That is valuable input. It seems, I can't update my submission ATM.
On 04/06/2016 02:18 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote:
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From: "Amita Sharma" <amsharma@redhat.com>I like how María's edits keep it closer to Fedora. I also think it's important not to say that women (or any other minorities) participating in open source have an obligation to help other women / minorities. There are many demands and challenges these people already experience, and any way they want to allocate their time contributing to open source is valuable. So I like how the changes make it sound as an opt-in activity.
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On 03/31/2016 05:58 PM, María Leandro wrote:
Hey Amita!! Thank you for sharing.
I have a couple of suggestions.
Hello Maria,
yeah, thanks!
I would change completely the first paragraph. It seems when I read it that
"we live oppressed by men" and we definitely don't want to send that
message. I wouldn't feel comfortable saying that we need to stand up because
numbers or because reasons that somehow might give the sense that we are
being oppressed. It's like saying that we need to polish the world to be
part of it, and that's far from true. I wouldn't also use the term "poor"
since we do have girls that don't have any contact with technology in
regular environments. And last (and I know it won't like many) I won't like
to use the term feminist, we are here to help people (in this case Women) to
join us, not to create a movement to defend women's rights, there are other
places to do so; our task should be merely informative and educative. We are
helping people to learn about Fedora and use it for good.
I certainly don't mean to say "we live oppressed by men" :) . Just my way to
express the gender ratio in community.
And, I used numbers in sense of surveys results, we are going to have.
Instead, I would start the abstract saying something like: (using mostly of
what Amita wrote)
"It's wonderful to be a women.
Women have been participating in social, political, economic, cultural and
technological fields for many decades and it's time to push it farther.
Even if Fedora has a raising number of females participating actively in our
community, we aim to increase this statistics by creating and encouraging
programs where Women interested in IT can develop their personal and
technical skills and make a path for themselves in the IT field.
Every tiny step counts, like provide workshops for schoolgirls in areas with
difficulties, reaching out to college girls to spread knowledge and
opportunities about open source, educating them about Ada Initiative, the
GNOME Project’s Outreach Program for Women, OpenHatch and Women in Drupal,
pyladies, GSOC. There are so many nice outreach programs for women in open
source, we just need to spread the knowledge and motivate every women out
there to join the movement. There are lots of things to do, it is not just
coding in fact, you can do many different plus exciting things in open
source i.e. writing, documentation, designing, translation, testing etc.
Our idea is to make a helping-pyramid where each Fedora Woman can be the
mentor of 2 more Women, once these new feel comfortable enough, each one
will take 2 more Females, and continue the work to make our numbers grow."
yeah, these are exactly, what my thought lines are :)
I wanted to point out that the Ada Initiative closed last year. During its time, it created a lot of helpful materials, that are available under a Creative Commons license, such as the AdaCamp Tooolkit about organizing inclusive conferences, the Ally Skills Workshop materials for teaching men how they can support women in open technology and culture, and the Impostor Syndrome Training to help people, particularly women, recognize and squash a feeling of being an impostor. It housed its work on conference anti-harassment policies on the Geek Feminism Wiki. It also has a lot of insightful writing in its blog archives. So in the context of this proposal it might be more appropriate to say "teaching them about the work of the Ada Initiative".
Also, the Outreach Program for Women moved from the GNOME Project to Software Freedom Conservancy last year, and is now called Outreachy. The program was renamed because it expanded to other people underrepresented in open source. In particular, in addition to being open to women world-wide, it's now also open to people of color who are underrepresented in the U.S. technology.
I will definitely consider these points while making my slides.
Thanks Marina!
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Thanks,
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Let me know what you think and if the input was helpful at all :)
Indeed, I will keep all in mind while creating slides :)
Keep the great work Amita!
love and hug!
Thanks,
Ami
2016-03-31 1:57 GMT-04:30 Amita Sharma < amsharma@redhat.com > :
Hello Everyone,
As promised, below is my submission for flock. Feel free to pitch in to add
more value.
women in open source
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My paper will highlight different aspect of diversity and how fedora is
supporting diversity in all terms, but my paper is focused more on women.
It is wonderful to be a women. A powerful gender that supports the rights and
equality of women.
Be it social, political, economic, cultural or open source - women should
have equal rights.
But, If we look at the percentage of women participation in any filed, be it
open source or any other field, ratio is damn poor. We, being in the
eligible category to guide other women for open source culture, should take
steps forward to make this ratio better. I know, taking initiative in this
man dominant world, is not easy. But together, we can and we will make the
difference. Every tiny little step counts, like educating poor female
children, reaching out to college girls to spread knowledge and
opportunities about open source, educating them about Ada Initiative, the
GNOME Project’s Outreach Program for Women, OpenHatch and Women in Drupal,
pyladies, GSOC. There are so many nice outreach programs for women in open
source, we just need to spread the knowledge and motivate every women out
there to join the movement. There are lots of things to do, it is not just
coding in fact, you can do many different plus exciting things in open
source i.e. writing, documentation, designing, translation, testing etc.
It is duty of every established women in open source to take a pledge that
she will educate/help/motivate atleast 2 other women in her life span to
join open source community and make this open source culture more lovable
and beautiful and little more feminist.
Thanks & Regards,
Amita(Ami)
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