okay so let's get started with they talk so you all talk about the average
problem for women's that we have
you gonna in don't really since two thousand and six and i got involved was
it in two thousand and nine O we can introduce or no okay
this is for questions later okay and also you know we were able to apply
a lot of the lessons that we learned a certain entries problem for women are
to run in our outreach program and google summer of code in general
so first like non joint google summer of code in two thousand and five which
was the first years it was doing a google summer put in a i believe
most people here know really well global summer codas but for those who don't it's
a problem where a google bayes students five thousand dollars for three months of some
of work a on a different free software projects and over two hundred and fifty
different free such organisations participating and don't has been fortunate to be participating every year
since two thousand and five so you know there were no women applicants and then
in a two thousand six hunter will can principle know what is that like among
hundred eighty applications that norm received for global summer of code you know twenty people
was selected that your but one hundred an eighties there were no women applicants so
they decided is that they could do something about it and
they
started the first of the know women some our outreach program and a it was
like really trailblazer because that's when they had to field a lot of the scepticism
in a community where people said you know well if women are not shown opposite
they might just not be interested and that's how it is and they had the
received about a hundred applications and that really prove that women are in fact interested
in a six women participated was known for a two months intercept that was like
put together
just the same here right after the google summer of code that line
and
i think the hope was that just kind of
saying that once that we are communities that is friendly to women would encourage women
to apply for google summer of code in future years but as you can see
you know the numbers improved slightly but we were like getting like this kind of
binary code one zero one zero like you know that's a you know maybe there
was one woman in a particular year
and also so that was like around the time when i started being involved was
can all it and what it can just of the nine which was my a
and second what can grant can area so for five percent women am i think
is in that actually meant each women and the funny thing is that like when
i like started looking into this i started by saying well zora for women and
that picture but later and the raffle women in the picture but later more women
like karen sensor or some on her hers wire were like our that sylvia was
there so more women are keen to me and like i kind of learned that
like you know they words there to a so this is number you know but
maybe is a one more like i also kind of like hundred sixty people in
the don't picture i don't know exactly how many people to work but it was
about five percent that were eight women at the conference
and
the gonna condition like really noticed that and they approached me ask me to organised
the outreach problem for women to revive the previous efforts that we had so i
was like really new to this type of
activity because i was a software engineer and you know i just didn't want to
really
focus my attention on that before i was asked and then like when i start
thinking about it and when i started going to other are free software
what women participation tracks like i want to a women participation and all that post
that present high nowhere on and you know i was just basically little learning from
that
that you know we should be doing something about it and
and basically a the first thing i started doing it encouraged women to apply for
google some of but so we created an average pro for women and but i
also said that okay like we should make it an ongoing initiative
but we started by encouraging women to bifocals summer of code and in two thousand
ten a that you're like we already had like mentors for that which problem for
women and we kind of did a round of introductions and they don't women list
and
you know also in the end like that were six applicants this year for google
summer of code and all only one participated two so again like not a very
high turnout so this is like when we realised we need to go back to
do in the dedicated internships
and this is how you noses poster came about and we went back to doing
dedicated internships
and we are aware doing them twice a year
and we had eight to twelve participants each round and also we decided to run
some around in parallel with google a summer of code as that a lot of
to you notice
in white women to apply for both programs and women code reason more students they
where able to participate in google summer of code and that would really
kicked up the number of women that we have in will summer of code
and also you know we have more women in a community now and last it
was seventeen percent women at the project and this year it's
eighteen percent and this year will also like we soon as a milestone which is
with triple the number of speakers a whole women at what it as a percentage
so we have twenty one percent women speakers of what to basically more women are
you know stepping up in our community and that's wonderful and
you know the program seem to work and i'm gonna talk more about
why was tickets working
so well we're doing this in brno it really does like had of other
free software project still like last year can really did this study of newcomers who've
joints twelve free several projects in the last three years
and for the norm fifty percent of respondents were women and for other project six
percent of respondents where women and like this is your to fifteen basics highest concentration
was stuff like an but still and we can be idea which was fifteen percent
that actually meant like to women replied from bikini D and three women replied from
a still and in fact like we had don't have more women responded and all
of the project combined
