User:Vanilla/Women of Fedora

= Fedora Women =

Fedora Women aims to provide a central forum and point of support for the often under-represented side of Fedora's Community.

A large portion of the Fedora userbase is made up of women. They are often under-represented within the community, with many people not even realizing how big a share of the community they are. The Fedora Women program aims to improve that representation and to provide a forum for the women of the Fedora Community.

Communicate and Get Involved
The fedora-women-list mailing list is available for email communications. Full archives are available.

The  IRC channel on freenode is always available for live chat.

Women of Fedora
Lady contributors to the Fedora Project can add their wiki homepages to the Category:Women category. The Category:Women page can be used to locate them, along with other Fedora Women pages.

Paste the Category:Women tag on the bottom of the wiki page that you desire to be tagged as such.

Joining the Fedora Project
Women who are interested in working with the Fedora Project can work with Fedora Women to get started. They can also work through the  Fedora Mentors  project to get assistance for every step. For more information about working with the Fedora Project, see these resources:


 * Join
 * FedoraBounties
 * Mentors

Press

 * fedora-announce-list Announcement
 * FedoraNEWS.ORG Appearance
 * Slashdot Announcement
 * ZDNet News Article

Other Resources

 * LinuxChix is a community of women working with Linux.
 * GNOME Women is a group dedicated to providing encouragement for women to contribute to GNOME.
 * KDE-Women is about building a community of female KDE contributors and users.
 * The Debian Women Project seeks to balance and diversify the Debian Project by actively engaging with interested women and encouraging them to become more involved with Debian.
 * Ubuntu-Women is a team functioning under Ubuntu to provide a platform and encouragement for women to contribute to Ubuntu.
 * Centroamericanas is a group of women working with Free Software in Central America. They have reached beyond the region. This is a Spanish speaking group.
 * Geek Feminism Wiki A wiki for all news about and for women in geek spaces.

= Fedora Women Project Mission =

Provide a forum for women in the Fedora Community
The project will provide a central forum where women in the Fedora Community can work together or socialize. In a community where women make up only a small percentage of the overall population, this will provide a way for women to get in touch with one another without the distractions that may appear elsewhere and will allow members of this smaller segment of the population to find one another.

Provide a stronger voice for the women of the Fedora Community
By allowing the women of the Fedora Community to coordinate with one another and speak in unison, this project will provide a larger collective voice that will make the will of the group more apparent to the rest of the community.

Avoid segregation
This project will attempt to bring some balance to a community that is made up of mostly men. It is not intended to separate women from the rest of the community, but rather to bring them closer to it by making sure they are included in the community voice.

Be fun
This project isn't meant to be just a dull channel for a few ideas, it is meant to be a fun and engaging environment that fosters participation and further development. This should never be forgotten.

= Fedora Women =

Fedora Women is a project designed to connect and assist women who are interested in using and contributing to Fedora.

Because it is estimated that only 1.5% of free and open source software (FOSS) developers are female, Fedora Women is crucial in both uniting and empowering women against gender-based stigmas, which are often considered detrimental to the success of female FOSS developers. Since being announced in July 2006, Fedora Women has striven to raise awareness of the female community - along with the many roles women have as contributors and users - within the Fedora Project.

Mission statement

 * Provide a forum for women in the Fedora Community.
 * The project provides a central forum where women in the Fedora Community can work or socialize with one another without the distractions that may appear elsewhere.


 * Provide a stronger voice for the women of the Fedora Community.
 * By allowing the women of the Fedora Community to coordinate with one another and speak in unison, this project provides a larger collective voice, making the will of the group more apparent to the rest of the community.


 * Avoid segregation.
 * This project attempts to bring some balance to a community that is made up of mostly men. It is not intended to separate women from the rest of the community, but rather to bring them closer to it by making sure they are included in the community voice.


 * Have fun!
 * This project is not meant to be just a dull channel for a few ideas. Fedora Women is, ideally, a fun and engaging environment that fosters participation and further development.

Get Involved
For more information, visit Join the Fedora Community.

Find a Mentor
For more information, visit Fedora Mentors.