okay so let's get started with they talk so you all talk about the average problem for women's that we have you gonna in don't really since two thousand and six and i got involved was it in two thousand and nine O we can introduce or no okay this is for questions later okay and also you know we were able to apply a lot of the lessons that we learned a certain entries problem for women are to run in our outreach program and google summer of code in general so first like non joint google summer of code in two thousand and five which was the first years it was doing a google summer put in a i believe most people here know really well global summer codas but for those who don't it's a problem where a google bayes students five thousand dollars for three months of some of work a on a different free software projects and over two hundred and fifty different free such organisations participating and don't has been fortunate to be participating every year since two thousand and five so you know there were no women applicants and then in a two thousand six hunter will can principle know what is that like among hundred eighty applications that norm received for global summer of code you know twenty people was selected that your but one hundred an eighties there were no women applicants so they decided is that they could do something about it and they started the first of the know women some our outreach program and a it was like really trailblazer because that's when they had to field a lot of the scepticism in a community where people said you know well if women are not shown opposite they might just not be interested and that's how it is and they had the received about a hundred applications and that really prove that women are in fact interested in a six women participated was known for a two months intercept that was like put together just the same here right after the google summer of code that line and i think the hope was that just kind of saying that once that we are communities that is friendly to women would encourage women to apply for google summer of code in future years but as you can see you know the numbers improved slightly but we were like getting like this kind of binary code one zero one zero like you know that's a you know maybe there was one woman in a particular year and also so that was like around the time when i started being involved was can all it and what it can just of the nine which was my a and second what can grant can area so for five percent women am i think is in that actually meant each women and the funny thing is that like when i like started looking into this i started by saying well zora for women and that picture but later and the raffle women in the picture but later more women like karen sensor or some on her hers wire were like our that sylvia was there so more women are keen to me and like i kind of learned that like you know they words there to a so this is number you know but maybe is a one more like i also kind of like hundred sixty people in the don't picture i don't know exactly how many people to work but it was about five percent that were eight women at the conference and the gonna condition like really noticed that and they approached me ask me to organised the outreach problem for women to revive the previous efforts that we had so i was like really new to this type of activity because i was a software engineer and you know i just didn't want to really focus my attention on that before i was asked and then like when i start thinking about it and when i started going to other are free software what women participation tracks like i want to a women participation and all that post that present high nowhere on and you know i was just basically little learning from that that you know we should be doing something about it and and basically a the first thing i started doing it encouraged women to apply for google some of but so we created an average pro for women and but i also said that okay like we should make it an ongoing initiative but we started by encouraging women to bifocals summer of code and in two thousand ten a that you're like we already had like mentors for that which problem for women and we kind of did a round of introductions and they don't women list and you know also in the end like that were six applicants this year for google summer of code and all only one participated two so again like not a very high turnout so this is like when we realised we need to go back to do in the dedicated internships and this is how you noses poster came about and we went back to doing dedicated internships and we are aware doing them twice a year and we had eight to twelve participants each round and also we decided to run some around in parallel with google a summer of code as that a lot of to you notice in white women to apply for both programs and women code reason more students they where able to participate in google summer of code and that would really kicked up the number of women that we have in will summer of code and also you know we have more women in a community now and last it was seventeen percent women at the project and this year it's eighteen percent and this year will also like we soon as a milestone which is with triple the number of speakers a whole women at what it as a percentage so we have twenty one percent women speakers of what to basically more women are you know stepping up in our community and that's wonderful and you know the program seem to work and i'm gonna talk more about why was tickets working so well we're doing this in brno it really does like had of other free software project still like last year can really did this study of newcomers who've joints twelve free several projects in the last three years and for the norm fifty percent of respondents were women and for other project six percent of respondents where women and like this is your to fifteen basics highest concentration was stuff like an but still and we can be idea which was fifteen percent that actually meant like to women replied from bikini D and three women replied from a still and in fact like we had don't have more women responded and all of the project combined so people in the wider free software community of course nobody stand that disparity in women we're representation in the project and there is a lot of interest on the on behalf of like all those projects to do something about it and since we already had i'd say when in formula up we started inviting as organisations to join us and last summer free separate conservancy was a twisted project joined us you know kind of like stealing from want to which you know is people in computer