mozilla women(womoz)
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Women and Technology
Mozilla Womens
MozCamp Kashmir24th-Apr-2014
Kashmir Mozilla Club
www.womoz.orgMozilla Womens Official
website
• For freedom of speech
• Encouragement
• Awareness
• Motivation
Why a Separate Section for Women?
• It’s a misbelief that women don’t have muchknowledge on technology and programming.
• They don’t show interest in technical aspects.
Myth: Women's Don’t have much knowledge on Programming
• Women are playing key roles in corporatesectors
Indian women have come across a longway
They are very good at coding and programming and show much interest in technical aspects when compared to few men.
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Reality :
• Present your ideas
• Share them
• Increase contribution % of women in FLOSS
Fly High with WoMoz
• Your not alone
• WoMoz is here for you
• Guides you, develops you
We are with you
• Blog posts, interviews,WoMoz...
video, Bonjour
• University students
• Women's groups
• Role models
Who are collaborated with WoMoz?
Mitchell Baker – Headof Mozilla Foundation,
& ChairpersonChairperson
Mozilla Corporation
Satoko Takita – ChairmanMozilla Japan
Famous womens in FLOSS
• Ubuntu Women• GNOME Women• PHP Women• DrupalChix• Linuxchix• Debian Women
Other Women Communities
-WoMoz!
www.womoz.org
● What is WoMoz for? Meeting point open to all,
where women can meet other FLOSScontributors (ML, IRC, wiki, blog)
● GOAL?Help contribute to FLOSS & Mozilla:localization, events, QA, evangelism, community marketing,development...
What about Mozilla?
Source : FLOSSPOLS, 2004 - 2006
Shocking Statistics
FOSS is often « unknown » and suffers frommisconceptions.
Free and Open-Source Software
Myths about FOSS
• You need to be a coder
Myth 1
•••••••
DesignSupport Events Documentation BugsMarketingCode
Solution
Localization
You're on your own
Myth 2
Open Source Community
Solution
Degree Mandatory
Myth 3
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More visibilityNo discriminationEmpower womenAll contributions are valuable
How to Change Things?
1)2)3)4)5)••
IRCMailingWikiBlogVideo
List
irc.mozilla.org : #womozwww.womoz.org
WoMoz Tools
• Come up with your ideas………….
• Let’s use it…..and make women communityproud….
Let’s Rock
Thank You
MozCamp Kashmir24th-Apr-2014
Kashmir Mozilla Club