Women in Open Source and Open Standards

Michelle Murrain, OpenIssue, LLC, Moderator

Sarah Mei, Pivotal Labs

Kaliya Hamlin, Identity Woman

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What We’ll Cover

•Women in Open Source

•What are Open Standards? Why should we care?

•Women in Open Standards

•Q&A and Discussion moderated by Michelle Murrain, Partner at Open Issue

Moving the

Needle•How SF Ruby got to 18%

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/839344289/

About mesarahmei (twitter, github)

Photos copyright (clockwise starting from left) Christian Mehlfuhrer, Yukihiro Matsumoto, me, Pivotal Labs

SF Ruby Meetup•Big!

•Active!

•http://meetup.com/sfruby

The Problem

Jan 2009 Jan 2010

Jan 2011??

Coming up...

•Our process

•What we’ve gotten out of it

•Why is it so hard?

XTREME COMMUNITY

1. Set goals

2. Do events

3. Cultivate people

1. Set goals

2. Do events

3. Cultivate people

XTREME COMMUNITY

Set goalsFocus on something you can fix. Be

specific!

Do Events

Do the right kind of events.

Target specific audiences

Tie in your goals

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Logistics

Logistics

The easy part!

Logistics•Offer childcare

•Offer nursing/pumping space

•Get sponsors

•Have an afterparty

MEN•Yes!

•Get them involved

•They make great volunteers

•Give volunteers drink tickets for the afterparty

•W2.0 attendance model

Cultivate people•Both sides of the pipeline

•For women who’ve come to an event:

•Follow up!!

•Plan a series

•Recruit women from the 1st to help with #2

Get new women in

•Talk your events up, to everyone you meet

•Buy a domain, throw up wordpress...UPDATE it

•Print business cards, give them out constantly

•Blog about it on your technical blog

•Talk about it on facebook & twitter

•Do talks, BoFs, meetups, etc., at conferences

Get new women in

•Be visible in your community

•Put your name on events

•Contribute to the mailing list

•Ask questions after talks

•DO TALKS!

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What did we get?

•More women at monthly meetups

•Some who haven’t come to a workshop (critical mass!)

Expected:

What did we get?

•More active & lively mailing list

•More varied & interesting talks

•More women volunteering to GIVE talks

•MEN feel comfortable not knowing all the answers

•More newbie-friendly events, by and for all genders

Unexpected:

Why is this so hard?

•You need a woman (or 2) willing to be visible.

•You need leadership who thinks it’s worth doing (or at least, won’t get in the way)

•It’s a social problem.

Why is this so hard?

•You need a woman (or 2) willing to be visible.

•You need leadership who thinks it’s worth doing (or at least, won’t get in the way)

It’s a social problem

Questions

Open StandardsKaliya Young Hamlin

@identitywomanwww.identitywoman.net

co-producer & facilitatorInternet Identity Workshop

founder She’s Geeky

Physical World Examples

E-Mail - SMTP

Web Pages - HTML - CSS

Internet Standards

Packets - TCP/IP

Meta-Data - XML

Standards Bodies

Peoples Identities & Emerging “Social” Web

XRI/XDI

SAML

Information

Cards

Portable Contacts

They don’t just come from nowhere

people working in community make them together.

Where are they made and worked

on?

Internet Identity Workshop

On place: My Conference

Who are the People who make them?

Participants in the Federated Social Web Summit. Pre-Open Source Convention July 18th, 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA

The choices we make in protocol design shape what is possible with the

proctological landscape.

When designing and implementing emerging protocols for people and social systems it matters who is in

the room building and shaping those protocols.

Protocols are Political

They shape the possible by defining a proctological

landscape.

Their are Women working on this.....but not many

MaryRuddy

Eve Maler

DeniseTayloe

Pamela Dingle

MaryRundle

MonicaKeller

Adriana Lucas

http://bit.ly/C0fqI

I have a post on Fast Company about women

working in my field

Get more involvedShape the Future

It matters!

Thank You