science that was like the hardest pro problem and then you know in the winter and then this number of skilled from to too many and and that's you can see the a good all martial artist girl is gonna poster and now we have more of free software robots and the world as a logo so this is this is the information about how much the program has grown a right now we have us thirty seven in terms participating was sixteen organisations and that includes we comedian was the lot and you know not include linux kernel open a morass lots of great projects and you know at the same time like i mean the climate is changing the culture's changing and in google summer of code goes we'll team and i and the either initiative after that it be need to in course more women to participate in free software are also be reflected in the fact that just years there's a nine point five percent of google somehow of code participants the women and like that number has been climbing from really low numbers in earlier years and like another example that i have is that a bikini dear has only ever had like one woman participative will summer of code before and because the work which is to be in a in the access problem for women this year as a summer they have seven out of about twenty of their google summer of course participants this year are women so the can experience it can own had with also increase in the number of women for just being able last summer of code is like was basically replicated by a bikini D a and accurately sponsors of the surround a longer than google are a really big general sponsors and then mostly other musicians our sponsor in internships where people are contributing each choose their initiation specifically but yes of really just you know we're learning where working together with a lot of great projects to advance women's participation in free software and right had if a having mean workmen's this which is great and ropes and great our we go park with helped us dropped the contracts for everybody which is something we decided to introduce this year as the program group and so why it works first like when when people are applying i mean first things that we do is we address women directly because this just seems to grab their attention to let them know that a like that would thing might single unlike what they've observed around them this is something that is really open to them and something that is welcome enforce them and we can that woman was mentors which ensures that like to have a one on one attention do an application process and we really emphasise the application process what we want to see a house killed somebody is the and also you know how much they're willing to learn so we require a contribution during the application process for the application to be considered because i think is just like also really important to us that the people we bring and are qualified and you know both them and a and the community have a good experience and also we ask people to spread the word far and wide interest from marketing perspective making a sample tweet an example e-mail available for people you know helps some spread the word for you and then during their internship the reason they need to be they three months internships is because you know women often feel quite behind when us a feast was technology where kind of the after that you know if you guys we're born with the laptop attached to them and women where so providing that focused opportunity to work and something for three months to really developed experience to basically catch up is essential for to jumpstart a women's participation free software and also we depart somewhat from like what's been typical for google summer school would like google summer of code messages this originally was like prove your rock star propose the project in you know put like put you idea into reality and you know we actually learned that doesn't quite work for global summer of code either so we kind of changed approach to it as well so we're really try to emphasise a project that unmanageable that allow participants like interns to land a tasks throughout the internship period kinda happens beautification of lending something and also definitely they have to be like agreed upon a basic community and also relevant so you kinda have to accept at the project plan might change throughout a so basically we define the actual for women insertions as more of a fellowship which is more free flowing and we apply that to will some of go to the extent that that's possible was in the google summer of code framework and another very important things that we're doing was interested but that we're requiring participants to block every are two weeks and first that increases the visibility of their work and second it let the community know that women are participating make women a part of the community and i think that in brno we had a of various moves transition to have an a discourse in the project that just gradually changed to be more a polite and to be aware of the fact that women are part of the conversation like we're really never had to like force that issue and say like let's just like drop all the corny jokes how but people became more sensitive overtime because women's voices are visible in the community and you know you can contrast that for example with like linux kernel which right now is have an like rampant discussions about what is the appropriate language to be used on mailing and i think that we're doing is the team internships are open to balls non coders and i believe that was in the previous slide yes this is the programs open to both non students and not coders which basically extensive field you know we want we definitely need to have outreach programs for designers and translators in general but at least right now we are able to do that was in the out reach program for women and nancy this is also very important because that basically allows women to transition into work in a on free software after this students you know and free suffer is not like notably has a little barrier to entry you don't need to have a diploma to work on free software so you know people from different walks of life can joint free suffering to join with the help of the outreach program for women and the couple of the points and this slide is that you know well some like a woman might still be like the only woman in the project that she's working on we have this community of interns where they can talk to each other and kinda network and i have the support network of women who participate in and of both men and women who are mentors in the program and you know face