Promoting the list

[Ted Husted <hu...@apache.org>]

I was wondering if it would be all right to send a note like this to two women who I believe may be in your target audience. One individual was recently made a committer, and another is on my short list for future nominations.

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I thought you might be interested to learn of a new mailing list at Apache, still in its formative stages.

> The women@apache.org mailing list encourages participation by women in Apache Software Foundation projects.
> This list is open to anyone who participates in an Apache project to discuss topics that will promote even greater
> participation and contributions by women. Public archives are available for this list.

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-Ted.

Re: Promoting the list

["Jean T. Anderson" <jt...@bristowhill.com>]

I'm in favor of this, Ted, but we need agreement among the participants 
on this list that it's ok to invite (in essense, recruit) more 
participants who may not be committers. I think this would be excellent.

For now, in your short description below I would remove the "Public 
archives are available for this list." so that the description is just:

> The women@apache.org mailing list encourages participation by women in Apache Software Foundation projects. This list is open to anyone who participates in an Apache project to discuss topics that will promote even greater participation and contributions by women. 

I see that Noel set archiving up, but it hasn't kicked in yet. Once it 
does start getting archives, I expect the archives to be at: 
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-women

  -jean


Ted Husted wrote:
> I was wondering if it would be all right to send a note like this to two women who I believe may be in your target audience. One individual was recently made a committer, and another is on my short list for future nominations.
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> I thought you might be interested to learn of a new mailing list at Apache, still in its formative stages.
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>> The women@apache.org mailing list encourages participation by women in Apache Software Foundation projects.
>> This list is open to anyone who participates in an Apache project to discuss topics that will promote even greater
>> participation and contributions by women. Public archives are available for this list.
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> -Ted.
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