A talk delivered at the first CMS Africa Summit held in Nairobi on 7-8 March 2014. The talk explored the opportunities for women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and how Open Source can be a door into a career and/or hobby in these subjects.
The world needs Open Source - Ruth Cheesley - NorDevCon 2014Ruth Cheesley
In this talk, Ruth Cheesley explores the concepts behind Open Source and how it continues to make a real difference in the world, from architecture to healthcare and technology in general.
Chalk and cheese - how developers and designers can work together and not cru...Ruth Cheesley
A talk given by Ruth Cheesley of Virya Group, at the Innovation Martlesham breakfast on Tuesday, 21st April.
Teams can often be challenging places for developers and designers to work harmoniously - here are some of the tips we've learned - join us on the journey through a project to see how the roles change between the team members to ensure we arrive at the destination together, on time, and with enough fuel in the tank!
CMS Security - Ruth Cheesley - CMS Africa 2014Ruth Cheesley
This talk was delivered at the first CMS Africa summit in Nairobi, Kenya which was held between 7-8 March 2014. The talk explores basic security precautions to take when considering using a Content Management System.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla!Day UK - Joomla in your areaRuth Cheesley
A closing keynote encouraging delegates to consider what they can contribute to Joomla! in their local area, through the establishment of Joomla! User Groups (JUGs)
Joomla!Day Switzerland 2013 - Ruth Cheesley - SEO for MythbustersRuth Cheesley
Ruth Cheesley busts some popular myths about SEO in this 30 minute presentation which was delivered at Joomla!Day Switzerland on 21st September 2013 in Bern
Open source meets marketing - Presentation - OpenFest 2019Ruth Cheesley
A presentation at OpenFest 2019 in Sofia, Bulgaria on how the Open Source Marketing Automation platform Mautic enables you to enhance the digital experience for your customers.
Talk given by Ruth Cheesley at JoomlaDay UK 2017.
All too often websites are designed, built and deployed without any thought to how the business will track, capture and use the many sources of data. These sources of data available through many free tools can contribute vital information which allows a business to track sales from their origin and prove what parts of their online presence are delivering a return on investment.
In this talk, Ruth explores the concepts and methodology of planning and building websites with a data-first mentality.
The world needs Open Source - Ruth Cheesley - NorDevCon 2014Ruth Cheesley
In this talk, Ruth Cheesley explores the concepts behind Open Source and how it continues to make a real difference in the world, from architecture to healthcare and technology in general.
Chalk and cheese - how developers and designers can work together and not cru...Ruth Cheesley
A talk given by Ruth Cheesley of Virya Group, at the Innovation Martlesham breakfast on Tuesday, 21st April.
Teams can often be challenging places for developers and designers to work harmoniously - here are some of the tips we've learned - join us on the journey through a project to see how the roles change between the team members to ensure we arrive at the destination together, on time, and with enough fuel in the tank!
CMS Security - Ruth Cheesley - CMS Africa 2014Ruth Cheesley
This talk was delivered at the first CMS Africa summit in Nairobi, Kenya which was held between 7-8 March 2014. The talk explores basic security precautions to take when considering using a Content Management System.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla!Day UK - Joomla in your areaRuth Cheesley
A closing keynote encouraging delegates to consider what they can contribute to Joomla! in their local area, through the establishment of Joomla! User Groups (JUGs)
Joomla!Day Switzerland 2013 - Ruth Cheesley - SEO for MythbustersRuth Cheesley
Ruth Cheesley busts some popular myths about SEO in this 30 minute presentation which was delivered at Joomla!Day Switzerland on 21st September 2013 in Bern
Open source meets marketing - Presentation - OpenFest 2019Ruth Cheesley
A presentation at OpenFest 2019 in Sofia, Bulgaria on how the Open Source Marketing Automation platform Mautic enables you to enhance the digital experience for your customers.
Talk given by Ruth Cheesley at JoomlaDay UK 2017.
All too often websites are designed, built and deployed without any thought to how the business will track, capture and use the many sources of data. These sources of data available through many free tools can contribute vital information which allows a business to track sales from their origin and prove what parts of their online presence are delivering a return on investment.
In this talk, Ruth explores the concepts and methodology of planning and building websites with a data-first mentality.
Integrated Marketing Strategies with MauticRuth Cheesley
A case study by Ruth Cheesley of Virya Group. Exploring the use of Mautic as part of an integrated marketing approach at a business to business exhibition. Combining print media, online resources and an interactive game which challenged visitors to test their SEO knowledge.
Automating your marketing workflows in Joomla with MauticRuth Cheesley
In this presentation at JoomlaDagen 2016, Ruth Cheesley explores some of the features that Mautic can bring to your Joomla website, and what this can mean for your marketing workflows.
