Boss - bringing more diversity to tech

(Presented at Rasa Summit 2021 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fusUwIpltMg)
Not all beginner coders know what FOSS software is nor understand how most FOSS communities work or interact. Onboarding newcomers is challenging for most communities. Underrepresented groups and non-English speakers face additional difficulties to contribute to FOSS, such as language barriers and the confidence gap. To overcome these barriers, BOSS (Big Open Source Sister) was created. The program has three major objectives: introduce newcomers to FOSS, capacitate the under-represented in the coding community into technologies demanded by the software industry, and improve participants’ belief in their own competence. To do that, BOSS based their mentorship in chatbot development, using a Rasa boilerplate project, created by LAPPIS. This program won the Gnome Engagement Challenge second phase (5 finalists).

Transcript

1. Welcoming newcomers to FOSS Big Open Source Sister
2. Who I am Bruna Moreira I miss going out to dance and karaoke. But I have my cats around, so it's fine. Software engineer PyLadies BOSS Organizer Learning brazilian sign language #altText: Picture. White woman with short curly hair, smiling with an orange shirt.
3. BOSS - Big Open Source Sister Mentoring program for people from underrepresented groups. Focusing on welcoming and guiding them through the basics of contributing to open source communities.
4. BOSS - Big Open Source Sister LAPPIS rasa-boilerplate Mentoring program for people from underrepresented groups. Focusing on welcoming and guiding them through the basics of contributing to open source communities.
5. The community
6. LAPPIS rasa boilerplate LAPPIS rasa boilerplate repository FOSS project that implements features and integrations commonly used by RASA Brasil Community #altText: screenshot of the github repository of rasa-ptbr-boilerplate
7. Boilerplate examples Webchat Telegram Rocketchat RabbitMQ Kibana
8. The project
9. Learn about communities and technologies Learn about rasa boilerplate and create own chatbot Contribute to rasa boilerplate Autonomy to contribute to other FOSS comunities Project timeline #altText: icons representing tree growing phases. First seed, second nurture, third growth and lastly tree with fruits.
10. Learn about communities and technologies Project timeline #altText: icons representing tree growing phases. First seed, second nurture, third growth and lastly tree with fruits. Communities Communication Linux Versioning Remote work
11. Learn about rasa boilerplate and create own chatbot Project timeline #altText: icons representing tree growing phases. First seed, second nurture, third growth and lastly tree with fruits. Chatbots concepts RASA architecture RASA actions and python RASA slots Chatbot deployment
12. Contribute to rasa boilerplate Project timeline #altText: icons representing tree growing phases. First seed, second nurture, third growth and lastly tree with fruits. Work on open issues Open new issues Communicate on issues Fix bugs Work on documentation
13. Autonomy to contribute to other FOSS comunities Project timeline #altText: icons representing tree growing phases. First seed, second nurture, third growth and lastly tree with fruits. Find new communities Hacktoberfest
14. Project Online class Class video available Weekly mentorship Practice Pairing #altText: icons representing the program structure. Blackboard for online class. A video camera for the video classes available. Two people sitting in front of each other and talking for the weekly mentorship. A computer for the practices. A two people with arrows pointing to each other for the pairing. Link to online classes videos Link to presentations
15. First season
16. 12 weekly meetings We had...
17. Repository growth
18. • 12 Forks from BOSS repository Repository growth
19. • Pull Requests • Opened Issues Repository growth
20. • Commits during the project duration Repository growth
21. Weekly commits
22. Talk like a boss
23. Interviews #praTodosVerem: imagens de divulgação das entrevistas. Trabalhando com software livre com Clarissa Lima e Ludimila Belacruz. Participações em maratonas de programação com Giovanna Kobus. Documentação, escrita técnica e Outreachy com Anna e só. Carreira, Tech Lead e mentoria com Camilla Maciel e Renata Soares. Síndrome da impostora com Juliana Aguiar. Cibersegurança com Priscila Joranhezon. Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados com Camila Teixeira. Link para a playlist com entrevistas
24. Community engagement challenge #praTodosVerem: ícones de participação e premiação dos troféus da GNOME engagement challenge. No topo está escrito “Community engagement challenge”. Tem uma faixa na parte de baixo está escrito em cada um, da esquerda para direita: COMPETITOR, PHASE ONE WINNER, PHASE TWO WINNER.
25. https://github.com/orgs/BOSS-BigOpenSourceSister bigopensourcesister@gmail.com Thank you! to those who believed, helped and learnt in this journey. #praTodosVerem: Ilustração. Cinco pessoas marcadas por ícones de localização conectadas por linhas tracejadas enquanto o mundo gira atrás delas.