[Systers-dev] Systers - Spread the word: Press Guidelines

[Robin Jeffries]

Kalpana,
I really appreciate your enthusiasm here, but I think it's important to
distinguish between systers and systers-dev.  These are things that systers
members should be dealing with, not a separate group.  The fact that systers
hasn't felt the need to publicize is an interesting one, and perhaps we
should have a discussion of this on systers, but having a different group
publicize for us is sort of strange.

The logos are Anita Borg logos because we are part of the Anita Borg
Institute, and any changes to that have to be worked through them.  Again,
the logo ought to reflect what the systers community as a whole
thinks/feels, not that of a separate group.

Your issue of getting information indexed by google is one we should take up
at the ABI end.  Up till this point, we have not wanted any systers content
indexed, as there are privacy concerns (no one wants their rant about a
difficult co-worker to show up in a search engine).  It may be that when we
added the wiki no one thought to adjust the robots.txt file for the fact
that we now have public information.  I'll see what I can do.  But please,
don't submit things to Google -- with the issues of some stuff being
confidential and some not, it's very important that someone who knows all
about the site do any interacting with search engines.

Please, keep this enthusiasm -- we need it on Systers.  But take it over to
systers and see if you can get involved in related efforts there.

Robin

 On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:27 PM, k roy <kroykroy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> As this is my first mail to the list so I would like to first introduce
> myself. I am Kalpana Roy, final year student pursuing my B.Tech
> (Information
> Technology), from India. I came to know about Systers through this year's
> Google Summer of Code and decided to apply to its project idea of improving
> the Systers' mailman archives and search option. I have been lurking around
> the IRC channel since then and have been an observer of the list mails. The
> idea of having a private female-only community appealed to me and I have
> decided to volunteer to help in Systers list development and maintenance.
> My impressions about Systers were that the community was very active but
> there were very few volunteers who actually maintain the list. Also the
> biggest surprise was the fact that in spite of being into existence since
> 1987, this online community was not extremely popular on the net. On
> looking
> up Systers in Google, in most cases the search engine asks if we wanted to
> type Sisters or Systems. Hence, I would like to urge the community to
> spread
> the word about Systers community and popularise it. The idea behind is not
> only having more and more women become aware of this wonderful group of
> like
> minded women but also to have more volunteers who can help build and
> maintain this community.
> I have a few suggestions for spreading the word about Systers. For
> starters,
> an official press guideline can be released with guidelines and templates
> showing the correct usage of Systers and also pointing out where the
> community should or should not be mentioned. Also Systers does not have an
> official logo; currently it is associated with the Anita Borg Institute
> logo. An official Systers logo can be extremely handy in popularising the
> community and can be modified for other sub-groups within Systers (PHD,
> Entrepreneur, SoC) like the BarCamp logos (http://barcamp.org/LogoGallery
> ).
> Also, it will be very good if Systers can become a part of the
> communication
> technologies like maintaining a blog, having accounts on popular social
> networking channels (Systers has one on Facebook), and microblogging sites
> like Twitter.
> Just my thoughts on making the community popular and recognised and also to
> attract more people to volunteer and help.
>
> The second thing which I would like to share is that I have made a Google
> custom search engine (
>
> http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=partner-pub-3742164662838828%3Aayxvh4-pm7n
> )
> for giving better results related to FOSS and related internship and job
> opportunities and also GSoC. The new Systers wiki (
> http://systers.org/systers-dev/) has not been yet indexed by Google and
> hence it does not turn up in the results. The sitemap of the wiki (
> http://systers.org/systers-dev/doku.php/sitemap?do=index) is not
> recognised
> by Google as a correct sitemap format hence I would request the wiki
> maintainers to submit a sitemap for the same.
>
> Thanking you,
> ~kr0y.
>
> --
> ~ Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned
> skyward, for there you have been, there you long to return --Da Vinci
>
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