Fwd: [Fedora Women] Women in Computing and Fedora - CommBlog article

[Justin W. Flory]

Hi all,

Below is a recently published article on the Community Blog about women
in computing and Fedora's history and current activities involving outreach.

I think is something that should definitely be shared to all Fedora
social media pages. I'm not sure on what the policy on Red Hat social
media is, but I could also see this being something great to put out on
one of the other Red Hat accounts too.

Feel free to share this around too, I think this is a great summary of
the work being done in Fedora to improve diversity and increase
outreach. Thanks all!

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Subject: 	[Fedora Women] Women in Computing and Fedora - CommBlog article
Date: 	Fri, 22 Jan 2016 19:21:10 +0530
From: 	Bhagyashree Uday 
To: 	[e-mail]

Hello all,

jflory7 and I have recently published an article about Women in
Computing and Fedora on Community Blog. Do take a look at it :

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/women-in-computing-and-fedora/

It talks about :

*Diversity efforts in Fedora
*Anisha Narang's Grace Hopper experience
*Women's involvement in Fedora
*New opportunities for women like Outreachy
*Snippet of an interview with Fedora Diversity Adviser, Maria "tatica"
Leandro detailing her inputs on the current diversity situation in
Fedora as well as her goals and vision as Diversity Adviser.(A full
interview is scheduled for later)
*Call for Action - How can you help ?

Looking forward to knowing your inputs,

Bee

[Fedora Women] Women in Computing and Fedora - CommBlog article

[Sylvia Sánchez]

Hi!
I added myself to the wiki. I'm not sure what use, if any, has this
but well... I'm a woman and I'm here!
Anyway, I'll share this on my own WordPress and on Facebook. Someone
might feel interested.

Cheers,
Sylvia

[Fedora Women] Women in Computing and Fedora - CommBlog article

[Justin W. Flory]

On 01/22/2016 11:24 AM, Sylvia Sánchez wrote:
> Hi!
> I added myself to the wiki. I'm not sure what use, if any, has this
> but well... I'm a woman and I'm here!
> Anyway, I'll share this on my own WordPress and on Facebook. Someone
> might feel interested.

Awesome, thanks for adding yourself and sharing the article, Sylvia!
There's a lot of awesome stuff ahead in 2016. :)

--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
[e-mail]

[Fedora Women] Women in Computing and Fedora - CommBlog article

[Bhagyashree Uday]

Hi Sylvia ,

We currently do not have any data on women contributors in the whole Fedora
Project - and with this list, we primarily aim to create a database of
women contributors in Fedora. Once we have even a rough idea of
contributors and their contribution areas - we can then work on  creating a
concrete strategy to increase diversity. I also feel that this list will
help bring light to the women contributors and will provide a database for
women to connect to and support each other - all the goals of Fedora women.

Thanks for adding your name to the list :)

Bee

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Justin W. Flory  wrote:
> On 01/22/2016 11:24 AM, Sylvia Sánchez wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I added myself to the wiki. I'm not sure what use, if any, has this
> > but well... I'm a woman and I'm here!
> > Anyway, I'll share this on my own WordPress and on Facebook. Someone
> > might feel interested.
>
> Awesome, thanks for adding yourself and sharing the article, Sylvia!
> There's a lot of awesome stuff ahead in 2016. :)
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Justin W. Flory
> [e-mail]
>
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[Fedora Women] Women in Computing and Fedora - CommBlog article

[Neville A. Cross]

> > On 01/22/2016 11:24 AM, Sylvia Sánchez wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > I added myself to the wiki. I'm not sure what use, if any, has
> >
> > this
> > > but well... I'm a woman and I'm here!
> > > Anyway, I'll share this on my own WordPress and on Facebook.
> >
> > Someone
> > > might feel interested.

I have trying to make women collaborating in Fedora to be aware of this
list, but it is hard for a male to tell a woman what to do in this
regard. I look for women to take lead on this but I was not been
successful. I sponsored the local FOSS community in Managua, Nicaragua
with a salon, so women can meet no mater which distro or project. They
failed to reach critical mass. As I see it, there is no enough women to
be able to answer the questions that the same group ask. So after a few
meetings they lose interest. Having fail once, does not mean that I
will give up. I haven't find other opportunity to help this issue.

Neville