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[arch-women] announcing pragmatique - call for participation
by ng0 08 Apr '17

08 Apr '17

Today I'm announcing pragmatique, a new project. Its primary focus is to open up the efforts I've been working on for some time to other people, to provide space as a community, and to work on more than just software. Our main project is pragmaOS, an on-going project to build a live-system for applications around GNUnet and further software solutions which make use of GNUnet, based on GuixSD. We are currently setting up our new development server, so there's no immediate fancy environment to sign up at and start hacking. Our software page shows an early road map without the targeted versions. You can read more about our project at https://pragmatique.xyz/ - be aware that this is an early version of the web site. Let me know what you think and join the fun!

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[arch-women] Inquiry about research paper
by Jaewon Choi 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

Dear Arch Linux community, Although this is not generally ideal place to ask, I wanted diverse opinion on this subject. including mixed genders. Hello, my name is Irvin Choi I am student from Dwight School Seoul, and I am writing a extended essay within IB (ibo.org) curriculum research paper about systemd, service manager for Linux/GNU operating system. There are few questions that I would like to ask to broaden my understanding regarding systemd, and I would like to kindly ask you to answer them to best of your ability. It is very important for my research paper, as the research paper plays huge role in my high school curriculum and possibly my future. I would like to mention that, I may use your questions on the research paper for credibility purposes. Here are the questions (please consider explaining your answers and avoid short answers): 1) Who are you and what do you do for the community? 2) What do you think of the systemd as a service manager? Do you have an opinion about its pros and cons? 3) What do you think users of the distribution thinks about the systemd? Do you think they favor systemd? If not, why so? 4) Through my research, I was able to see that there are existing service managers such as upstart, sysvinit, and others. Why did systemd become the standard over the others in most of the distributions? Was it worth the replacement of existing service manager that is seen to be reliable? 5) What changes that do you think systemd should make to improve itself? For instance, ‘typing systemctl everytime is bothersome. Systemd should shorten it to sctl instead.) 6) There are lots of Linux/GNU users across the world. To what users are systemd intended for? Do you think systemd is useful for the servers administrators, desktop users, laptop users, or others? 7) I’ve heard that there are lots of debate about systemd and it really got heated at one point, involving personal opinions, politics, and others. What was the cause and how did it get resolved (if at all)? 8) Is there anything else you would like to tell me about systemd? Thank you very much time.. It means a lot for me, as I am really interested in Linux/GNU system, and this became the opportunity to broaden my understanding. Have a great day.

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Re: [arch-women] Job Board
by Jacqueline Outka 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

Just chipping in to say InHerSight is a good starting resource regarding company vetting - it ranks companies according to a variety of metrics including equal opportunities for men and women and learning opportunities. There are also company reviews which tend to focus on workplace conditions, etc. The main downsides of using the site are that some smaller companies may not be included and it has an American slant. On Mon, 13 Feb 2017, 07:00 , <arch-women-request(a)lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > Send arch-women mailing list submissions to > arch-women(a)lists.archlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-women > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > arch-women-request(a)lists.archlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > arch-women-owner(a)lists.archlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of arch-women digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Job Board (Justin W. Flory) > 2. Re: Job Board (A. Mani) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 12:25:00 +0000 > From: "Justin W. Flory" <jflory7(a)gmail.com> > To: arch-women(a)lists.archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-women] Job Board > Message-ID: <b3ece6c9-2b8c-7547-1575-800415cb1e0d(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On 02/11/2017 08:21 PM, Dolores Portalatin wrote: > > I'd like to discuss the idea of having a jobs board. The board would > > list jobs from women friendly tech companies and generate a little cash > > for Arch Women. The free software foundation has something similar as an > > example: https://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs > > > > I'd like to hear people's thoughts on the pros and cons for this, if its > > something we should look into doing and how it should be done if we > > decide to go that route. > > > > I want to make sure we are vetting any companies that contact us so only > > high quality postings from good places are posted. Maybe with some > > criteria like having anti-harassment policies and being LGBTQ friendly. > > > > I think this would be an awesome idea and resource for the community. :) > My experience planning and mapping out something like this is minimal, > but I'd be happy to support it any way I can. > > Are there any other communities similar to Arch Women with something > like this that we could maybe refer to as an example? > > -- > Cheers, > Justin W. Flory > jflory7(a)gmail.com > >

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[arch-women] Job Board
by Dolores Portalatin 12 Feb '17

12 Feb '17

I'd like to discuss the idea of having a jobs board. The board would list jobs from women friendly tech companies and generate a little cash for Arch Women. The free software foundation has something similar as an example: https://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs I'd like to hear people's thoughts on the pros and cons for this, if its something we should look into doing and how it should be done if we decide to go that route. I want to make sure we are vetting any companies that contact us so only high quality postings from good places are posted. Maybe with some criteria like having anti-harassment policies and being LGBTQ friendly.

