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Women & Mozilla ("WoMoz") a community composed of members from different Open Source projects. We are mainly dedicated to improving women's visibility and involvement in Free/Open Source and Mozilla, and to increase the number of women contributors. Anyone can participate in this project, regardless of sex, age, job, etc. We are united by the common goal of promoting women's visibility and involvement in open source communities.
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• For Freedom of speech
• Encouragement
• Awareness
• Motivation
• Come Forward Like a Leader
Mitchell Baker – Head &
Chairperson of Mozilla
Foundation, Chairperson Mozilla
Corporation
Satoko Takita –
Chairman Mozilla Japan
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.
• 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
• Ubuntu Women
• GNOME Women
• PHP Women
• DrupalChix
• Linuxchix
• Debian Women
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!
You Need To Be a Coder:
• Localization
• Design
• Support
• Events
• Bugs
• Marketing
• Code
• System Analysis
• Quality Assurance
• Documentation
• Blogging
Men
95%
<= Women 5%
Source : FLOSSPOLS, 2004 - 2006
-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!!)
• You are not alone.
• We are here for you.
• Guides you develops you.
• Provide role models
• Give tutorials According your
interest topics
• Mentoring project
• Present your Idea’s. • Share them
• Increase Contribution % of women
in FLOSS.
• Be Creative
• Find opportunities to collaborate with
Mozilla developers
• irc.mozilla.org: #womoz
• www.womoz.org
1) IRC
2) Mailing Lists
3) Wiki
4) Blogs
5) Videos
6) Meetings
7) Regional seminars
8) Compitions
9) Tech. Challenges
10) Exiting Gifts
• Join Us…………
• Come up with your idea’s
• Let’s use it….. and make women community
proud……..
Presenter : Komal Gandhi
Accessory : Divya Thakre