Getting more Women into Open Source. Why the f*ck should we care?

Sources and helpful links: https://gist.github.com/anikalindtner/ea004aae7d155618956f

A TRUE STORY ABOUT OPEN SOURCE, CHANGE AND RAILS GIRLS SUMMER OF CODE.

This talk is a bit of a magic trick. It will solve a problem that seems pretty unsolvable right now: Getting more women in tech. We’ve all heard of more and more women leaving the tech industry. What’s happening? How did we get here? What can we do?

I’ll tell you a true story about 33 women from all over the world: directors, photographers, PR manager, linguists and many more that wrote Open Source code for 3 months. It’s a story about role models, community - and cat gifs. With the women focussed scholarship program Rails Girls Summer of Code we are writing history in Open Source and I will tell you how it’s done. How to raise $80k, how to build a community based project, that will keep on going and how to change 33 lives.

With this talk we will go on a short adventure in the tech jungle and see what we can achieve as a community and where we are failing. How we can get more women in Open Source, instead of losing them.

And why the f*ck we should care.

Transcript

1. Anika Lindtner @langziehohr Travis Foundation 
 (made by Travis CI)
4. GETTING MORE WOMEN
 IN OPEN SOURCE Why the f*ck should we care?
8. 
 Diverse teams are more creative, innovative and productive than others.
9. Average 
 11,5% 16,7% 16,8% 10,0% Average 
 11,5% Average 
 6,2% Return on 
 Investment capital Return on 
 equity Return on 
 sales http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/11/179827-the-data-on-diversity/fulltext
10. A diverse workforce can capture a greater share of the consumer market.
11. #win
12. #lose
13. -Lena Reinhard CEO of The Neighbourhoodie “Diversity is the default. 
 If it’s not diverse, 
 it’s broken ”
14. "I didn't know how to move forward. Things piled on over the years. ! There was a lot I had to put up with in the culture of tech. It just didn't seem worth it." Garann Means, Programmer
15. WOMEN ARE LEAVING
 THE INDUSTRY
19. • hostile work environment
 isolation 
 lack of carreer path
 lack of role models
21. women have to perform 2.5x as good as men to be considered equal. GOAL GOAL
22. © courtesy of skateistan.org - a non-profit organization that uses skateboarding as a tool for empowerment and education. STEREOTYPES
24. TL;DR: 
 DIVERSITY IS
 AWESOME.
25. WHAT CAN WE DO?
26. 1CREATE SUPPORTIVE
 ENVIRONMENT RECOGNIZE WORK INVEST IN TRAINING support
27. 2ACCEPT MAKE CONSCIOUS COUNTERACT bias
29. 4 women MAKE YOURSELF VISIBLE BE A ROLE MODEL SUPPORT OTHERS
30. 4 let’s all CAUSE DISRUPTION BREAK STEREOTYPES
32. http://rails-girls-map.herokuapp.com/ Provides a long term learning goal for the world wide movement that is 
 Rails Girls.
33. flickr.com/danielpuglisi a community-driven 
 initiative
34. full-time three months sponsored Scholarships
35. 162 women applied in 2014
36. supported by Sponsors!
37. 34 teams 20 sponsored, 14 volunteering
38. Some of the projects Hackety Hack Bundler Rails Sinatra
 Species+ RailsApps Diaspora* ! Speakerinnen Conductor Rubinius Spree impress.js Participate Padrino !
40. Ruby Monstas
41. RGSoC 2013
43. over 90 % of the Rails Girls Summer of Code alumni are now working in Tech Alumni 8 % of them founded own start-ups
45. railsgirlssummerofcode.org/campaign
48. IT’S SOCIAL JUSTICE.
49. THANK YOU. Anika Lindtner @langziehohr
50. railsgirlssummerofcode.org/campaign Make Rails Girls Summer of Code 2015 happen: Scribbles made by Rebecca Conrad (@bioshrimp)
51. • Test your bias: https://implicit.harvard.edu/ implicit/education.html • List of female speakers: speakerinnen.org • RailsGirlsSummerofCode.com • foundation.travis-ci.com • “Make the unconscious conscious” https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW5s_-Nl3JE Helpful links & sources
52. • http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/ 2014/11/179827-the-data-on-diversity/ fulltext • Stemming the Tide- Why women are leaving Engineering: http://1.usa.gov/1wdjpRb • Does Gender matter? Commentary from . Ben A. Barres in: NATURE http://bit.ly/ 1KB9paU • A collection of studies about Women in Tech: http://t.co/YpsPd5mWm8 !