Launch of WoMoz Mombasa
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The document summarizes a presentation by Alifiyah Ganijee about WoMoz, a community of women involved in open source and Mozilla projects. The agenda includes an overview of WoMoz, Mozilla projects, challenges facing women in tech, women's entrepreneurship, and inspiring videos. It discusses the goals of promoting women's visibility and involvement in open source software and Mozilla contributions. It also highlights myths about women in tech and provides examples of famous women contributors to FOSS and from Africa to show that women can succeed in these fields.
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Launch of WoMoz Mombasa
- 1. WoMoz Mombasa Presenter: Alifiyah Ganijee Mozilla Representative Twitter: @alifyaganijee
- 3. Agenda 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Overview of WoMoz…What?Why?How? Mozilla projects Problems facing women in tech Women & Entreprenuership Some inspiring videos Let’s have fun! Presenter: Alifiyah Ganijee Twitter: @alifyaganijee
- 4. WoMoz? Women in Mozilla & FOSS We are 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. Presenter: Alifiyah Ganijee Twitter: @alifyaganijee
- 5. Why WoMoz? 1. More women on earth 2. Products are a reflection of those who create them 3. Awareness & Motivation 4. Diversity fundamentals in teams 5. Entrepreneurship & leadership Presenter: Alifiyah Ganijee Twitter: @alifyaganijee
- 6. Numbers • Few in FLOSS • Few in Mozilla • Even less developers Why? • Discrimination / sexist jokes • Access to computers • Few women in IT / CS fields
- 7. Myths Women can’t understand Computer Science
- 8. Myths You don’t need to be a geek!
- 10. Famous women in FOSS Mitchell Baker – Head & Chairperson of Mozilla Foundation, Chairperson Mozilla Corporation
- 11. Famous women in FOSS Satoko Takita – Chairman Mozilla Japan
- 12. Famous women in FOSS • • • • • • Ubuntu Women GNOME Women PHP Women DrupalChix Linuxchix Debian Women
- 13. Famous women in Africa Juliana Rotich is the co-founder of Ushahidi, open-source software for collecting and mapping information -- and of iHub, a collective tech space in Nairobi, Kenya. She is a TED Senior Fellow.
- 14. Famous women in Africa Ory Okolloh is a Kenyan activist, lawyer, and blogger. She currently holds the position of Director of Investments at Omidyar Network. She was formerly the Policy Manager for Africa with Google
- 15. Famous women in Africa Shikoh Gitau is the Founder of Ummeli, an application that helps people find jobs and secure interviews, Googler
- 16. Famous women in Africa Are you the next one?
- 18. Thank you!