• For freedom of speech

• Encouragement

• Awareness

• Motivation

• It’s a misbelief that women don’t have much knowledge on technology and programming.

• They don’t show interest in technical aspects.

• Women are playing key roles in corporate sectors

• Indian women have come across a long way

• They are very good at coding and programming and show much interest in technical aspects when compared to few men.

• Present your ideas

• Share them

• Increase contribution % of women in FLOSS

• Your not alone

• WoMoz is here for you

• Guides you, develops you

• Blog posts, interviews, video, Bonjour WoMoz...

• University students

• Women's groups

• Role models

Mitchell Baker – Head & Chairperson of Mozilla Foundation, Chairperson Mozilla Corporation

Satoko Takita – Chairman Mozilla Japan

• Ubuntu Women • GNOME Women • PHP Women • DrupalChix • Linuxchix • Debian Women

● What is WoMoz for? Meeting point open to all, where women can meet other FLOSS contributors (ML, IRC, wiki, blog) ● GOAL? Help contribute to FLOSS & Mozilla: localization, events, QA, evangelism, community marketing, development...

-WoMoz!

www.womoz.org

Source : FLOSSPOLS, 2004 - 2006

FOSS is often « unknown » and suffers from

misconceptions.

FOSS is often « unknown » and suffers from

misconceptions.

Free and open-source software

• You need to be a coder

• Localization

• Design

• Support

• Events

• Documentation

• Bugs

• Marketing • Code

You're on your own

Open Source Community

Degree Mandatory

• More visibility • No discrimination • Empower women • All contributions are valuable

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

• Don’t stick to just planning………………..

• Start implementing…. Womoz is with you!!!

• Men are also allowed in womoz group.

• Come up with your ideas………….

• Let’s use it…..and make women community proud….

• Hema Bhanu

• Email: hema.bhanuwinner@gmail.com

• Priyanka Nag

• Email: priynag@gmail.com