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Fedora Women

Promoting women's involvement in the Fedora Project

IRC	#fedora-women on irc.freenode.net
Mailing list	women@lists.fedoraproject.org

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,^[1] 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,^[2] 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.

On the Fedora Community Blog, a reflection and plan for reaching out to more women contributors was shared in the Women in Computing and Fedora article.

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

Fedora Women is open to any woman who is looking for a supportive group within the Fedora Community. For this reason, involvement with the Fedora Project - whether as a user or a contributor - is strongly encouraged.

New to Fedora? There is a vast amount of information available regarding the roles and expectations of potential contributors to the Fedora Community. If you are interested in joining the Fedora Project, you should consider the many positions available and assess where your particular talents would best serve the community.

If you're uncertain of how to proceed, there are a series of Join pages for all of the different sub-projects and teams in Fedora. Before choosing a place to get involved, it's important to make sure you join an area of the Project you are excited about and interested to participate in. Especially in open source, it's important for you to work on things that interest you personally. You can find the Join pages for the following sub-projects and groups.

Ambassadors: Representing Fedora as advocates in the field
CommOps: Community Operations, or CommOps, helps improve communication and community infrastructure across the Project
Design: Working on graphics and designs for Fedora
Documentation: Writing documentation on different pieces of Fedora
EPEL: A special interest group working on packaging software for enterprise Linux
Infrastructure: Maintaining our infrastructure and writing software to integrate with it
Internationalization: Help improve and test software to be more multilingual friendly
Localization: Translating interfaces and software in Fedora to new languages
Marketing: Creating strategy of spreading Fedora to new users and audiences
Magazine: Writing how-to style pieces and news article about topics in Fedora and open source
Package Maintainers: Writing new software and packaging other people's work in Fedora
Quality Assurance: Testing the software in Fedora and making sure it is good to go
Websites: Developing the websites used across the Fedora Infrastructure

You can also find a list of other areas to participate in on the Join page.

GNOME Outreachy

Fedora participates in the GNOME Outreachy program, formerly known as Outreach Program for Women (OPW). Outreachy was inspired by both the Google Summer of Code and also how few women applied for it in the past. Different free and open source software (FOSS) projects or organizations can apply to offer paid internships as part of the program. This program is an internship program specifically targeted at women, people of color, and other under-represented groups. Our goal is to increase participation in Fedora. This is a continuation of the very successful GNOME Outreach Program for Women and we are running the program in conjunction with GNOME and other prominent open source projects.

Fedora participated in Outreachy 2015 and plans to participate in Outreachy 2016 as well. Read the wiki pages for more details about Fedora's participation in Outreachy, how to get involved, and where to apply.

Locate Nearest Help

Name	Location
Nitesh Narayan Lal	Delhi, India
María "tatica" Leandro	Venezuela - LATAM
Jehane	Paris, France
Aeva Palecek	Chicago, USA
Ankur	Hatfield, UK

Know Our Existing Women Contributors

Name	Location
A Mani	Kolkata, India
Robyn	Phoenix, AZ, USA
María "tatica" Leandro	Venezuela - LATAM
Aeva	Chicago, OH, USA
Ruth	Raleigh, NC, USA
Mizmo	Boston, MA, USA
Amita Sharma	Pune, India
Bee (Bhagyashree)	Guwahati, India
Lailah (Sylvia Sánchez)	Montevideo, Uruguay
Jona Azizaj	Tiranë, Albania - EMEA
Amanda Carter	Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Julita Inca	Lima, Peru
Aura Lila Gutiérrez	Nicaragua, LATAM
Aly Yuliza Machaca Mamani	Peru, LATAM
K Rain Leander	Groningen, Netherlands, EMEA
Trishna Guha	Kolkata, India
Ana Mativi	Brazil - LATAM

Upcoming Events

Fedora Women Day 2016 - July 15, 2016

External links

Women in Computing and Fedora - Reflection and plans for improving diversity in Fedora
Arch Linux Women
Geek Feminism Wiki
GNOME Women
KDE-Women
LinuxChix
The Debian Women Project
Ubuntu-Women
(Dead since 2012, Spanish) Centroamericanas (wayback link)

Notes

[1] Sexism: Open Source Software's Dirty Little Secret

[2] Introducing Fedora Women

[1]

[2]

