4. Our goals
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Increase gender diversity in mozilla
community and other FLOSS projects
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Given the actual figures, that means
"More women!"
5. Why is diversity
important?
« L'ennui naquit un jour de l'uniformité. »
Antoine Houdar de la Motte in « Les amis
trop d'accord »
« Uniformity leads to boredom » (loosy
translation)
6. Figures and facts
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Over 50% of humans are women
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In FLOSS, that's less ! (much less)
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Half of your potential users are women
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A product is the image of its creator(s)
8. How can women contribute to a
project
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Bugs reporting
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Code (Yes, women can code!)
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Design
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Documentation
That covers almost
everything
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Events organization
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Localisation
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Marketing
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Support ...
9. But a woman isn't yet another man
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Proud to be a woman
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Fresh eye / New look
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Organization
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Cohesion
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Feminine touch :-)
10. How to get women involved?
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No sexist jokes (Rule 101)
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Be social
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If you want women to come, make
them feel they are expected
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T-shirts... Yeah ! Let's talk about the T-
shirts.
12. What we did in the past
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Give talks in various events
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Communicate through different
channels (IRC, twitter, facebook page)
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Workshops
13. What will we do
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2013 will be Womoz revival
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We'll change our logo ;-)
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Actively recruit women already
contributing to FLOSS
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It's no use to preach to the converted
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Less talk, more action !
15. Get out and meet our audience
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Teach (schools, « coding goûters »,
webmaker events...)
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Talk about FLOSS
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Active versus passive users
16. Womoz reps
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Reps is an awesome program and reps
are awesome !
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Womoz who are not rep yet are
applying to the program
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Womoz local leaders (by region or
country)
17. Summary
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"Gee, Womoz, what do you want to do
today?"
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"The same thing we do every day, try
to take over the world!"
