This slide is a brief glimpse of the current scenario of Women involvement in technology (FOSS to be more specific), the reason for the shocking statistics and how things can be made better.

2. When one woman helps another,
amazing things can happen….

3. From 1.1% to 11%
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100
80
Men
60
Women
40
20
0
2002
2013

4. Some common unfriendly terms
• Women hate us geeks
• OMG a girl!
• They're just not interested

5. Myths about FOSS
• You need to be a coder

6. • You're on your own

7. • Degree Mandatory

8. How to change things?
• More visibility
• No discrimination
• E po er women
• All o tri utio s are alua le

9. What opportunities are there for women?
Outreach Program for Women

10. What opportunities are there for women?
WoMoz – Women in Mozilla

11. Similar other groups:
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Ubuntu Women
GNOME Women
PHP Women
DrupalChix
Linuxchix
Debian Women

12. Some inspirations for all of us:
Dame Steve Shirley, the World’s First
Freelance Programmer
Mitchell Baker – Head & Chairperson of
Mozilla Foundation, Chairperson Mozilla
Corporation

13. Questions

14. About the speaker:
Priyanka Nag
Website: priynag.in
Twitter: @priynag
E-mail: priynag@gmail.com