Ada census of women in the open technology and culture community
The Ada Initiative is conducting a survey of women's participation in open technology and culture communities. The survey is open to both men and women. The survey takes about five minutes to complete. Take it here, and please spread the word! http://adainitiative.org/projects/census/
Wikipedia's new Gendergap mailing list
Gendergap -- Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
About Gendergap
Wikimedia data indicates that the percentage of female contributors in Wikimedia projects is as low as 13%. This mailing list is intended to be a central forum for discussing strategies and approaches that could be used to increase female participation in Wikimedia projects.
The Female Founder Fellowship offers fellowship, grants and incubation program, free of charge
The Female Founder Fellowship,Founder Institute's offers fellowship, grants and incubation program, free of charge.
Many of the deadlines are fast approaching. Visit, http://www.founderinstitute.com/posts/289 and apply at http://founderinstitute.com/join.
The People Who Support Linux: Linux Skills Land Job for This Linux Lady
Deborah Wazir says Linux helped her land her current job.
She says she was first introduced to Linux in the late 90s in the form of a Knoppix Live CD that she glanced at and put away. Ten years later a recruiter refused to submit her resume for a position because it didn't specifically say she had Linux experience (even though she had 20+ years of Unix experience).
Diversity, Freedom and Education at the Open World Forum
The starting point of the track titled Think Tank - Open Diversity Summit: Why women matter? was more or less "Women constitute 25 to 30 per cent of wider engineering community, but only 1/2% in Free/Open Source software development. Why, and what are the consequences?". Here are, as food for thought, some comments from ladies attending the track:
(in FOSS) women are told to start with documentation, translation and similar support activities. We must not settle for that, there's more to do.
This is really a cultural issue, quite different from country to country. I (background: highly educated Indian family) went to a software engineering college in the USA where I had zero white women as classmates.
GNOME Outreach Program for Women internships
This page contains all the information about the GNOME Outreach Program for Women internships that are planned for December 15, 2010 through March 15, 2011 to coincide with the Southern Hemisphere summer. Please help us spread the word about the program!
Schedule
* July 12 - September 7: individual mentors and companies add their projects; participants can start getting in touch with mentors, learning about and contributing to projects
* September 7: application form made available on this page
* September 7 - October 25: participants need to get in touch with at least one project and make a contribution to it
* October 25: application deadline
* November 3: we'll announce accepted participants
* December 15 - March 15: internships period
Read the rest at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2010
