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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 Fedora Women aims to foster involvement of women (cis and trans) and genderqueer people in Fedora and Free and Open Source Software.

Since being announced in July 2006,^[1] Fedora Women has striven to raise awareness about women within the Fedora Project and their contributions. This year, we're striving to help build a supportive and inclusive community around Fedora Women, including women and genderqueer people.

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

Foster involvement of women (cis and trans) and genderqueer people in Fedora and Free and Open Source Software.
Provide a central forum for women (cis and trans) and genderqueer interested in Fedora and Free and Open Source Software to interact.
Provide a stronger voice for the women (cis and trans) and genderqueer people of the Fedora Community and highlight their contributors to the Fedora project.

Get involved

Fedora Women is open to any woman (cis and trans) and genderqueer person interested in Fedora Project and Free and Open Source Software. Involvement with Fedora Project as a user and/or a contributor is highly encouraged but not required. We also welcome anyone who seeks to foster involvement of women (cis and trans) and genderqueer people to use and contribute to Fedora Project, regardless of their gender. Join Fedora Women on IRC at #fedora-women on irc.freenode.net .You can also subscribe to Fedora Women mailing list. If you are new to Fedora Women, please introduce yourself on the mailing list to Fedora women community.

New to Fedora? You can contribute to Fedora across diverse teams including but not limited to Coding and Development, Packaging, Testing, Marketing, Outreach, Advocacy, Community Operations, Design. If you are interested in joining the Fedora Project, take a look at 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.

Here are the Join pages for a few sub-projects and teams in Fedora -

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.

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
Radka Janek (Rhea)	EMEA

Past 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

↑ Introducing Fedora Women

[1] Introducing Fedora Women

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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''' Fedora Women aims to foster involvement of women (cis and trans) and genderqueer people in [[Fedora]] and Free and Open Source Software.
-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.
+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 about women within the Fedora Project and their contributions. This year, we're striving to help build a supportive and inclusive community around Fedora Women, including women and genderqueer people.
+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.
-Read more [[/Mission| about our mission...]]
+== Mission statement ==
+* Foster involvement of women (cis and trans) and genderqueer people in  Fedora and Free and Open Source Software.
+* Provide a central forum for women (cis and trans) and genderqueer interested in Fedora and Free and Open Source Software to interact.
+* Provide a stronger voice for the women (cis and trans) and genderqueer people of the Fedora Community and highlight their contributors to the Fedora project.
-== 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 ==
-The <code>#fedora-women</code> IRC channel on [http://freenode.net/ freenode] is always available for live chat.
+Fedora Women is open to any woman (cis and trans) and genderqueer person interested in Fedora Project and Free and Open Source Software. Involvement with Fedora Project as a user and/or a contributor is highly encouraged but not required. We also welcome anyone who seeks to foster involvement of women (cis and trans) and genderqueer people to use and contribute to Fedora Project, regardless of their gender. Join Fedora Women on IRC at	#fedora-women on irc.freenode.net .You can also subscribe to [mailto:women@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Women mailing list]. If you are new to Fedora Women, please introduce yourself on the mailing list to Fedora women community.
-== Women of Fedora ==
+'''New to Fedora?''' You can contribute to Fedora across diverse teams including but not limited to Coding and Development, Packaging, Testing, Marketing, Outreach, Advocacy, Community Operations, Design. If you are interested in [[Join|joining the Fedora Project]], take a look at [[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.
-Lady contributors to the Fedora Project can add their [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraProject:User_pages wiki homepages] to the Category:Women category.  [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Women The Category:Women page] can be used to locate them, along with other Fedora Women pages.
+Here are the Join pages for a few sub-projects and teams in Fedora -
-Paste the Category:Women tag on the bottom of the wiki page that you desire to be tagged as such.
+* [[Ambassadors_Join_start|Ambassadors]]: Representing Fedora as advocates in the field
-<pre><nowiki> [[Category:Women]] </nowiki></pre>
+* [[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
-== Joining the Fedora Project ==
+You can also find a list of other areas to participate in on the [[Join]] page.
-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:
+=== 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.
-* [[Join|  Join]]
+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.
-* [[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
+|-
+| [[User:Rhea|Radka Janek (Rhea)]]|| EMEA
+|}
-* [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-July/msg00003.html fedora-announce-list Announcement]
+== Past 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
+== External links ==
+* [https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/women-in-computing-and-fedora/ Women in Computing and Fedora] - Reflection and plans for improving diversity in Fedora
+* [http://archwomen.org/ Arch Linux Women]
+* [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Geek_Feminism_Wiki Geek Feminism Wiki]
+* [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/>
-* [[Women/LinuxChix|  LinuxChix]]  is a community of women working with Linux.
-* [http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen GNOME Women]  is a group dedicated to providing encouragement for women to contribute to GNOME.
-* [http://women.kde.org/ KDE-Women]  is about building a community of female KDE contributors and users.
-* [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://ubuntu-women.org/ Ubuntu-Women]  is a team functioning under Ubuntu to provide a platform and encouragement for women to contribute to Ubuntu.
-* [http://centroamericanas.piensalibre.org/ 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.
-* [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Geek_Feminism_Wiki Geek Feminism Wiki] A wiki for all news about and for women in geek spaces.
 [[Category:Women]]

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