Re: What we need to do

Hi All,

Here is my two-cents :)

@Postgresmen is run by Nikolay Samokhvalov and his main focus is indeed
tech Pоstgres news. He also organises #RuPostgres meetups. I agree that
purely tech news is not exactly what we should focus on since there are
many other channels in place focusing on that. Agree on open source / women
focus and maybe we can do general tech news/women focus too.

Partially, I think we need to do the last step (*Define goals and steps to
reach them*) first and then we will realise who exactly we need to follow,
how broad we should be and what to post overall.

Here is my thinking and please feel free to feedback :)

I am keeping in mind our already defined goal: Postgres Women is a
non-profit organization created to* encourage and support women to become
active members of the PostgreSQL community* and *foster recognition of
their contribution to PostgreSQL* development.

1. We want to *increase awareness of our initiative across tech industry
*(this is broad I know, but I think there is no harm in it) >> To do
this we could follow major women's initiatives in tech on twitter/facebook
in hope they will follow us and we will boost each-other's content aka
get a wider reach/awareness. Note: we could also get ideas on what
initiatives we could do from their pages.
2. We would like to *raise awareness of contribution of women in
Postgres* >> @planetpostgres has a good flow of all news related to
Postgres development, ideally we would retweet women-led contributions
(blog posts, patch announcements etc.)
3. We would like to *encourage women to become active members in the
community *>> any big conferences in north America, Europe and Asia have
their own twitter channels and announce relevant talks/blogs, we could take
that content and amplify women in it (retweet announcements about women
speakers, solicit content from those women for our channels e.g.
interviews, focus posts, opinion posts etc.)

Reg face to face meeting, unfortunately I won't be there but if you will be
meeting there maybe others might join via skype/slack/whatsapp?

thoughts?

Valeria

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 7:53 AM, Lætitia Avrot <laetitia(dot)avrot(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi Dian,
>
>> I don't think there's enough content under the heading of women-focused
>> Postgres stuff to keep this thing going without branching out some. As far
>> as Twitter/social media goes, @postgresmen seem like a decent reference
>> point: they publish general news, showcase interesting projects and useful
>> tools, boost on-topic blog posts, and so forth. Doing that with an eye
>> toward emphasizing and advancing the work women do on+with Postgres and
>> developing a supportive community would be awesome.
>>
> I might be wrong but I think Postgresmen is related to a russian postgres
> meetup so their followers are interested in tech news whereas our purpuse
> is quite different. But maybe I'm wrong...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lætitia
>