Fosdem2011
- 1. Women & Mozilla Improve Diversity, Involve more women in FLOSS & Mozilla
- 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