to face communication like we're having here quite because very important and you know that's what gets people addicted so we try to bring everybody to the events and encourage other organisations to do the things in fact this front would be introduced to five how hundred dollar allowance for travel affords the out from for women insurance and that's actually some sort google some of code provides as well for travelling to relevant events and then after the program and you know we of course encourage participants to stay involved to continue working with their mentors you nosy interaction soul but cement are shipping teen years and i have also encouraging turns to present at conferences and you know many step up to have very active roles in our community and also like it's important for us as organisers to understand it's a good support for both other from for women and google some of course to understand that you know people have their own life and like that path like you know it's great to have like a very fast online so somebody moved on two different community or to just do something entirely different haven't been able to share of values was them and the values of free suffering and knowing that more people understand it and can carries that message is also very important so that in itself is tremendous value and privilege of have an you know being able to have those internships and providing those internship opportunities and you know you might have seen some of those flights in my talk at the A G M yesterday but here are some examples of how the alumnis of the program are starting initiatives that in there local areas and also going off to conferences talking about the program so now like to switch to like what did we learn and like how did we applied to make known better for everybody so one of my favourite things that came out of this is that i don't know has a mentors list that you know basically mentors for everybody in like i think the informal mentor ship is just so important just like haven't this human touch like i'm just like remember in like five years like i don't for this word a five yourself look at this like a slide of like a hand with this smiley face and it's not human touch and i think this is just so important at this is this is you know people who can give you a hand right and going on now like it started was like nine mentors for the actors problem for women people interested in outreach problem for women and then we've just moved just list over just a than a lot of initiative and right now has forty six mentors and i'd really cars people to add themselves to it and along with that like of course we've been improving resources for everybody us in particular with created and you commerce tutorial a step by step tutorial to take somebody through the process of downloading in brno module submitting a bug for com submitted fix for it cools in a bog so just really something that helps people get started and about forty people have gone through system the last and months and then actually alters from for women participants have worked on developer tutorials in multiple languages like ball and javascript and see and pies and so we know have improve developer tutorials and along was those we have you know other initiatives that i'm not directly related to search for women but that are part of our you know what we do to make you know newcomers haven't immediately finding a their way starting with can also it's a you know the can on lot harder and the every detail matters initiative by designers where they identify a bugs and features that they definitely want to see fixed and implemented in brno and those a great beginner to intermediate task and you know ever since that we did for the ad for women which is kind applied to google summer of code as well i said before we did not require tool summer of code applicants to engage with the project that they were applying to work on do an application appeared we just said you know give us the link to some bulk you sold in free software and i this engagement and like during the application process and seen simple bugs some simple patches land kinda makes a detective and very encouraging and to the students and prepare is them to start to be ready to dive in into their project so you know is i mentioned at the aegean we had like an exceptionally high rate of engagements was i will summer of good students this year and we also require everybody to block see it used to be a requirement that people have to send their updates to me a little list and then we realise that the meal on this is mostly just being read by other insurance and we realise that you know it's really good to get people to just blog on the planet and you know get the feedback from the community and you know just kind of also feel more integrated with the community and again we have the size more manageable agreed-upon tasks instead of like grant idea projects and you know we do things together like for a you know which free bows programs as our outreach program both google summer of code and outreach group for women so for example you know what do i i'd yearbook a post last year and this year with old interns your screen there never believe very special and to see and then do have participated in both programs and that and you want to more for quite a few actually and tiffany and those the things you can do it to help like you know first just be mentor you know put yourself out there so that you know somebody can get your help and become as awesome as you are and also you know think about the beginners how like how would the beginner approach your project like have good resources for them have step by step tutorials you know be ready to point to easy tasks i think you know i said like we have too much of you know kind of scratch around each at this is where we just in well like your newcomer like you know what do you want to work on like to have a grand vision and really i just and that we need to do a better job in a directing newcomers to small tasks that are definitely something that we want those that we maximise how good their experience of landing that first batch is how likely it is that we will help them and that actual and because that's something that we want to see landed so maximise in the good experience over you know prove your rock star it's i think it's a good approach and then a for both the opportunities that we ask people to promote when you know we have the internships and for any opportunities that you know but in your city you know we are now collecting you know information about women groups in different cities and different lot