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 ?

  • Get the statistics on the selected organizations for the past GSoCs.

  • Select an organization of your liking and skills.

  • Subscribe to their mailing lists and bug-trackers.

  • Join their IRC channels.

  • Select a project

  • Contact mentors

  • Start writing a proposal

Aaaaaand.....

Get Hacking!

 

All that you need is

  • Patience

  • Hard work

What you get out of it

  • Professionalism

  • Self Confidence

  • Work Experience

  • More opportunities

  • 3.67 lakhs!! ;)

RGSoC


  • Just for girls

  • Only deals with Ruby On Rails

  • For absolute beginners

My experience

  • Had been contributing to Mediawiki software for an year now

  • Have 25+ patches merged

  • Interned with Wikimedia Foundation for GSoC 2016

  • Worked on Contributors extensions

Q&A

TKM - Presentation

By haritha28

TKM - Presentation

Presentation slide for outreach program to bring in more women into the field of technology.

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