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-= Fedora Women =
+{{Infobox group
+| name = Fedora Women
+| caption = Promoting women's involvement in the Fedora Project
+| irc = [irc://irc.freenode.net/#fedora-women #fedora-women] on [http://www.freenode.net irc.freenode.net]
+| mailing_list = women@lists.fedoraproject.org
+| mailing_list_subscribe = https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/women
+| mailing_list_archive = http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/women/
+}}
-Fedora Women aims to provide a central forum and point of support for the often under-represented side of Fedora's Community.
+'''Fedora Women''' is a project designed to connect and assist women who are interested in using and contributing to [[Fedora]].
-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.
+Because it is estimated that only 1.5% of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open_source_software free and open source software] (FOSS) developers are female,<ref>[http://www.datamation.com/osrc/article.php/3838186/Sexism-Open-Source-Softwares-Dirty-Little-Secret.htm Sexism: Open Source Software's Dirty Little Secret]</ref> 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,<ref>[https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-July/msg00003.html Introducing Fedora Women]</ref> 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.
-Read more [[/Mission|  about our mission...]]
+On the Fedora [[Community Blog]], a reflection and plan for reaching out to more women contributors was shared in the [https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/women-in-computing-and-fedora/ Women in Computing and Fedora] article.
+== 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.
-== Communicate and Get Involved ==
-The [https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-women-list fedora-women-list]  mailing list is available for email communications.  Full [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-women-list/ archives]  are available.
+== Get involved ==
+Fedora Women is open to any woman who is looking for a supportive group within the Fedora Community. For this reason, involvement with the Fedora Project - whether as a user or a contributor - is strongly encouraged.
-The #fedora-women IRC channel on [http://freenode.net/ freenode]  is always available for live chat.
+'''New to Fedora?''' There is a vast amount of information available regarding the roles and expectations of potential contributors to the Fedora Community. If you are interested in [[Join|joining the Fedora Project]], you should consider the many positions available and assess where your particular talents would best serve the community.
+If you're uncertain of how to proceed, there are a series of [[Join]] pages for all of the different sub-projects and teams in Fedora. Before choosing a place to get involved, it's important to make sure you join an area of the Project you are excited about and interested to participate in. Especially in open source, it's important for you to work on things that interest you personally. You can find the Join pages for the following sub-projects and groups.
+* [[Ambassadors_Join_start|Ambassadors]]: Representing Fedora as advocates in the field
+* [[CommOps]]: Community Operations, or CommOps, helps improve communication and community infrastructure across the Project
+* [[Join_the_Design_Team|Design]]: Working on graphics and designs for Fedora
+* [[How_to_contribute_to_Docs|Documentation]]: Writing documentation on different pieces of Fedora
+* [[Joining_EPEL|EPEL]]: A special interest group working on packaging software for enterprise Linux
+* [[Infrastructure/GettingStarted|Infrastructure]]: Maintaining our infrastructure and writing software to integrate with it
+* [[I18N/Join|Internationalization]]: Help improve and test software to be more multilingual friendly
+* [[L10N/Guide|Localization]]: Translating interfaces and software in Fedora to new languages
+* [[Joining_the_Fedora_marketing_project|Marketing]]: Creating strategy of spreading Fedora to new users and audiences
+* [https://fedoramagazine.org/writing-an-article-for-the-fedora-magazine/ Magazine]: Writing how-to style pieces and news article about topics in Fedora and open source
+* [[Join_the_package_collection_maintainers|Package Maintainers]]: Writing new software and packaging other people's work in Fedora
+* [[QA|Quality Assurance]]: Testing the software in Fedora and making sure it is good to go
+* [[Websites/Join|Websites]]: Developing the websites used across the Fedora Infrastructure
-== Women of Fedora ==
+You can also find a list of other areas to participate in on the [[Join]] page.
-Lady contributors to the Fedora Project can add their wiki homepages to the CategoryWomen category.  The CategoryWomen page can be used to locate them, along with other Fedora Women pages.