calls and those two links so you know and both of them if you go to the outer sprung for women spread the word you can find they are the links there as well and i think it's just you know and the second link is basically like women in computer science groups in universities so if there is an advantage and you're like well women are just not sure not they're not interested i know that's not the keys just invite them invite them like take you know take make the extra effort to and information about events to of women in technology list in the area it really makes a difference and also and i think that we followed and like you know we're really fun this was quite it because like you know last year we had as many women at the conference but without us like actually encouraging women to to as well to supply talks and do talks i think fewer would have been doing that this year and that's something that a conference organisers across free software have found that you know when you typically approach an out and out some like do you have an idea for a talk at the conference they would like brainstorm five ideas was you and when you approach you woman she would say well i'm not and that i'm not the expert and like you know and the ideas that like you don't have to be the expert you can be an expert you know something talk about it and so making an extra effort to encourage women to say yes you have things to talk about please go and talk about it at the conference really make sense in promoting the visibility of women in the project and you know more specifically also you know if you're the companies it's not yet sponsor not rich problem for women a please consider getting your company to sponsor an internship and you know if you're donating money to the confrontation you couldn't possibly here mark damped was the a control for women were basically go and each and sponsors outreach problem for women internships itself so you know and intonation to signal condition would help with that and i also would like to talk about a couple other initiatives that are making the free suffers base more welcoming to women because you know we we're really need to climate change and i think what we're doing and don't is like at a really big part of the climate change but you know nobody can do it alone and it's great to have different decision approach and it from different angles and i'd say that all's serene like post can open teach an open hatch and need initiative are confronted in a question of a low participation of women in free software from three different angles and so here just kind of funny that like you know this looks like a chicken and then tag and we do have the bit over chicken an ad problem we are you know few women are participating in free software because few women are participating in free software and they don't think that the are culture is friendly to women's participation so those two organisations there are trying to solve this problem from two different angles open hatch is running workshops a for students at universities and they probably around like over a dozen workshops right now a believe all somewhere in united states but they're they have exceptional materials online for their workshops and write ups from sam and they usually try to organise those workshops rules the women in computer science other groups at the university like they open to all students but they would make this extra effort to invite women and basically those are introduction to free software like what is free software what is tools used for free software and help in a participants fix simple box across different projects and eight initiative is approaches this from a different angle where they had taken make a really big picture view of what do we need to do to make a culture friendlier to women so they have a created an anti harassment policy of version of which we are has been adopted by over a hundred free supper conferences including quite that they're creating the running at camp of and once or twice a year is that a bring women interested in open technology and culture together and the last event had about two hundred participants and also had an L extract from an a to to help kinda distill how many can be helpful and in promoting discos and you know it like i've been to i to cams and it's a fantastic of and because you see a lot of like minded people you see a lot of people like doing things to to change you know to change the ratio and also just doing all some stuff in you know in their projects so more things that you can do a to help with those organisations which would also promote our participation of women in free software is the create an open hatch profile so like they also have an online component where i think norm should be better represented in the fact that we are friendly project and as they have you know profiles for mentors on their side that i encourage people to create and also they have contests material so you can austin open hedge workshop and they have like also like those like online missions fully cluring different batch and get and also you like installation instructions that you can use doing that workshop you know if you are run in organising a conference you should seriously consider have an anti harassment policy and also at camp is a fantastic event in a the usually have a portion of it that's you know for women only and of course that for men and women so i'd encourage tendon it because you know that gives you a big picture of what's happening in free software across all of free software up to make it more diapers and also it can't i am so i recently be team and advisor for the E D initiative so i definitely feel very passionate about they of course because i think we need this big picture change when users all too much at the current for women in free software that you know is doing something that's like very complimentary to what the confrontation is doing and they have just or their find raised in drive for this year and it's basically an organisation that's run by two people and one of them was a choral and filesystems hacker attract had just you know had to quit her job and start this nonprofit and they're not looking to hire third person and a i think it's just it's an essential organisation for a promoting to diversity in free software so i would really encourage people to donate to it and also open hatches a fantastic because the kind of few works that they're doing is much needed so you know as it run an open hatch workshop may university in your city would donate to open hexes that they can com to university or invite them to come to a your university