This BOF featured Erinn Clark from the Debian Women Project

= The Debian Women Project =

 * The original idea: Get more women involved in Debian, especially in technical parts of the project.
 * Provide a starting point for women, who want to get involved in the Debian project
 * Currently: 8 women involved in the Debian project, (~9 women have ever been Debian-Developers)
 * Problems addressed:
   * It's hard to get into the Debian Project (even if you're a man) => might scare off women very likely
   * Women who were interested in development, were rejected for many different reason
 * Motivation of the Project: Can we make a difference?

= Women & Open Source Software in general =

 * Distinction between technical and non-technical work
 * Most women are involved in non-technical parts of a project
 * Example: OpenOffice.org-Marketing project - mainly driven by women
 * Cultural problem: technology unfortunately is often considered a male thing

= Women & Ubuntu =

 * Why are there no women involved in Ubuntu development? It's a case of scale of the project!
 * Major Plus: Ubuntu is newer than Debian
 * This means: We can do everything to not run into the problems other projects face(d)
 * First Part of this philosophy: Code of Conduct
   * Whether it works, has still to be proved (so far, so good)
   * If there is something like Code of Conduct, "unsocialiced people" are more likely to not show up in the Ubuntu project
   * Adaption of behavoir:
     * Most people on mailing list and irc act according to the Code of Conduct
     * New users first watch and then act the same way
   * Meetings on IRC tend to be more like a true conversation

= Possible actions to take =

 * Docs should be more precise, more documentating the "process" of doing something (esp. bug reporting, because it's an important task and the task with the most cryptic docs)
 * Women shall be more "visible": encourage all female users you know to get involved!
 * Encourage women to go to conferences (or sponsor them!)
 * New project: a question day
 * Learning together, mentoring  on a local scale (local teams)
 * More social events
 * Adding something more specific about sexism into the Code of Conduct
 * Use gender-neutral language in any language
 * Encourage women to use female nicks on IRC
 * There should be a doc on how people can help the project
 * Go to schools, attract young people to Ubuntu
 * Promoting Ubuntu in Cybercafés
 * A ubuntu-love / ubuntu-family mailing list
 * Something similiar to debian-jr
 * Marketing targeted at female customers: Use it, even if you are a woman