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[OH-Publicity] Fwd: Diversity outreach article for Full Circle Magazine?

Karen Rustad karen at openhatch.org
Sat Jun 25 22:29:18 UTC 2011


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From: Karen Rustad <karen.rustad at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: Diversity outreach article for Full Circle Magazine?
To: Elizabeth Krumbach <lyz at princessleia.com>
Cc: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org>


It's an article! (And an author photo, if needed.)

Also, I hereby challenge Asheesh to write a follow-up "Practical Guide to
Outreach and Mentorship" (or somesuch) next month. :)

-- Karen


On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Karen Rustad <karen.rustad at gmail.com> wrote:

> Um, okay! I'll try to put something together by the 3rd, then.
>
> -- Karen
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 6 Jun 2011, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote:
>>
>>  On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Hey Asheesh.
>>>>>
>>>>> Every month the Ubuntu Women team has a column in Full Circle Magazine,
>>>>> details here, scroll down to the bottom for links to past articles:
>>>>> http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/FullCircleMagazine
>>>>>
>>>>> It's been mostly interviews lately, but I am hoping to mix it up with
>>>>> an
>>>>> article or two.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Wow, I sucked at replying to this. Oops.
>>>>
>>>>  It was really great talking to you at SCaLE about your thoughts on
>>>>> increasing diversity by mentoring one person who is at a time who is
>>>>> "different than you." Would you be interested in writing a short
>>>>> article
>>>>> about it for our column? Or maybe an article about the overwhelming
>>>>> success/interest in your technical programs targeted at women? Or both
>>>>> for
>>>>> two articles? :)
>>>>>
>>>>> The column deadline for April is only 2 weeks away, but if you need
>>>>> more
>>>>> time we can have this article for the May or June issue instead.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well, hi. Is it worth discussing now that it's 3 months later?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yep! We do articles monthly and will need them for the foreseeable
>>> future, so if you're up for writing something... :)
>>>
>>
>> Yo Karen, (and Elizabeth)
>>
>> Want to write up a magazine-length version of your
>> http://www.littlegreenriver.com/2011/05/24/paper-outreach-and-diversity-in-foss/?
>>
>> Here are some facts I can offer you:
>>
>> [20:12:09] <paulproteus> pleia2: What is the publication deadline /
>> schedule?
>> [20:12:17] <paulproteus> For Full Circle!
>> [20:12:20] <paulproteus> I'm excited about writing something. (-:
>> [20:12:43] <pleia2> paulproteus: articles are due 1st sunday each month
>> [20:12:54] <paulproteus> Wow, so I have plenty of time. (-:
>> [20:12:57] <pleia2> yep!
>> [20:13:18] <paulproteus> I think that if I'm going to write two things for
>> y'all, I might as well write one per month, rather than two in one month.
>> [20:15:15] <paulproteus> pleia2: I think maybe I should start with, like,
>> "An overview of diversity and outreach and their interrelatedness" (AKA "The
>> Asheesh perspective on diversity").
>> [20:15:40] <paulproteus> pleia2: You might like the paper that aldeka
>> (Karen) wrote;
>> http://www.littlegreenriver.com/2011/05/24/paper-outreach-and-diversity-in-foss/
>> [20:16:26] <pleia2> cool, thanks
>> [20:16:33] <pleia2> and yeah, that sounds good :)
>> [20:18:34] <paulproteus> I wonder, actually, if Karen would want to write
>> a magazine-length version of that instead of me.
>> [20:18:38] <paulproteus> Then I'll slip on fewer deadlines.
>> [20:19:19] <pleia2> http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/FullCircleMagazine has
>> details about the articles we write, including links to style guidelines,
>> past articles, etc
>> [20:19:37] <pleia2> lots of interviews lately, but if you scroll down
>> you'll find some articles :)
>>
>> What do you say?
>>
>> --
>> -- Asheesh.
>>
>> http://asheesh.org/
>>
>> That secret you've been guarding, isn't.
>>
>
>
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