Fight for the Pixel - Innovation Martlesham - Ruth CheesleyRuth Cheesley
How can developers and designers work together during a project? What processes can help a team work effectively, communicating harmoniously and ensure delivery of a web project on time and on schedule?
Join us on this voyage of discovery to the Pixelles Island!
Custom Fields in Joomla - JoomlaDay UK 2016 - Marco DingsRuth Cheesley
This presentation covers an upcoming feature of Joomla - Custom Fields - and how they can help you to expand the core features of Joomla. Delivered by Marco Dings at JoomlaDay UK 2016.
Time to stop breaking your promises - dealing with 404's, broken URLs and pla...Ruth Cheesley
Change happens - it's inevitable. A URL is a promise, and when you change a site structure, you are responsible for keeping your promises and making sure those URLs are either redirected or killed off.
This presentation runs through how to manage URL changes by running audits, what to do with URLs which have changed and how to properly kill off URLs using the 410 error code.
Focused on Joomla, many of the resources are hosted on the Joomla Community Magazine.
Discovering Joomla! - Find out about Joomla's featuresRuth Cheesley
Want to know more about Joomla! - one of the most popular Content Management Systems in the world? This presentation walks you through some of the key features in the latest version of Joomla, and some of the aspects of the community.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla World Conference 2014 - How to prove you're worth a mi...Ruth Cheesley
Ruth from Virya Group [http://www.viryagroup.com] explores how you can monitor and track what happens on your websites, and assign monetary values, and use this to confidently quote expected return on investment to your clients? In this talk we will cover how to track conversions on your website using Google Analytics, Adwords and Tag Manager, and how to use this data in your sales process.
A gaze into the crystal ball of Google - social, local and predictive searchRuth Cheesley
Social signals and location awareness are having an ever increasing impact on search engine optimisation and making exciting things happen with predictive search. In this presentation we explore some of the changes happening in search engines, and what this means in real terms for us as consumers and business owners.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla! World Conference 2013 - What are you trying to say (a...Ruth Cheesley
Search is changing, focusing more on the meaning behind words and resources. Content around the web is connected to other content, people, resources and so forth - connectivity is key to understanding the world in which we live. This talk explores the developments in semantic and predictive search, and explains how this is relevant to businesses.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla! World Conference 2013 - Is your business intelligent?Ruth Cheesley
How do you know what's really going on with your business if you don't gather and analyse data about your website? This talk covers what information can be tracked, why you might want to analyse the data to inform business decisions, and some useful tools to help you along the way.
Suffolk Internet Marketing & SEO/M Specialists - Ruth Cheesley - Don't get in...Ruth Cheesley
A presentation exploring the key concepts behind the Google Hummingbird update and the factors that SEO, SEM, Copywriting and Internet Marketing specialists need to take away from this update
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla!Day South Africa - Developments in Semantic HTML - Add...Ruth Cheesley
A presentation on how to add semantic information to your website to improve your search engine listings and potentially develop your SEO, ranking position and visibility in search engines.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla!Day Kenya - Microdata, Authorship, and why you can't a...Ruth Cheesley
SEO is vital in today's economy, and search engines are starting to move towards a contextual, semantic understanding of content. Microdata allows you to insert contextual information into your websites - such as the author, location information, pricing and so forth - which search engines can use to create 'rich snippets' within their listings.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla!Day Kenya - Joomla 3, The Holy Grail?Ruth Cheesley
Is Joomla! 3.x the holy grail of web design? This presentation explored the features of Joomla! 3.x and how Joomla is responding to changes in web technology.
Microdata, Authorship, Google+ and Joomla! - Ruth Cheesley - Joomla! World Co...Ruth Cheesley
An introduction to microdata, schema.org, authorship and Google+ and its relevance to website developers. Delivered at the Joomla! World Conference on 17th November 2012, this presentation will be available in video format via the official Joomla! distribution channels in due course.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Integrated Marketing Strategies with MauticRuth Cheesley
A case study by Ruth Cheesley of Virya Group. Exploring the use of Mautic as part of an integrated marketing approach at a business to business exhibition. Combining print media, online resources and an interactive game which challenged visitors to test their SEO knowledge.
Automating your marketing workflows in Joomla with MauticRuth Cheesley
In this presentation at JoomlaDagen 2016, Ruth Cheesley explores some of the features that Mautic can bring to your Joomla website, and what this can mean for your marketing workflows.
Fight for the Pixel - Innovation Martlesham - Ruth CheesleyRuth Cheesley
How can developers and designers work together during a project? What processes can help a team work effectively, communicating harmoniously and ensure delivery of a web project on time and on schedule?
Join us on this voyage of discovery to the Pixelles Island!
Custom Fields in Joomla - JoomlaDay UK 2016 - Marco DingsRuth Cheesley
This presentation covers an upcoming feature of Joomla - Custom Fields - and how they can help you to expand the core features of Joomla. Delivered by Marco Dings at JoomlaDay UK 2016.