so people in the wider free software community of course nobody stand that disparity in
women
we're representation in the project and there is a lot of interest on the on
behalf of like all those projects to do something about it and since we already
had i'd say when in formula up we started inviting as organisations to join us
and last summer free separate conservancy was a twisted project joined us you know kind
of like stealing from want to which you know is people in computer science that
was like the hardest pro problem and then you know in the winter and then
this number of skilled from to too many and
and that's you can see the a good all martial artist girl is gonna poster
and now we have more of
free software robots
and the world
as a logo
so this is this is the information about how much the program has grown a
right now we have us thirty seven in terms participating was sixteen organisations and that
includes we comedian was the lot and you know not include linux kernel
open a morass lots of great projects
and you know at the same time like i mean the climate is changing the
culture's changing and in google summer of code goes we'll team and
i and the either initiative after that it be need to in course more women
to participate in free software are also be reflected in the fact that
just years there's a nine point five percent of google somehow of code participants the
women and like that number has been climbing from really low numbers in
earlier years and like another example that i have is that a bikini dear has
only ever had like one woman participative will summer of code before and because the
work which is to be in a in the access problem for women
this year as a summer they have seven out of about twenty of their google
summer of course participants this year are women so the can experience it can own
had with also increase in the number of women for just being able last summer
of code is like was basically replicated by a bikini D a
and accurately sponsors of the surround a longer than google are a really big general
sponsors and then mostly other musicians our sponsor in internships where people are contributing each
choose their initiation specifically
but yes of really just you know we're learning where working together with a lot
of great projects to advance women's participation in free software
and right had
if a having mean workmen's this which is great and ropes and great our we
go park with helped us dropped the contracts for everybody which is something we decided
to introduce this year as the program group
and so why it works first like when
when
people are applying i mean first things that we do is we address women directly
because this just seems to grab their attention to let them know that a like
that would thing might single unlike what they've observed around them this is something that
is really open to them and something that is welcome enforce them and we can
that woman was mentors which ensures that like to have a one on one attention
do an application process and we really
emphasise the application process what we want to see a house killed somebody is the
and also you know how much they're willing to learn
so we require a contribution during the application process for the application to be considered
because
i think is just like also really important to us that the people we bring
and
are qualified and you know both them and a and the community have a good
experience and also we ask people to spread the word far and wide interest from
marketing perspective making a sample tweet an example e-mail available for people you know helps
some spread the word for you
and then
during their internship
the reason
they need to be
they three months internships is because you know women often feel
quite behind when us a feast was technology where
kind of the after that you know if you guys we're born with the laptop
attached to them and women where so providing that focused opportunity to work and something
for three months to really developed experience
to basically catch up is essential for to jumpstart
a women's participation free software
and also we depart somewhat from like what's been typical for google summer school would
like google summer of code messages this originally was like prove your rock star propose
the project
in you know put like put you idea into reality and you know we actually
learned that doesn't quite work for global summer of code either so we kind of
changed approach to it as well so we're really try to emphasise a project that
unmanageable that allow participants like interns to land a tasks throughout the internship period kinda
happens beautification of lending something
and also definitely they have to be like agreed upon a basic community and
also relevant so you kinda have to accept at the project plan might change throughout
a so basically we define the actual for women insertions as more of a fellowship
which is more free flowing and
we apply that to will some of go to the extent that that's possible was
in the google summer of code framework
and another very important things that we're doing was interested but that we're requiring participants
to block every are two weeks
and first that increases the visibility of their work and second it let the community
know that women are participating make women a part of the community and i think
that
in brno we had a
of various moves
transition to have an a discourse
in the project that just gradually changed to be more a polite and to be
aware of the fact that women are part of the conversation like we're really never
had to like
force that issue and say like let's just like
drop all the corny jokes how but people became more sensitive overtime because women's voices
are visible in the community and you know you can contrast that for example with
like linux kernel which right now is have an like rampant discussions
about what is the appropriate language to be used on mailing
and i think that we're doing is the team
internships are
open to
balls non coders and
i believe that was in the previous slide
yes this is the programs open to both non students and not coders which basically
