Fosdem2011

Women & MozillaImprove Diversity, Involve more women in FLOSS & Mozilla

Quick Overview Somenumbers

Women in FLOSS Men Men 72% 98% Women Were here! 28% Women 2% Proprietary FLOSS Source : FLOSSPOLS, 2004 - 2006

But Why?

Some Reasons• Discrimination / sexist jokes

Some Reasons• Discrimination / sexist jokes• Access to computers

Just look M W 1 usest 12 14.5 st1 bought 15 19 Source: FLOSSPOLS, 2004 - 2006

Some Reasons• Discrimination / sexist jokes• Access to computers• Few women study IT / CS fieldsThe problem concerns IT in general, not only FLOSS

FLOSS & MythsFLOSS is often « unknown » andsuffers from misconceptions.

Rule #1: Codito, ergo sum You have to code

• Localization • Documentation• Design • Bugs• Support • Marketing• Events • Code • ...

Rule #2: Youre on your own Fight for your life

Rule #3: Degree Mandatory Proove that E = mc²

How to Change Things• More visibility• No discrimination• Empower women• All contributions are valuable

Women & Mozilla● Mozilla now has WoMoz : www.womoz.org● Open to all● Goals : help women contribute, attractmore women, give them more visibility

2010 Roadmap• Education• Help in contribution• More visibility: posts, interviews• Empower women• Surveys

To-Do 2011• More empowering women: • Workshops, Add-ons, Games...• Continue: Visibility, education, presentations, Diversity Charter...• More women in Moz

Survey Results• Survey 1: internal → women in local Mozilla communities• Survey 2: external → entire Moz community

Internal Survey• Reach out to women• Not enough in dev!• TIME = Big Issue• < 10% in communities

External Survey• Discrimination: Still big issue •« Prefer no women and good code » •« They cant drive, why should they be able to program? » •« They are too busy making sandwiches »

External Survey

WoMoz Tools1) IRC2) Mailing List3) Wiki4) Blog5) Videoirc.mozilla.org : #womoz www.womoz.org

Questions?<delphine@mozilla.com>

Fosdem2011

by Delphine Lebédel on Feb 09, 2011

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