Women & Mozilla

Open World Forum: Join the Diversity Summit!

You wonder why women are so few in the Free and Open Source area? You feel like the situation can change? On September 30th, in Paris, come to debate these questions! The Open World Forum in Paris (September 30th – October 1st) will host in this year’s 2010 edition a think tank called “Open Diversity [...]

Software Freedom Day, Mozilla and Womoz

I am very glad to have been present in the Software Freedom Day in Colombia.  Many cities celebrated this day, and Mozilla Colombia was invited to Manizales, a small city in the “coffee area”.  Although I live in Bogotá – the Capital and most important and biggest city in Colombia -  we decided to travel [...]

Number of Women in Mozilla

Quick post to announce that we’ve counted the number of women employed in Mozilla (so this means counting people from Mozilla Corp, Foundation, contractors and interns) with Pascal Chevrel and here are the numbers we have reached: there are 68 women out of a total of 406 people, so this means a percentage of 16.75% [...]

AkiraChix: Empowering Women In Africa

Here is a presentation of an awesome African initiative and project from women in IT, that William Quiviger had the opportunity to encounter during his Mozilla Trip to Africa. They are based in Kenya, and it would be great to find ways to collaborate with them (and I’m sure we will ). Please don’t hesitate [...]