• 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