extensive field you know we want we definitely need to have outreach programs for designers
and translators
in general but at least right now we are able to do that was in
the out reach program for women
and nancy this is also very important because that basically allows women to transition into
work in a on free software
after this students you know and free suffer is not like notably has a little
barrier to entry you don't need to have a diploma to work on free software
so you know people from different walks of life can joint free suffering to join
with the help of the outreach program for women
and the couple of the points and this slide is that you know well
some like a woman might still be like the only woman in the project that
she's working on we have this community of interns where they can talk to each
other and kinda network and i have the support network of women who participate in
and of both men and women who are mentors in the program and you know
face to face communication like we're having here quite because very important and
you know that's what gets people addicted so we try to bring everybody to the
events and encourage other organisations to do the things in fact this front would be
introduced to five how hundred dollar allowance for travel affords the out from for women
insurance and that's actually some sort google some of code provides as well
for travelling to relevant events
and then
after the
program and you know we of course encourage
participants to stay involved to continue working with their mentors you nosy interaction soul but
cement are shipping teen years and i have also encouraging turns to present at conferences
and you know many step up to have very active roles in our community
and also like it's important for us as organisers to understand it's a good support
for both other from for women and google some of course to understand that
you know
people have their own life and like that
path like you know it's great to have like a very fast online so somebody
moved on two different community or to just do something entirely different
haven't been able to share of values was them and the values of free suffering
and knowing that more people understand it and can carries that message is also very
important
so that in itself is tremendous value and privilege of
have an you know being able to have those internships and providing those internship opportunities
and you know you might have seen some of those flights in my talk at
the A G M yesterday but here are some examples of how the alumnis of
the program are starting initiatives that in there
local
areas and also going off to conferences talking about the program
so now like to switch to like what did we learn and like how did
we applied to make known better for everybody
so one of my favourite
things that came out of this is that i don't know has a mentors list
that you know basically mentors for everybody in like i think the informal mentor ship
is just so important just like haven't this human touch like i'm just like remember
in like five years like i don't for this word a five yourself look at
this like a slide of like a hand with this smiley face and it's not
human touch and i think this is just so important at this is this is
you know people who can give you a hand right and going on now like
it started was like nine mentors for the actors problem for women people interested in
outreach problem for women and then we've just moved just list over just a than
a lot of initiative and right now has forty six mentors and i'd really cars
people to add themselves to it
and
along with that like of course we've been improving resources for everybody us in particular
with created and you commerce tutorial a step by step tutorial to take somebody through
the process of downloading in brno module submitting a bug for com submitted fix for
it cools in a bog so just really something that helps people get started and
about forty people have gone through system the last and months and then actually alters
from for women participants have worked on developer tutorials in multiple languages like ball and
javascript and see and pies and so we know have improve developer tutorials and along
was those we have you know other
initiatives that i'm not directly related to search for women but that are part of
our you know what we do to make
you know newcomers haven't immediately finding a their way starting with can also it's a
you know the can on lot harder and the every detail matters initiative by designers
where they identify a
bugs and features that they definitely want to see fixed and implemented in brno and
those a great beginner to intermediate task
and you know ever since that we did for the ad for women which is
kind applied to google summer of code as well i said before we did not
require tool summer of code applicants to engage with the project that they were applying
to work on do an application appeared we just said you know give us the
link to some bulk you sold in free software and i
this engagement and like during the application process and
seen simple bugs some simple patches land kinda makes a detective and very encouraging and
to the students and prepare is them to start to be ready to dive in
into their project so you know is i mentioned at the aegean we had like
an exceptionally high rate of engagements was i will summer of good students
this year and
we also require everybody to block see it used to be a requirement that people
have to send their updates to me a little list and then we realise that
the meal on this is mostly just being read by other insurance and we realise
that you know it's really good to get people to just blog on the planet
and you know get the feedback from the community and you know just kind of
also feel more integrated with the community and again we have the size more manageable
agreed-upon tasks instead of like grant idea projects
and you know we do things together like for a you know which free bows
programs as our outreach program both google summer of code and outreach group for women
so for example
you know what do i i'd yearbook a post last year and this year with
old interns
your screen there
