Women's in Open Source(Mozilla)

1. Presenter
:

2. • For Freedom of speech
• Encouragement
• Awareness
• Motivation
• Come Forward Like a Leader

3. Mitchell Baker – Head &
Chairperson of Mozilla
Foundation, Chairperson Mozilla
Corporation
Satoko Takita –
Chairman Mozilla Japan

4. FOSS is often « unknown » and suffers from
misconceptions
•Women don’t have much knowledge on
programming.
•They don’t show their interest in technical
aspects.
“Free and Open Source Software”

5. • Women are playing key roles in corporate sectors.
• Indian women have come across a long way.
• They are very good at coding and programming and show
much interest in technical aspects when compared to few
men.
• Indian women come forward, and able to make situations
accordingly.
Sangeeta
Talwar
Neelam
Dhawan Anita
Borg
DeLisa
Alexander Sue
Gardner
Adele
Goldberg
V. M.
Rometty

6. • Ubuntu Women
• GNOME Women
• PHP Women
• DrupalChix
• Linuxchix
• Debian Women

7. www.womoz.org
What is WoMoz for?
Meeting point open to all, where women can meet other
FLOSS contributors (ML, IRC, wiki, blog)
GOAL?
Help contribute to FLOSS & Mozilla: localization, events,
QA, evangelism, community marketing, development...
WoMoz!

8. You Need To Be a Coder:

9. • Localization
• Design
• Support
• Events
• Bugs
• Marketing
• Code
• System Analysis
• Quality Assurance
• Documentation
• Blogging

10. Men
95%
<= Women 5%
Source : FLOSSPOLS, 2004 - 2006

12. -No one knows
• Lack of interest or experience.
• Hesitation to come forward.
• Self-doubts and lack of confidence.
• Hard to get involved.
• Unwanted attention. (OMG a g1rl!!)

13. • You are not alone.
• We are here for you.
• Guides you develops you.
• Provide role models
• Give tutorials According your
interest topics
• Mentoring project

14. • Present your Idea’s.
• Share them
• Increase Contribution % of women
in FLOSS.
• Be Creative
• Find opportunities to collaborate with
Mozilla developers

15. • irc.mozilla.org: #womoz
• www.womoz.org
1) IRC
2) Mailing Lists
3) Wiki
4) Blogs
5) Videos
6) Meetings
7) Regional seminars
8) Competitions
9) Tech. Challenges
10) Exiting Gifts

16. • Join Us…………
• Come up with your idea’s
• Let’s use it….. and make
women community
proud……..