What is the Women & Mozilla project? What have we done in 2010, and what will we do in 2011.

1. Women &
Mozilla
Improve Diversity, Involve more women in
FLOSS & Mozilla

2. Quick Overview
Some
numbers

3. Women in FLOSS
Men Men
72% 98%
Women We're here!
28% Women
2%
Proprietary FLOSS
Source : FLOSSPOLS, 2004 - 2006

4. But Why?

5. Some Reasons
• Discrimination / sexist jokes

6. Some Reasons
• Discrimination / sexist jokes
• Access to computers

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

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

9. FLOSS & Myths
FLOSS is often « unknown » and
suffers from misconceptions.

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

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

12. Rule #2: You're on your own
Fight for your
life

13. Rule #3: Degree Mandatory
Proove that
E = mc²

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

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

16. 2010 Roadmap
• Education
• Help in contribution
• More visibility: posts, interviews
• Empower women
• Surveys

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

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

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

20. External Survey
• Discrimination: Still big issue
•« Prefer no women and good code »
•« They can't drive, why should they
be able to program? »
•« They are too busy making
sandwiches »

21. External Survey

22. External Survey

23. External Survey

24. External Survey

25. WoMoz Tools
1) IRC
2) Mailing List
3) Wiki
4) Blog
5) Video
irc.mozilla.org : #womoz
www.womoz.org

26. Questions?
<delphine@mozilla.com>