18:00 <pleia2> #startmeeting 18:00 <meetingology> Meeting started Tue Aug 13 18:00:55 2013 UTC. The chair is pleia2. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology. 18:00 <meetingology> 18:00 <meetingology> Available commands: #accept #accepted #action #agree #agreed #chair #commands #endmeeting #endvote #halp #help #idea #info #link #lurk #meetingname #meetingtopic #nick #progress #rejected #replay #restrictlogs #save #startmeeting #subtopic #topic #unchair #undo #unlurk #vote #voters #votesrequired 18:00 <pleia2> who all is here for the meeting? :) 18:01 <Cheri703> o/ 18:01 <akk> o/ 18:01 <pleia2> #link http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/Agenda 18:01 <pleia2> Meeting agenda && 18:01 <pleia2> ^^ 18:01 <IdleOne> o/ 18:02 <pleia2> is anyone from the mailing list who participated in the thread about improvements to our getting involved docs here? 18:03 <pleia2> ok, we'll wait a bit to get to that agenda item then :) 18:03 <pleia2> #topic 1305 Blueprint updates 18:03 <pleia2> #link https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu-women.org/+spec/community-1305-ubuntu-women 18:03 <pleia2> I sent the contact info for Career Days participants to Cheri703 18:03 <pleia2> Cheri703: any progress to report there? 18:04 <Cheri703> Yes, I am slacking. I will contact them by this weekend. 18:04 <pleia2> #action Cheri703 to contact potential Career Days participants 18:04 * meetingology Cheri703 to contact potential Career Days participants 18:04 <pleia2> thanks :) 18:04 <pleia2> Cheri703: you again, Competition news? :) 18:05 <pleia2> I added some more questions to our private questions key, so I think we have enough 18:05 <Cheri703> questions are finally sorted! so next step is creating the form for submission 18:05 <Cheri703> then choosing a start date and advertising the heck out of it 18:05 <pleia2> I'm thinking Monday 18:06 <pleia2> that will give us the weekend to get the form sorted and blog posts prepped 18:06 <Cheri703> do we want to advertise in advance of start date or? 18:06 <pleia2> not sure, we also have the survey going out this week (we'll get to that in a moment) 18:07 <pleia2> maybe we send out a teaser tweet/fb/g+ on Friday? 18:07 <IdleOne> I think it is better to have everything in place before advertising, just in case of any snags 18:08 <pleia2> #link http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Events/Competitions/ScavengerHunt 18:08 <pleia2> that will also need to be reviewed and updated as needed with dates 18:10 <Cheri703> agree with IdleOne 18:10 <Cheri703> (sorry, someone came to the door) 18:10 <Cheri703> Original thought had been to start it on like a friday and then run til a monday, so 2 weekends in the contest time frame 18:10 <Cheri703> so if we start posting about it monday, then we could start it next friday? 18:11 <pleia2> sure 18:11 <Cheri703> and that gives us the rest of this week/most of next to get it finalized/ready 18:11 <pleia2> that will also give us nice spacing between survey announcement and competition 18:11 <Cheri703> yeah 18:12 <pleia2> #action pleia2 to update ScavengerHunt wiki 18:12 * meetingology pleia2 to update ScavengerHunt wiki 18:12 <pleia2> Cheri703: want to write the announcement blog post? 18:12 <pleia2> #action pleia2 to advertise competition on social media 18:12 * meetingology pleia2 to advertise competition on social media 18:13 <Cheri703> uhm...I can 18:13 <pleia2> #action Cheri703 to write blog post announcing the competition 18:13 * meetingology Cheri703 to write blog post announcing the competition 18:14 <pleia2> I can proof read/help as needed :) 18:14 <Cheri703> ok cool 18:14 <pleia2> ok, survey! 18:15 <pleia2> so I worked with AlanBell to come up with survey questions, and the survey is now up :) http://goo.gl/CXem63 18:15 <pleia2> pretty basic, I figure we can refine in follow-up surveys as needed 18:15 <pleia2> this is our first survey so I wanted it to be pretty broad and general 18:16 <pleia2> I haven't shared the link yet, so this is the debut, if anyone has any comments or changes they wish to see, now's your chance :) 18:18 <pleia2> good, bad, indifferent? :) 18:18 <Cheri703> good! :) 18:19 <IdleOne> looks good here 18:19 <pleia2> ok cool 18:19 <pleia2> looks like that's it for blueprint items 18:20 <pleia2> #topic Tips on how to get involved with the various skills that each of us have, either in the community of Ubuntu/Ubuntu-Women/FOSS or in the IT field with FOSS being the focus, and how does the non-FOSS IT world sees the FOSS world in IT field 18:20 <pleia2> looks like belkinsa isn't here 18:20 <pleia2> but what I gathered from the thread that inspired this topic is that our "how to get involved" resources aren't obvious enough on our site 18:21 <pleia2> it's true, http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/ needs some work 18:22 <pleia2> so I'm thinking I'll follow-up on list and suggest they schedule a meeting specificially to talk about this and see what we can do to improve it :) 18:22 <IdleOne> maybe move the link up just under the About link? 18:22 <IdleOne> your idea is better I think :) 18:22 <pleia2> IdleOne: I think it's more involved than that and we'll find that even our getting involved page, once found, is not sufficient 18:23 <pleia2> it's kind of "here are some links, have fun!" 18:23 <pleia2> #action pleia2 to follow up on list with improvements for getting involved & what people are doing docs 18:23 * meetingology pleia2 to follow up on list with improvements for getting involved & what people are doing docs 18:24 <pleia2> #topic Any other business (AOB) 18:24 <IdleOne> well it is a wiki, everybody is welcome to improve it :) 18:24 <IdleOne> err maybe not 18:24 <pleia2> IdleOne: only admins can edit the front page 18:24 <pleia2> (we've had vandalism) 18:24 <IdleOne> yeah just remembered that 18:25 <pleia2> and the folks asking for improvements are the ones who are trying to get involved, so they can't really rewrite it ;) 18:25 <pleia2> feedback from them is essential though 18:26 <IdleOne> indeed 18:26 <pleia2> ok, so any other things folks wish to discuss? 18:26 <IdleOne> nope :) 18:28 <Cheri703> I'm good 18:31 <pleia2> ok, thanks everyone! 18:31 <pleia2> #endmeeting