Women in Open Source

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1. Diversity Women in Open Source Women in Open Source By

   By Amita Sharma Amita Sharma

2. Agenda • Fedora Diversity • Women Contributions (Myths/Facts) • Initiatives

   • Gaps • How can you be the part

3. Fedora Diversity • Initiative started few years back • Fedora

   Women Day • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig 0gnM9jsm0&feature=youtu.be • Contact - diversity@lists.fedoraproject.org

4. Women Day - Pune

5. Myths • Women are not interested in technology • Women

   can't do programming • Men developers are more talented than women • There is no work-life balance for women who work in the tech industry • So on and on...

6. Facts Let's see ( (feel feel) ) the facts...

7. Women in Technology

8. A Specialist

9. A Director

10. A Vice President

11. An Artist

12. A Designer

13. Winners

14. Facts • Women are very creative • Versatile • Powerful

    and Intelligent • Diversity increases success • Magical numbers

15. Initiatives • Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing •

    Women in Open Source Award • Outreachy • Google Summer of Code • PyLadies • Women in Drupal • Ada Initiative • OpenHatch

16. Gaps • Lack of knowledge • Encouragement • Support •

    Time commitment

17. Helping Pyramid “Let us help ourselves“

18. Find your interest http://whatcanidoforfedora.org/

19. Introduce yourself diversity@lists.fedoraproject.org

20. Q/A Thanks