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 :)
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(a)redhat.com
<mailto: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
=========================
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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