+=== GNOME Outreachy ===
+Fedora participates in the [https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/ GNOME Outreachy] program, formerly known as Outreach Program for Women (OPW). Outreachy was inspired by both the Google Summer of Code and also how few women applied for it in the past. Different free and open source software (FOSS) projects or organizations can apply to offer paid internships as part of the program. This program is an internship program specifically targeted at women, people of color, and other under-represented groups. Our goal is to increase participation in Fedora. This is a continuation of the very successful [https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen GNOME Outreach Program for Women] and we are running the program in conjunction with GNOME and other prominent open source projects.
+Fedora participated in [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Outreachy/2015 Outreachy 2015] and plans to participate in [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Outreachy/2016 Outreachy 2016] as well. Read the wiki pages for more details about Fedora's participation in Outreachy, how to get involved, and where to apply.
-== Joining the Fedora Project ==
+== Locate Nearest Help ==
-Women who are interested in working with the Fedora Project can work with Fedora Women to get started.  They can also work through the [[Mentors|  Fedora Mentors]]  project to get assistance for every step.  For more information about working with the Fedora Project, see these resources:
+{| border="1"
+!  Name || Location
+|-
+| [[User:Niteshnarayan|Nitesh Narayan Lal]]|| Delhi, India
+|-
+| [[User:Tatica|María "tatica" Leandro]]|| Venezuela - LATAM
+|-
+| Jehane|| Paris, France
+|-
+| [[User:Aeva|Aeva Palecek]]|| Chicago, USA
+|-
+| [[User:Ankursinha|Ankur]]|| Hatfield, UK
+|-
+|}
-* [[Join|  Join]]
-* [[FedoraBounties|  FedoraBounties]]
-* [[Mentors|  Mentors]]
-== Press ==
+== Know Our Existing Women Contributors ==
+{| border="1"
+!  Name || Location
+|-
+| [[User:Amani|A Mani]]|| Kolkata, India
+|-
+| [[User:Rbergero|Robyn]]|| Phoenix, AZ, USA
+|-
+| [[User:Tatica|María "tatica" Leandro]]|| Venezuela - LATAM
+|-
+| [[User:Aeva|Aeva]]|| Chicago, OH, USA
+|-
+| [[User:Rsuehle|Ruth]]|| Raleigh, NC, USA
+|-
+| [[User:Duffy|Mizmo]]|| Boston, MA, USA
+|-
+| [[User:amsharma|Amita Sharma]]|| Pune, India
+|-
+| [[User:bee2502|Bee (Bhagyashree)]]|| Guwahati, India
+|-
+| [[User:Lailah|Lailah (Sylvia Sánchez)]]|| Montevideo, Uruguay
+|-
+| [[User:Jonatoni|Jona Azizaj]]|| Tiranë, Albania - EMEA
+|-
+| [[User:Acarter|Amanda Carter]]|| Chapel Hill, NC, USA
+|-
+| [[User:yulytas|Julita Inca]]|| Lima, Peru
+|-
+| [[User:Lilixx|Aura Lila Gutiérrez]]|| Nicaragua, LATAM
+|-
+| [[User:Alyaj2a|Aly Yuliza Machaca Mamani]]|| Peru, LATAM
+|-
+| [[User:Leanderthal|K Rain Leander]]|| Groningen, Netherlands, EMEA
+|-
+| [[User:trishnag|Trishna Guha]]|| Kolkata, India
+|-
+| [[User:mativi|Ana Mativi]]|| Brazil - LATAM
+|}
-* [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-July/msg00003.html fedora-announce-list Announcement]
+== Upcoming Events ==
-* [http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_56 FedoraNEWS.ORG Appearance]
-* [http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/29/1444223 Slashdot Announcement]
-* [http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6100569.html ZDNet News Article]
-== Other Resources ==
+* [[Fedora Women Day 2016]] - July 15, 2016
-* [[Women/LinuxChix|  LinuxChix]]  is a community of women working with Linux.
+== External links ==
-* [http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen GNOME Women]  is a group dedicated to providing encouragement for women to contribute to GNOME.
+* [https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/women-in-computing-and-fedora/ Women in Computing and Fedora] - Reflection and plans for improving diversity in Fedora
-* [http://women.kde.org/ KDE-Women]  is about building a community of female KDE contributors and users.
+* [http://archwomen.org/ Arch Linux Women]
-* [http://women.debian.org/ 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.
+* [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Geek_Feminism_Wiki Geek Feminism Wiki]
-* [http://ubuntu-women.org/ Ubuntu-Women]  is a team functioning under Ubuntu to provide a platform and encouragement for women to contribute to Ubuntu.
+* [http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen GNOME Women]
+* [http://women.kde.org/ KDE-Women]
+* [http://www.linuxchix.org/ LinuxChix]
+* [http://women.debian.org/ The Debian Women Project]
+* [http://ubuntu-women.org/ Ubuntu-Women]
+* <span style="color:#555555">'''(Dead since 2012, Spanish)'''</span> [http://centroamericanas.piensalibre.org/ Centroamericanas (wayback link)]
+==Notes==
+<references/>
-----
 [[Category:Women]]

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