Women & Mozilla

Cocktail GiTParis WoMoz – We found the place

Here we go, we found the place to take our first cocktail Girls In Tech WoMoz, it’s the Great Canadian which will receive us on March 17th at 6:30pm. Registrations on the website are already complete (amazing, only one day after the announcement), but don’t have any hesitation to come anyway, you’ll be welcome ! [...]

So, time to have a beer ?

Save the date! March 17 at 6:30 pm will be time to party! In fact, it will be the time for a little networking (I don’t know why, but I love this term). In collaboration with Girls In Tech Paris, Women & Mozilla invites you to have a drink in Paris (the location is not [...]

ITWoMoz #1 – Adrienne Alix

First article in a long series (I hope) : WoMoz interviews (ITWoMoz for short). The aim is to present a written exchange from a woman involved in information technology, preferably in Free Software but not necessarily. The general idea is to identify good evidence about what FLOSS is really, from the inside but also the [...]

Womoz at FOSDEM 2010

Last week-end I went to the ULB of Bruxelles for the 10th edition of FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers European Meeting). For this event which grouped more than 200 lectures, Women & Mozilla was present with the many members from the Mozilla community. In the WoMoz program, 2 workgroup sessions Saturday and Sunday [...]

Open source needs more women, women react

Translated from Thierry Noisette’s French article published on ZDNet.fr, with the author’s authorization. Numbers are unflattering towards Open Source software: women represent 28% of proprietary software developers, against … 1,5 to 2% in Open Source software (see in particular the sources listed in Angela Byron (Drupal)’s excellent June presentation, PDF 139 pages: “Women in Open [...]