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[arch-women] wiki cleanup
by fsckd 19 May '16

19 May '16

Hello, As decided in the May meeting[1] there is going be a wiki cleanup this Saturday, May 21st, and again one week later on Saturday, May 28th. The idea is to find pages which need to be moved, merged, tagged, expanded, edited, or whatever and then do those things. We will also improve the navigation of the wiki by adding links to :start pages and making indexes. This is a great time to start work on hellerbarde's project[2]. I started documenting wiki conventions[3]. As of this writing it is nowhere near finished. Hopefully enough will be done by Saturday to serve as a rough guide of what is expected on the wiki. As always, please point out the unclear parts. Hope to see you all there and thanks for your help! fsckd [1] https://archwomen.org/media/meeting-notes/archlinux-women_minutes_20160514.… [2] https://archwomen.org/wiki/projects:wiki_improvements:start [3] https://archwomen.org/wiki/wiki:conventions

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Re: [arch-women] [Fedora Women] Re: Rethinking Pooling Strategies
by A. Mani 16 Mar '16

16 Mar '16

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 1:27 AM, María Leandro <tatica(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote: > * I like the Classroom initiative, yet, we already have a classroom project > on Fedora that could be used to push the idea [0] > I did mention it : https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Mega_Free_Software_Classroom > * Meetings need people, people need time. Having meetings could be a good > idea, only if we come up with long term plans that actually need to be > discussed "Live", otherwise, mail-list works fine (I might be wrong, is just > my perception) :) > > * You could add a Fedora Women Day, just as we have a Fedora Activity Day. > Either in person or remote, it could be the perfect place for us to know > each other and also to let the world know that we do exist. Maybe it would > be nice to plan a bi-yearly meeting and just do an activity Day specific for > the Fedora Females on board. > > > Just drooping ideas, hope they help. fine, we can have a Fedora Women's Day. The situation is like lot of women are interested in learning, projects, internships, certificates, ... There are a few initiatives with limited uptake like the well known ones, GSOC ,systers-related, etc and so we need to offer more. Best A. Mani Prof(Miss) A. Mani CU, ASL, AMS, ISRS, CLC, CMS HomePage: http://www.logicamani.in Blog: http://logicamani.blogspot.in/ http://about.me/logicamani sip:girlprofessor@ekiga.net

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Re: [arch-women] [UbuntuWomen] Rethinking Pooling Strategies
by meskarune＠archwomen.org 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Hello, we have the meeting logs posted at https://archwomen.org/media/meeting-logs/2016-03-12LOG.txt We would really like to share things like mentors and classes, and help signal boost each other's events. It would be awesome to plan out ways we can collaborate and get/retain more female users. Dolores Portalatin ------ Original message------From: A. ManiDate: Sun, Mar 13, 2016 2:08 PMTo: Ubuntu-Women;women;arch-women(a)lists.archlinux.org;Cc: Subject:[UbuntuWomen] Rethinking Pooling Strategies We had a joint meeting on #archlinux-women yesterday and did discuss afew plans.But we really need to plan more sustainable models in the face ofcompeting projects and address gaps in our targeting.BestA. ManiProf(Miss) A. ManiCU, ASL, AMS, ISRS, CLC, CMSHomePage: http://www.logicamani.inBlog: http://logicamani.blogspot.in/http://about.me/logicamanisip:girlprofessor@e… Ubuntu-Women mailing listUbuntu-Women@lists.ubuntu.comhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-women

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[arch-women] Rethinking Pooling Strategies
by A. Mani 13 Mar '16

13 Mar '16

We had a joint meeting on #archlinux-women yesterday and did discuss a few plans. But we really need to plan more sustainable models in the face of competing projects and address gaps in our targeting. Best A. Mani Prof(Miss) A. Mani CU, ASL, AMS, ISRS, CLC, CMS HomePage: http://www.logicamani.in Blog: http://logicamani.blogspot.in/ http://about.me/logicamani sip:girlprofessor@ekiga.net

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[arch-women] Great Wiki Cleanup
by Dolores Portalatin 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

We need to discuss and plan "the great wiki cleanup". Our wiki is sorta all over the place and it should be a bit more organized. Pages need to be marked as stubs placed into the right name spaces. I thought I'd get the ball rolling with planning on the mailing list. :)

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[arch-women] January meeting rescheduled
by fsckd 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

The January meeting was rescheduled to Saturday, 9th January, at 16:00 UTC. A tentative agenda can be found on the wiki. https://archwomen.org/wiki/meetings:2016_january Meetings are held in the channel #archlinux-women on the freenode network. See you there!

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