never believe very special and to see and then do have participated in both programs
and that
and you want to more for quite a few actually
and tiffany
and those the things you can do it to help like you know first just
be mentor you know put yourself out there so that you know somebody can get
your help and become as awesome as you are
and also you know think about the beginners how like how would the beginner approach
your project like have good resources for them have step by step tutorials you know
be ready to point to
easy tasks i think you know i said like we have too much of
you know kind of scratch around each at this is where we just in well
like your newcomer like you know
what do you want to work on like to have a grand vision and really
i just and that we need to do a better job in a directing newcomers
to
small tasks that are definitely something that we want those that we maximise how good
their experience of landing that first batch is how likely it is that we will
help them and that actual and because that's something that we want to see landed
so maximise in the good experience over you know prove your rock star it's i
think it's a good approach
and then a for both the opportunities that we ask people to promote when you
know we have the internships and for any opportunities that you know but in your
city you know we are now collecting you know
information about women groups in different cities and different lot calls and those two links
so
you know and both of them if you go to the outer sprung for women
spread the word you can find they are the links there as well and i
think it's just
you know and the second link is basically like women in computer science groups in
universities so if there is an advantage and you're like well women are just not
sure not they're not interested i know that's not the keys just invite them invite
them like take you know take make the extra effort to
and information about events to of women in technology list in the area it really
makes a difference
and also and i think that
we followed and like you know we're really fun this was quite it because like
you know last year we had as many women at the conference
but without us like actually encouraging women to
to as well to supply talks and do talks
i think fewer would have been doing that this year and that's something that a
conference organisers across free software have found that you know when you typically approach an
out and out some like do you have an idea for a talk at the
conference they would like brainstorm five ideas was you and when you approach you woman
she would say well i'm not and that i'm not the expert and like you
know and the ideas that like you don't have to be the expert you can
be an expert you know something talk about it and so making an extra effort
to encourage women to say yes you have things to talk about please go and
talk about it at the conference really
make sense in
promoting the visibility of women in the project
and
you know more
specifically also you know if you're the companies it's not yet sponsor not rich problem
for women a please consider getting your company to sponsor an internship
and you know if you're donating money to the confrontation you couldn't possibly here mark
damped was the a control for women were basically go and each and sponsors outreach
problem for women internships itself so you know and intonation to signal condition would help
with that
and
i also would like to talk about a couple
other initiatives that are making the free suffers base more welcoming to women because you
know we we're really need to climate change and i think what we're doing and
don't is like at a really big part of the climate change but
you know nobody can do it alone and it's great to have different decision approach
and it from different angles and i'd say that all's serene like post can open
teach an open hatch and need initiative are confronted in a question of a low
participation of women in free software from three different angles and so here just kind
of funny that like you know this looks like a chicken and then tag and
we do have the bit over chicken an ad problem we are you know few
women are participating in free software because few women are participating in free software and
they don't think that the are culture is friendly to women's participation so those two
organisations there are trying to solve this problem from two different angles open hatch is
running workshops a for students
at universities and they probably around like over a dozen workshops right now a believe
all somewhere in united states but they're they have exceptional materials online for their workshops
and write ups from sam and they usually try to organise those workshops rules the
women in computer science other groups at the university like they open to all students
but they would make this extra effort to invite women and basically those are introduction
to free software like what is free software what is tools used for free software
and help in a participants fix simple box across different projects
and
eight initiative is
approaches this from a different angle where they had taken make a really big picture
view of what do we need to do to make a culture friendlier to women
so they have a created an anti harassment policy of version of which we are
has been adopted by over a hundred free supper conferences including quite that they're creating
the running at camp of and
once or twice a year is that a bring women interested in open technology and
culture together and the last event had about two hundred
participants and also had an L extract from an a to
to help kinda
distill how many can be helpful and in
promoting discos and you know it like i've been to i to cams and it's
a fantastic of and because you see a lot of like minded people you
see a lot of people like doing things to
to change you know to change the ratio and also just doing all some stuff
in you know in their projects
so more things that you can do a to help with those organisations which would
also promote our participation of women in free software is the
create an open hatch profile so like they also have an online component where i