Time to stop breaking your promises - dealing with 404's, broken URLs and pla...Ruth Cheesley
Change happens - it's inevitable. A URL is a promise, and when you change a site structure, you are responsible for keeping your promises and making sure those URLs are either redirected or killed off.
This presentation runs through how to manage URL changes by running audits, what to do with URLs which have changed and how to properly kill off URLs using the 410 error code.
Focused on Joomla, many of the resources are hosted on the Joomla Community Magazine.
Discovering Joomla! - Find out about Joomla's featuresRuth Cheesley
Want to know more about Joomla! - one of the most popular Content Management Systems in the world? This presentation walks you through some of the key features in the latest version of Joomla, and some of the aspects of the community.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla World Conference 2014 - How to prove you're worth a mi...Ruth Cheesley
Ruth from Virya Group [http://www.viryagroup.com] explores how you can monitor and track what happens on your websites, and assign monetary values, and use this to confidently quote expected return on investment to your clients? In this talk we will cover how to track conversions on your website using Google Analytics, Adwords and Tag Manager, and how to use this data in your sales process.
A gaze into the crystal ball of Google - social, local and predictive searchRuth Cheesley
Social signals and location awareness are having an ever increasing impact on search engine optimisation and making exciting things happen with predictive search. In this presentation we explore some of the changes happening in search engines, and what this means in real terms for us as consumers and business owners.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla! World Conference 2013 - What are you trying to say (a...Ruth Cheesley
Search is changing, focusing more on the meaning behind words and resources. Content around the web is connected to other content, people, resources and so forth - connectivity is key to understanding the world in which we live. This talk explores the developments in semantic and predictive search, and explains how this is relevant to businesses.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla! World Conference 2013 - Is your business intelligent?Ruth Cheesley
How do you know what's really going on with your business if you don't gather and analyse data about your website? This talk covers what information can be tracked, why you might want to analyse the data to inform business decisions, and some useful tools to help you along the way.
Suffolk Internet Marketing & SEO/M Specialists - Ruth Cheesley - Don't get in...Ruth Cheesley
A presentation exploring the key concepts behind the Google Hummingbird update and the factors that SEO, SEM, Copywriting and Internet Marketing specialists need to take away from this update
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla!Day South Africa - Developments in Semantic HTML - Add...Ruth Cheesley
A presentation on how to add semantic information to your website to improve your search engine listings and potentially develop your SEO, ranking position and visibility in search engines.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla!Day Kenya - Microdata, Authorship, and why you can't a...Ruth Cheesley
SEO is vital in today's economy, and search engines are starting to move towards a contextual, semantic understanding of content. Microdata allows you to insert contextual information into your websites - such as the author, location information, pricing and so forth - which search engines can use to create 'rich snippets' within their listings.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla!Day Kenya - Joomla 3, The Holy Grail?Ruth Cheesley
Is Joomla! 3.x the holy grail of web design? This presentation explored the features of Joomla! 3.x and how Joomla is responding to changes in web technology.
Microdata, Authorship, Google+ and Joomla! - Ruth Cheesley - Joomla! World Co...Ruth Cheesley
An introduction to microdata, schema.org, authorship and Google+ and its relevance to website developers. Delivered at the Joomla! World Conference on 17th November 2012, this presentation will be available in video format via the official Joomla! distribution channels in due course.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Good afternoon, and thank you for inviting me to speak at CMS Africa
Joomla! Community Leadership Team for just over a year
User Group team,
Marketing Working Group
experiences within Open Source communities, and particularly around the topic of getting more women involved in technology.
Passionate about promoting Science Tech Eng Maths as an exciting and interesting career choice for women.
So, before the guys in the audience think this talk doesn't concern them, it does!
We're talking about open source communities, after all, and you're a part of that community as much as the women are.
If you don't currently have many women involved in your community, it's going to fall on your shoulders to invite and welcome women into the community. To set up those conditions to help women shine.
You are just as able to help make a community a welcoming place for women as the women in the community, so no snoozing in the back row!
So for starters, let's look at women in technology – the big picture, if you like.
Traditionally the STEM subjects – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics – have been under-represented by women. Some of the statistics are really quite staggering – less than 15% of positions in some areas are filled by women.
When you consider women who are in leadership roles in STEM organisations, the percentage is even smaller. In some cultures it's still unusual for a woman to be CEO – even in the UK this happens.
In the Open Source world we have a better proportion of involvement from women, but it is still very much a minority population in pretty much all projects.
The good news is that things do appear to be changing.
The first fundamental shift has to be in the perception of and respect for women, and the way in which society views the role of women, and this is changing.
Thankfully, there is light at the end of this tunnel and things have changed even within my short lifetime.
