Women in Open Source
$welcome_Questions?
- Why are we here?
- What is Open Source?
- What are the opportunities?
- Will I be able to achieve anything?
- How will I get benefited?
$who_are_we?
- FOSS enthusiast
- engineering students
- Mentors
- girls who love to code
- we love to travel for free
- we are developers!
Invite you guys to the world of Open Source...
$why_are_we_here?
Introduction To Open Source
What is Open Source?
$getting_started
Join a community
Find bugs
Fix bugs
$what_awaits_you?
- Google Summer of Code
- Outreach Program
- Anita Borg Scholarship
- Grace Hooper India, Asia,Europe, Facebook.
- Adobe India Women in Technology
- Learn IT Girl
- SHE++
- Exchange Programs
- Full scholarship Summer classes
$who_am_i ?
var showoff = function1 () {
- Technical Contributor to Wikimedia Foundation
- Mentor @ THINKFOSS
- Open Source Enthusiast
- Summer student @ Tel-Aviv University, Israel
- Mentor@ FOSS@Amrita
}
$Get_Set & Go!
$Learn IT,Girl
$what?
Mentor + Mentee = Project.
$who?
Women around the Globe!
$when?
Feb-May 2017
$why?
Learn new Languages!
$why?
An awesome project with mentor's guidance.
$why?
A notable achievement for resume!
$why?
Meet lots of people across globe!
Grace Hopper Celebration for Women
$What?
World's largest gathering women conference in India
Grace Hopper Celebration for Women
$What do I get?
Free!
Global Exposure
Uplifts Career opportunities
Amazing Food + Accomodation
Lots of Goodies
void showoff2 () {
- Mentor@Learn IT, Girl 2nd edition.
- Developer@Learn IT,Girl 3rd edition.
- Grace Hopper Celebration India Scholar.
- Contributer@Mozilla Firefox.
- Mentor for FOSS@Amrita.
}
$who_am_i?
Google Summer Of Code
What's Google Summer Of
Code ?
?
?
?
Outreachy <=>GSoC for Girls
- Google Summer of Code is a global program to bring more student developers into open source software development.
- Students work with an open source organization.
- 3 months programming project
How to get started with it ?
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Get the statistics on the selected organizations for the past GSoCs.
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Select an organization of your liking and skills.
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Subscribe to their mailing lists and bug-trackers.
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Join their IRC channels.
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Select a project
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Contact mentors
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Start writing a proposal
Aaaaaand.....
Get Hacking!
All that you need is
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Patience
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Hard work
What you get out of it
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Professionalism
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Self Confidence
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Work Experience
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More opportunities
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3.67 lakhs!! ;)
RGSoC
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Just for girls
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Only deals with Ruby On Rails
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For absolute beginners
My experience
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Had been contributing to Mediawiki software for an year now
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Have 25+ patches merged
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Interned with Wikimedia Foundation for GSoC 2016
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Worked on Contributors extensions
Q&A
Copy of TKM - Presentation
By devikrishnan
Copy of TKM - Presentation
Presentation slide for outreach program to bring in more women into the field of technology.
