Women in Open Source

Fedora Diversity
Women Contributions (Myths/Facts)
Initiatives
Gaps
How can you be the part

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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