#fedora-flock-openqa: Women in Open Source - Speaker: Amita Sharma (amsharma)

Meeting started by Amita at 14:36:57 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Introduction (Amita, 14:37:25)
    1. Diversity initiative started last year (Amita, 14:37:40)
    2. Fedora Diversity Adviser position created to support this (Amita, 14:37:58)
    3. Diversity Team helps support Diversity Adviser (Amita, 14:38:12)
    4. Fedora Women Day, July 15 (and a few other dates across the world), four total events in India, Albania, and Greece (Amita, 14:38:47)

  2. Myths (Amita, 14:39:01)
    1. Women not interested in tech (Amita, 14:39:50)
    2. Women can't program (Amita, 14:39:59)
    3. Men developers more talented than women developers (Amita, 14:40:11)
    4. No work-life balance for women who work in the tech industry (Amita, 14:40:28)
    5. And so on... (Amita, 14:40:31)

  3. Women in Technology (Amita, 14:41:07)
    1. === Women contributors in our communities === (Amita, 14:45:41)
    2. Marina Z., Outreach Specialist at Red Hat (Amita, 14:45:47)
    3. Denise Durmas (Amita, 14:45:58)
    4. Marie Nordin, badges.fedoraproject.org (Amita, 14:46:19)
    5. Mo Duffy, mizmo, Design Team lead (Amita, 14:46:30)
    6. Director of Tech @ Dropbox, contributor in open source (Amita, 14:47:09)
    7. Point of these is not women from history, but contributors from everyday life (Amita, 14:47:40)

  4. Facts (Amita, 14:47:44)
    1. Women are creative, versatile, powerful and intelligent (Amita, 14:47:59)
    2. Diversity increases success (Amita, 14:48:05)
    3. Magical numbers (Amita, 14:48:11)
    4. Women in Flock: 6 in 2015, 15 in 2016 (Amita, 14:48:45)

  5. Initiatives (Amita, 14:48:50)
    1. Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (Amita, 14:48:58)
    2. Women in Open Source Award (Amita, 14:49:06)
    3. Outreachy (Amita, 14:49:09)
    4. Google Summer of Code (Amita, 14:49:15)
    5. And more... (Amita, 14:49:17)

  6. Gaps (Amita, 14:49:23)
    1. 1. Lack of knowledge (Amita, 14:49:31)
    2. 2. Encouragement (Amita, 14:49:34)
    3. 3. Support (Amita, 14:49:38)
    4. 4. Time commitment (Amita, 14:49:43)

  7. Helping Pyramid (Amita, 14:51:50)
    1. "Let us help ourselves" (Amita, 14:51:56)

  8. Conclusion / Live Q&A (Amita, 14:52:50)
    1. Q: "At Fedora Women Day, you said many were interested but didn't know what to do or where to get involved. But men also could use encouragement / better to have genderless event? (Amita, 14:53:46)
    2. A: Event is welcome to all participants and invite was open to men. Point isn't to have a majority of the minority group. Many conferences and get-togethers where everyone is participating, but participation of women is less. Environment where women can work with others can be encouraging and motivating to participate. (Amita, 14:54:41)


Meeting ended at 15:28:35 UTC (full logs).

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