It is becoming more 'normal for women to be involved in technology-based subjects, and in the Open Source world, projects are actively reaching out to women. I recently started to get involved with the Ubuntu Women project, for example, and there are similar projects within the CMS communities.
There are lots of different ways that as a community we can work towards be supportive of all genders – and it's also important to recognise that at times we can be less supportive, sometimes without realising.
I was hoping I'd get to to spend the two weeks working in a shipyard, perhaps being able to see inside the workings of real ships, work alongside engineers and get a feeling for whether this was what I wanted to do.
Then my letter came through, and to my dismay, I was not being given an engineering placement, I was getting placed in a technical drawing office of an engineering firm.
Immediate problem here, I cannot draw for toffee at the best of times, let alone when they have to be mm perfect and straight lines!
So, for two weeks I had to try and draw schematics of salt water straining devices, when I wanted to be out in the engineering room tinkering with the engines. It was a real disappointment.
The sad thing is that directly or indirectly this happens all the time.
That was a pretty extreme case and nowadays hopefully would not happen, but here is a more subtle case.
A doctor noticed when doing ward rounds, when a question was asked that the male students would be raising their hands and the females would not.
Didn't mean they didn't know the answer. Even if he called them out, the women wouldn't put themselves forward unless nudged.
Decided to stop the hands up approach and choose the person to answer insteadI would probably never have put myself forward to join the CLT unless I was given a gentle nudge by somebody, given the confidence to go for it.
To me, as a 14 year old interested in engineering, I was furious. My male friends in my class were at Sunseekers Yachts working on the most amazing engines and ships, while I was trying to work out how to sharpen a pencil and draw lines that were straight.
You see, there was no real issue as to why I couldn't be placed in the same location, but there was at that time a societal conception that girls did not do hands-on engineering, especially in the male-dominated marine industry.
Gender shouldn't matter – it should be about whether you can do the job, but again we're talking about a community. People coming together, working together – and women are different to men. - communicate differently, feedback, ways of working, respect, cultural considerations
I take a lot of inspiration from the strong women I am fortunate to have as role models in my life– my nan, and my mum. These two women are just incredibly strong, and inspire me on a daily basis.
They encouraged me to widen my horizon and see where there were opportunities rather than complain that I wasn't being given them. If none exist they encouraged me to set up the conditions for them to come into being, to ask for help to make that happen.
There are so many opportunities within open source communities to get involved regardless of your gender – there are opportunities waiting for you, just jump in and get living your life!
Don't forget that if you don't have opportunities available to you, there is no reason why you can't build your own door.
This is definitely something that being involved with open source projects can help you to do. If you have access to a computer and an internet connection, you can get involved. GNOME, GSOC, Hackathons, PBF
You get to work with people from all over the world, learn some useful skills like communication, patience! Leadership, and of course make friends.
You'll often be working with the latest technologies – which you might not come across at university – and with people who are experts in their field who are willing to help you.
So at school I decided to figure out what was out there that would help me learn. I wanted to get involved, I wanted to follow my interests in technology, but I had no idea how..
I really believe that the open source community can make a difference here.
We have the potential to inspire other girls and women to get involved, have a go, and see what happens. Anybody can inspire others, regardless of your gender.
To do that, we need to have a community which supports people of all genders, from all walks of life, and encourages people to grow into their own tall poppies. When I was asked if I would join the Leadership Team, I jumped at the chance. Interestingly, it was another women who recommended me. I have the chance to inspire others
The Joomla community is actually pretty diverse, we have quite a lot of women involved within the Leadership Team and Working Groups, and around 20% of attendees at JWC identified as female. Here are some of the women who were recently interviewed by opensource.com in 'women in open source' week.
We have our own peer support groups on Facebook, which is an incredibly supportive environment which is helping women in our community to thrive.
We're encouraging involvement in programmes like the GNOME outreach programme and GSOC, and I would really love to invite any of you to come and find out how you might be able to get involved – you don't have to be a coder to contribute to an open source project.
You can be as involved as you want to be
Take things at your pace
Lots of areas – from coding to leadership and everything in between
Opportunity to learn from people who have a lot to give
The ethos is about sharing – give what you can, take what you need – you can share what you learn with others, paying it forward.
Just jump in – there are several representatives from different content management systems here today, why not find out how you can get involved?
We all have to start somewhere!
What are you interested in?
What do you need to support your development?
Who can you ask for help?
Who or what do you aspire to? Keep your inspirations alive!
How welcoming is your community for women? How supportive are you personally in helping to engage people from all walks of life, regardless of gender?
Is there anything we can do as an OS community to encourage more women both to get involved and stay involved? I'd love to talk with you about this later.
Finally, It can take a lot of courage for someone to knock on your door and ask for help or volunteer to get involved – please respect that!
please make sure they feel welcome, and perhaps consider a buddy system to help newcomers find their feet