |
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| − | + | * International Women's Day, March 8th |
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| − | + | * eWaste workshops |
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| − | + | * Training -- for older girls, this usually needs a point or a specific focus to help women see the relevance to their career/education |
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| − | + | * Make a short film |
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| − | + | * Use your digital camera |
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| − | + | * Design your own ringtone or phone widgets |
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| − | + | * Slippery slope to programming -- eg. automation of something. teach kids how to automate and they will naturally become better at finding empowering ways to solve everyday problems. |
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| − | + | * OLPC -- eg, encourage older girls writing something for younger girls, or eg use Scratch for a new app to help girls handle credit cards. |
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| − | + | * The image of what people do in the area needs some stuff -- for example, ways to show *why* people do things for the open source community, for social reasons. Profile the reasons why people get into IT. This is a good add-on for any event - once people are there, we can show them how motivating it is and give them ways to find out how that happens. |
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Make your notes available to everyone to share! |
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== Organisations == |
== Organisations == |
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Revision as of 04:34, 19 January 2009
Pia's group included:
(PUT YOUR NAMES HERE)
Alyssa - a law student and intereted in tommorrow's legal stuff. Not really into tech, more open source tech.
Dora: Legal background too - Aust Digital Alliance, copyright stuff
nancy - is involved with Genderchangers.org - Women's skillsharing and open source connective stuff. Eclectic tech. Is speaking on Wednesday!
Jason - Interested in among other things, human rights, gender equality, sociopolitical issues. Involved in Linux and FLOSS. Is a law school graduate.
Raena - Technical editor at SitePoint.com publishing techie books. Recently escaped corporate software world! :)
Pia - spends half her life on OLPC, also trying to set up an OSS competency centre (training).
Kathrine - Doesn't get software. ;) Helps Robyn with ComputerShare. Gives them out to people in need. Plays WOW. Has helped others fix their computers. (Give yourself more credit Kath! :D)
Robyn is a teacher - teachers raw beginners in IT. Teaches women who are scared of computers, nurses who are scared of losing their jobs through not knowing, mums who are petrified of their husbands or children telling them to NOT TOUCH IT! A course involved a strip-n-build at a womens health centre and was floated as positive mental health.
Pascal - comes from a design background - a graphic and web designer. "Most of the other topics are way too hardcore for me."
Personal Stories, Inspiration and Anecdotes
Ideas and Issues
- Ada Lovelace Day
- Software Freedom Day
- BarCamps
- International Women's Day, March 8th
- eWaste workshops
- Training -- for older girls, this usually needs a point or a specific focus to help women see the relevance to their career/education
- Make a short film
- Use your digital camera
- Design your own ringtone or phone widgets
- Slippery slope to programming -- eg. automation of something. teach kids how to automate and they will naturally become better at finding empowering ways to solve everyday problems.
- OLPC -- eg, encourage older girls writing something for younger girls, or eg use Scratch for a new app to help girls handle credit cards.
- The image of what people do in the area needs some stuff -- for example, ways to show *why* people do things for the open source community, for social reasons. Profile the reasons why people get into IT. This is a good add-on for any event - once people are there, we can show them how motivating it is and give them ways to find out how that happens.
Make your notes available to everyone to share!
Make a Planet of girls' and women's events.