Getting women to stay in engineering professions

[Lisa Crispin]

This Nerd Girls program is very interesting, plus there are thoughts as to why women don't stay in tech fields.

http://todaysengineer.org/2010/Jul/Nerd-Girls.asp

BTW what should we be doing right now for Women in Agile?
-- Lisa

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Lisa Crispin
Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009)
Contributor to _Beautiful Testing_ (O'Reilly 2009)
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[Mike Sutton]

interesting stuff - insightful. I'm sure all these thoughts cannot be
wrong. Not sure what everyone is waiting for before something
practical is done as a concerted effort.

Right now we should be talking to some of the 22 women introduced.

We are running out of time and therefore I propose that we

a) meet to form pairs to approach each of the women introduced

b) as a group agree broad guidelines and questions and general form of
the approach

c) go off and talk to as many introducees as possible over the next 3
weeks, use skype video as appropriate. If the opportunity to visit
this person and film an interview presents itself, grab it with both
hands! - We really should try and get as much of face2face footage as
we can for the exhibition.

d) edit the results of these interactions into something we can use.

If we can create video interviews (face to face) between now and end
of July (atleast 3 interviews for the exhibition) then that would be
awesome. But I realise that may be pushing it.

I propose that as many of us meet this weekend on skype to do (a) and
(b) above. All other volunteers who cannot make it - please - we need
you to commit to help with interviews etc over the next 3 weeks. If
you cannot afford the time, say so now.

I'm free on Sunday 7-9 pm GMT.

cheers
Mike

[Lisa Crispin]

I can meet on Sunday, pretty much anytime.

I never have gotten a video camera, I guess I should, though I don't know that I'll have an opportunity to interview anyone in person. Can we record Skype videos? Or is there some other online recording software? I have Audacity sound recording software, but I've only used it one time, and it only recorded my side of the conversation - the person who interviewed me knew how to weave the two recordings, his and mine, together. Do we have any person we can consult on this recording technology?

I've only nominated one person - I mean to do more - but it's kind of a long process, I discovered. So that might be hindering the number of nominations we're getting. Still, with 22 we should be able to get some good interviews. What's the link to where we can look at all the nominations? (I know I have it somewhere - I'm just in a rush!)

Thanks
Lisa

[Mike Sutton]

Link to the introductions here:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgEgPR8L3pJZdEZaZEdkNG5oekxGOTB3MDhMb3FjU3c&hl=en_GB

I think each pair should have a camera if they need one - let me know
and I can get them ordered and made available.

We can record skype video - I use ECamm Call Recorder. It does video
and sound. Happy to consult on this.