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#fedora-flock-openqa: Women in Open Source - Speaker: Amita Sharma (amsharma)
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Meeting started by Amita at 14:36:57 UTC. The full logs are available at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-flock-openqa/2016-08-03/flock2016.2016-08-03-14.36.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Introduction  (Amita, 14:37:25)
  * Diversity initiative started last year  (Amita, 14:37:40)
  * Fedora Diversity Adviser position created to support this  (Amita,
    14:37:58)
  * Diversity Team helps support Diversity Adviser  (Amita, 14:38:12)
  * 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Conclusion / Live Q&A  (Amita, 14:52:50)
  * 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)
  * 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.




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