think norm should be better represented in the fact that we are friendly project and
as they have
you know profiles for mentors on their side that i encourage people to create and
also they have contests material so you can austin open hedge workshop and they have
like also like those like
online missions fully cluring different batch and get
and also you like installation instructions that you can use doing that workshop
you know if you are
run in organising a conference you should seriously consider have an anti harassment policy
and
also at camp is a fantastic event in a the usually have a portion of
it that's you know for women only and of course that for men and women
so i'd encourage tendon it because
you know that gives you a big picture of what's happening in free software across
all of free software up to make it more diapers
and also it can't i am so i recently be team and advisor for the
E D initiative so i definitely feel very passionate about
they of course because i think we need this big picture change when users
all too much at the current for women in free software
that
you know is doing something that's like very complimentary to what the confrontation is doing
and they have just or their find raised in drive for this year and it's
basically an organisation that's run by two people and one of them was a choral
and filesystems hacker attract had just you know had to quit her job and start
this nonprofit and they're not looking to hire third person and a i think it's
just it's an essential organisation for a promoting to diversity in free software so i
would really encourage people to donate to it and also open hatches a fantastic because
the kind of few works that they're doing is much needed so you know as
it run an open hatch workshop may university in your city would donate to open
hexes that they can com to university or invite them to come to a your
university
and
so i've tentatively scheduled the women attack a ball a two four P M on
wednesday so we can
have more of a discussions there and you know we you purposefully leaving this like
very open ended you know we can just talk about anything to talk about doctors
problem for women but we also can talk just about you know challenges that like
why we're doing any sin in particular about women's participation in free software in technology
like
like what is a situation like why
like why we
doing this write a so yes is there is a boston thank you and other
questions
so scores since D those don't so much from you know one just those
to so many other or incisions this year you are
experience like any growing pains
if you see what i mean
yes i most about growing pains have been technical which you like really well from
are familiar with like we need an application system and you know i know that
to be on an entry it's and we have some great to get involved with
help that's build
an application system because i couldn't handle and this over a mailing list and it
kind of worked when we have like thirty five applicants will be known but this
year we had like a hundred over a hundred applicants a across a the sixteen
organisations and it became i completely unmanageable through mailing list so i said let's like
our biggest growing pain that we need an application system but it's i think really
like one
abbreviations join us like they have you know basically like condor parts of me like
they are who are like really excited to a
to participate in to run it so it does have like this kind of distributed
a few of google summer of code even though we do try to you know
provide more ideas about how to make this work us as a user consistent requirements
across all projects and i haven't really mentioned it but
i had it on
one of the slides and that's like
you have to planet know it's my favourite login aggregate or i don't know i
sure really big favourite between planet norman a women in free software planted i highly
recommend everyone to like added to the roster of what street it's extremely it's inspirational
so in addition to be included on the planets a of stay organisation organisations we
possibly interns to be included on this planet
any more questions
you may not a how do you think we can improve and the you know
the sticking around radio of participants i mean specially in google somewhere code a lot
of participants did not stick around after two program and this is we could apply
for improvement is more successful than some of couldn't to dot extension as far as
i know but still there a certain number of participants that did not stick around
but leaving we could do was a community members mentors all of us
right
so i think like what been better
about it for a whole summer of code as well so i definitely things that
have an very high standards during the selection process it's very important have this like
engagement period where
the applicants already knows the mentor and have already like shown what what's a capable
of during the application process is essential for us to be selecting the right candidates
and then i you know i think
mentioned you know i feel like the stickiness factor is good
but i feel like it's not like
and ultimate measure of success in some ways because
if you like you know it's normal that you know people might develop also interested
people might want to pursue other interests you know so i think it's
just
haven't like people have a good experience and like learn what it is like what
free staffers about what can almost about itself is extremely valuable but decided like you
know we should just you know engage was people you know engage before they it
a do an application process engage during the internship you know bring people to a
lot of you know
but you know like i feel like you know people are here because of course
you know like there are a lot of winters in this room and of course
we would like you to stick we you know we're happy to have you here
but i also don't want anybody feels oppressed are just
O B I minutes left any other questions
have you run into any challenges term so maybe tour jury interactions that you know
that you have to overcome
it varies and
