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1. Southeast Women in Computing Celebration 2013
Enhance your Software Development Skills through
Open Source Participation
Rose Robinson
Changing the World

2. Who Is Rose?
22 years
2 teenagers
B.S. and M.S.
Mathematics

3. My Firsts
My first personal computer:
Commodore 64
My first programming
language:
Fortran and LISP
First time I used the
Internet:
1996

5. How Rose is Changing the World?
• Anita Borg Institute
– Inspiring & Connecting Women in Computing/Technology
– Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing
– Systers
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Open Source
Zamrize
Underrepresented Groups
Atlanta Technical Community
– Code for Atlanta
– Rails Girls Atlanta
– PyLadies Atlanta

6. Anita Borg Institute

7. Where We’ve Been
ANITA
BORG
STARTS
SYSTERS
ANITA
BORG
FOUNDS THE
INSTITUTE FOR
WOMEN IN
TECHNOLOGY
(IWT)
IWT IS
RENAMED:
ANITA BORG
INSTITUTE
(ABI)
GRACE
HOPPER
CELEBRATION
TRANSITIONS
TO ANNUAL
EVENT /
AUDIENCES
GROW
ABI BEGINS
TOP COMPANY:
ANNOUNCES
METRICS,
BENCHMARKING
GRACE
HOPPER
MOVES TO
LARGER VENUE;
ATTENDANCE
GROWS 42%
GHC INDIA
GROWS 2X
1987 • 1994 • 1997 • 2002 • 2003 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2009 • 2010 • 2011 • 2012
ANITA
BORG
& TELLE
WHITNEY
HOLD FIRST
GRACE
HOPPER
CELEBRATION
TELLE
WHITNEY
NAMED CEO
OF IWT
ABI
LAUNCHES
WOMEN OF
VISION
ABI
LAUNCHES
FIRST LARGESCALE STUDY.
# OF
PARTNERS
DOUBLE /
REVENUE
SPIKES
GOOGLE
MAKES LARGE
STRATEGIC
INVESTMENT
IN ABII
GRACE
HOPPER
ATTRACTS
ATTENDEES
FROM 42
COUNTRIES

8. Where We’re Going
LAUNCH
NEW
ONLINE
PRESENCE
EXPAND GLOBAL
OUTREACH
BEYOND NORTH
AMERICA
& INDIA
2013
DEVELOP
ONLINE TOOLS +
STRATEGIES FOR
WOMEN IN
COMPUTING
AND
ORGANIZATIONS
•
TRANSITION
TO GLOBAL
LEADER ON
WOMEN IN
COMPUTING
EXPAND OUR GLOBAL REACH IN
ASIA, SOUTH AMERICAN AND AFRICA
BUILD AWARENESS OF THE ISSUE ON PAR WITH
LEADING SOCIAL VENTURES LIKE CHARITY WATER
2014 • • • • • • • • and beyond • • • • • • • •
EXPAND
OUTREACH
TO
ADDITIONAL
AUDIENCESI
CREATE
CONTENT
THAT IS
SHARED ON
A VIRAL
LEVEL
DEVELOP RELATONSHIPS WITH 25% OF FORTUNE 500
IMPACT THE CULTURE AND DIVERSITY OF START-UP
TECH COMPANIES

9. How Systers Change The World
• Community
• Pass-It-On Award
• Open source participation
– Mailman
– Google Summer of Code

10. What is Open Source?
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Openness
Transparency
Collaboration
Diversity
Rapid Prototyping

11. Why Open Source?
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Collaborative
For everyone, anywhere around the world
Goal is to create better software
Licenses that gives FREE ACCESS TO CODE
Open standards
Best technology wins

12. Improve Software Development Skills
• Work on Real-World Projects
– Importance of Software Development Cycle
• Global Collaboration
– Open source is a global effort
• Generalization  Specialization
• Technical and Non-Technical
– Code, Design, Documentation, QA
• Code Repository (portfolio of your work)
– Github, Subversion, Launchpad

13. How Systers Change The World
• Open source participation
– Python Software Foundation
– Sahana Foundation
– Customized GNU Mailman (Email List)
– Google Summer of Code

14. Special Invitation

15. Speaker Information
Rosario (Rose) Robinson
rosario.robinson@gmail.com
@rosariorobinson
LinkedIn
Personal Website
Anita Borg Institute
rosarior@anitaborg.org
Systers
systers-keeper@systers.org

16. Open Source Communities
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Google Summer of Code
Sahana Foundation
Python
PyLadies
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Rails Bridge
Rails Girls
Ubuntu
Android
RedHat

17. Open Source Projects/Opportunities
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Systers GNU Mailman (customized)
GNU Mailman
Python Software Foundation
Sahana Eden
OpenMRS
Wikimedia Foundation
Wordpress
Drupal
World Wide Web Consortium (W3)
Code for America
Mifos (The community of open source micro finance)