Flock Submission for Women in open source.
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)