i have the work individual pieces
which i would say like would usually be pretty individual cases where
i mean
you know we you know we had some you know that there is the spectrum
writing somebody might be like very much hands off as a mentor or somebody might
be you know kinda you know we had like a situation where one person the
concerted
ourself the mentor and like not and gone home but just
the example like and
started like
really given so much guidance is that it was overwhelming and they it was like
not see can experience we want people to have like you know we wanted to
be a fellowship where you know you were accomplishments speak for themselves a and we
don't what we don't want it to be a stressful situation and so you know
if somebody decided that they need to micro manage an intern like you know that
we don't want that a you know we will see don't want somebody to like
really like
not be present into i was like the inter reaches out doesn't like it's a
spectrum and you know there is definitely human factor in this then you know sometimes
interns like you know have things of their own have an and live that you
might affect like you know how they are doing with the program so yes of
human factor i would just try to make ourselves available offer both mentors and interest
to talk to us of is the right issues and hopefully try to help resolve
some and so this
and also like mentors like happened you know varied expectations
you know i think like
again like i approach is very much as a fellowship you know people change direction
a you know just
it's
i think the approach is more relaxed and like just like giving people the opportunity
to develop themselves and you know some mentors that to use to like very like
creature it like will some of course structure so we need to talk to sam's
of this
not helping would like just
anybody else have any questions we just
so what's next i mean we've been expanding the program a lot a lot of
other organisations are participating and we have a lot of participants
what what's next what's your to train and then there i
i'm here
that's a good question
i still feel like you know the program has like grown so much in this
year is that we just need to iterate and like
like you know just be more mature was like an application system and you know
of course you know there are hundred fifty of so free stuff organisations participating in
google summer of code and like you know the percentage of women participating with a
across a little what was like nine point five percent and percentage of women was
organisations participate in both all P W and google summer what was more like searching
point five percent
i mean basically next is that
the world joins us you know we take over the world
no she
so do you think there will be a meg you know she ask what's coming
next and do you think there will be a moment when we want to need
that next
time to happen like you know like we feel like
we are integrated right so it's a it's a great question and i think it's
a great question "'cause" i have and answers that i thought of what and i
like that question and which is a you know well internally we might feel that
we are integrated and you know for all we know we will reach fifty percent
participation right in a you know we will feel like that
you know
you know women and men feel equally comfortable in the community a but you know
the world outside of us like has a lot of stereotypes and the lists are
attached and not going to we easily so externally
people might still like not know how open we are internally so we ice i
think that will
will needs to be doing this for a long time
i
i just like sky you use an spoke about a contract
in the air in E in the options we complement this within their first previously
well what is this about how and where can we read more about it
i'm just checking like are we running over no we have to three two minutes
okay so
so it's illegal contract for that mentors and interns assigned because we just we realised
that you know we need to formalise it more like this has been very much
a grassroots effort for the confrontation a but out as we have more actors in
the legal sense in that you know we need to protect the confrontation so you
know things like you know that's
give a mentor is
you know acting badly towards an interim but things are is that minutes use a
confrontation it's that type of things and that the you know the basically that it's
a contract that project that you know foundation
from seen that are basically outside of our control and it's basically something that you
know karen you know where really helped us implement and worked with
as a rope and great a that this for us
so that i will or a yes it's a little for it's a little from
that the problem no work for norman diaspora wanna work for the common
you know other for other things
i just ask one more one last question a well what is that we will
be the what exactly are the mentors agreed you went when we think is
each you can put a contract because they have to be about even they can
see no foundation that's all fine you know from a legal point if you that
makes right sense are we started ignore foundation why you know how easy it just
right it's a sign some so it's mentors across all those sixteen organisations participate in
this year so it's people we don't know
is it's not just the confrontation are a male members it's people across many organisations
and i don't remember like this specifics of the terrace but i mean some of
it is basically just saying you know how you will be available and provide help
to see in turn
i mean maybe there is like a reverse statement that like
if
you know inter and you know all the problem for our mentors and ugliness you
that know phonation like it's basically
i mean i'll probably have to talk to cared about was a we can make
those are public or you know like and show them to anybody interested
but basically we just have like so many people involves this now that we have
like that we don't know that we needed to formalise
okay that's good
anybody else i mentioned
i think that you know if you know it's about time alright thank you thank
you everybody number first of all