3. HELLO! I’m Faye.
• Industrial engineering
graduate
• Mozilla Rep since 2011
• Web enthusiast
• Systems and
procedures staff in a car
manufacturing company
4. 3C’s of Open Source
•Code
•Collaboration
•Community
OSI, 2008
6. How to do it
•Using open source Web frameworks, tools
and technologies
•Contribute by reporting bugs in open web
technologies
•Join communities and help educate others
14. •Over 50% of humans are women
•Half of your potential users are women
….and yet there is a low presence of
women in open web initiatives.
15. • Mitchell Baker
Mozilla Chief Lizard Wrangler
Chairperson of Mozilla Foundation
Chairperson and former CEO of Mozilla Corporation
16.
17. Our goals
• Increase gender diversity in Mozilla communities
• Improve visibility and involvement of women in
FLOSS projects
• Empower women in the industry
19. HOW CAN WOMEN CONTRIBUTE?
• Bugs reporting
• Code
• Design
• Documentation
• Events organization
• Localization
• Marketing
• Support
• And the list goes on…
21. How to get women involved?
•No sexist jokes
•Make women feel expected
on events (like this!)
22. What will we do?
• Recruit women the WoMoz initiative in the
Philippines
• Organize events together!
• Improve the online presence of the cause!
• Join tech events and promote the cause
• Promote Mozilla Reps/Student Reps to women
24. Join the WoMoz initiative
• Mailing List (womoz@lists.womoz.org )
Subscribe through http://bit.ly/womozlist
• Wiki (https://wiki.mozilla.org/WoMoz)
• Twitter (@womozilla)
www.womoz.org
So let’s have a brief recap of what open source is
So let’s have a brief recap of what open source is
CodeSome popular world-class open source projects are Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, RubyCollaborationCollaborative tools are the backbone of the open source way. Tools include version control systems, IRC, mailing lists, wikis, blogs to help developers working on building code together. CommunitySharing ideas and developing code across the Internet with developers all over the globe forms the community for most open source projects.
Big words right? Seems like something a woman can’t do?
One of the advocates of this project is Mozilla, a free software community known for Firefox
Inspiration
Those are the main concerns of the Women and Mozilla initiative of Mozilla, one of the projects of open web advocates to empower women in the field of free and open source technologies.