Women & Mozilla ("WoMoz") a community composed of members from different Open Source projects. We are mainly dedicated to improving women's visibility and involvement in Free/Open Source and Mozilla, and to increase the number of women contributors. Anyone can participate in this project, regardless of sex, age, job, etc. We are united by the common goal of promoting women's visibility and involvement in open source communities.

2. • For Freedom of speech
• Encouragement
• Awareness
• Motivation
• Come Forward Like a Leader

3. Mitchell Baker – Head &
Chairperson of Mozilla
Foundation, Chairperson Mozilla
Corporation
Satoko Takita –
Chairman Mozilla Japan

4. FOSS is often « unknown » and suffers from
misconceptions
•Women don’t have much knowledge on
programming.
•They don’t show their interest in technical
aspects.

5. • Women are playing key roles in corporate sectors.
• Indian women have come across a long way.
• They are very good at coding and programming and show
much interest in technical aspects when compared to few
men.
• Indian women come forward, and able to make situations
accordingly.
Adele Sangeeta
Goldberg Neelam
Talwar Dhawan
DeLisa Anita
Borg Sue V. M.
Alexander Rometty
Gardner

6. • Ubuntu Women
• GNOME Women
• PHP Women
• DrupalChix
• Linuxchix
• Debian Women

7. www.womoz.org
WoMoz!
What is WoMoz for?
Meeting point open to all, where women can meet other
FLOSS contributors (ML, IRC, wiki, blog)
GOAL?
Help contribute to FLOSS & Mozilla: localization, events,
QA, evangelism, community marketing, development...

8. You Need To Be a Coder:

9. • Localization • System Analysis
• Design • Quality Assurance
• Support • Documentation
• Events • Blogging
• Bugs
• Marketing
• Code

10. Men
95%
<= Women 5%
Source : FLOSSPOLS, 2004 - 2006

12. -No one knows
• Lack of interest or experience.
• Hesitation to come forward.
• Self-doubts and lack of confidence.
• Hard to get involved.
• Unwanted attention. (OMG a g1rl!!)

13. • You are not alone.
• We are here for you.
• Guides you develops you.
• Provide role models
• Give tutorials According your
interest topics
• Mentoring project

14. • Present your Idea’s.
• Share them
• Be Creative
• Increase Contribution % of women
in FLOSS.
• Find opportunities to collaborate with
Mozilla developers

15. 1) IRC 8) Compitions
2) Mailing Lists 9) Tech. Challenges
3) Wiki 10) Exiting Gifts
4) Blogs
5) Videos
6) Meetings
7) Regional seminars • irc.mozilla.org: #womoz
• www.womoz.org

16. • Join Us…………
• Come up with your idea’s
• Let’s use it….. and make
women community
proud……..

18. Presenter : Komal Gandhi
Accessory : Divya Thakre