and so i've tentatively scheduled the women attack a ball a two four P M on wednesday so we can have more of a discussions there and you know we you purposefully leaving this like very open ended you know we can just talk about anything to talk about doctors problem for women but we also can talk just about you know challenges that like why we're doing any sin in particular about women's participation in free software in technology like like what is a situation like why like why we doing this write a so yes is there is a boston thank you and other questions so scores since D those don't so much from you know one just those to so many other or incisions this year you are experience like any growing pains if you see what i mean yes i most about growing pains have been technical which you like really well from are familiar with like we need an application system and you know i know that to be on an entry it's and we have some great to get involved with help that's build an application system because i couldn't handle and this over a mailing list and it kind of worked when we have like thirty five applicants will be known but this year we had like a hundred over a hundred applicants a across a the sixteen organisations and it became i completely unmanageable through mailing list so i said let's like our biggest growing pain that we need an application system but it's i think really like one abbreviations join us like they have you know basically like condor parts of me like they are who are like really excited to a to participate in to run it so it does have like this kind of distributed a few of google summer of code even though we do try to you know provide more ideas about how to make this work us as a user consistent requirements across all projects and i haven't really mentioned it but i had it on one of the slides and that's like you have to planet know it's my favourite login aggregate or i don't know i sure really big favourite between planet norman a women in free software planted i highly recommend everyone to like added to the roster of what street it's extremely it's inspirational so in addition to be included on the planets a of stay organisation organisations we possibly interns to be included on this planet any more questions you may not a how do you think we can improve and the you know the sticking around radio of participants i mean specially in google somewhere code a lot of participants did not stick around after two program and this is we could apply for improvement is more successful than some of couldn't to dot extension as far as i know but still there a certain number of participants that did not stick around but leaving we could do was a community members mentors all of us right so i think like what been better about it for a whole summer of code as well so i definitely things that have an very high standards during the selection process it's very important have this like engagement period where the applicants already knows the mentor and have already like shown what what's a capable of during the application process is essential for us to be selecting the right candidates and then i you know i think mentioned you know i feel like the stickiness factor is good but i feel like it's not like and ultimate measure of success in some ways because if you like you know it's normal that you know people might develop also interested people might want to pursue other interests you know so i think it's just haven't like people have a good experience and like learn what it is like what free staffers about what can almost about itself is extremely valuable but decided like you know we should just you know engage was people you know engage before they it a do an application process engage during the internship you know bring people to a lot of you know but you know like i feel like you know people are here because of course you know like there are a lot of winters in this room and of course we would like you to stick we you know we're happy to have you here but i also don't want anybody feels oppressed are just O B I minutes left any other questions have you run into any challenges term so maybe tour jury interactions that you know that you have to overcome it varies and i have the work individual pieces which i would say like would usually be pretty individual cases where i mean you know we you know we had some you know that there is the spectrum writing somebody might be like very much hands off as a mentor or somebody might be you know kinda you know we had like a situation where one person the concerted ourself the mentor and like not and gone home but just the example like and started like really given so much guidance is that it was overwhelming and they it was like not see can experience we want people to have like you know we wanted to be a fellowship where you know you were accomplishments speak for themselves a and we don't what we don't want it to be a stressful situation and so you know if somebody decided that they need to micro manage an intern like you know that we don't want that a you know we will see don't want somebody to like really like not be present into i was like the inter reaches out doesn't like it's a spectrum and you know there is definitely human factor in this then you know sometimes interns like you know have things of their own have an and live that you might affect like you know how they are doing with the program so yes of human factor i would just try to make ourselves available offer both mentors and interest to talk to us of is the right issues and hopefully try to help resolve some and so this and also like mentors like happened you know varied expectations you know i think like again like i approach is very much as a fellowship you know people change direction a you know just it's i think the approach is more relaxed and like just like giving people the opportunity to develop themselves and you know some mentors that to use to like very like creature it like will some of course structure so we need to talk to sam's of this not helping would like just anybody else have any questions we just so what's next i mean we've been expanding the program a lot a lot of other organisations are participating and we have a lot of participants what what's next what's your to train and then there i i'm here that's a good question i still feel like you know the program has like grown so much in this year is that we just need to iterate and like like you know just be more mature was like an application system and you know of course you know there are hundred fifty of so free stuff organisations participating in google summer of code and like you know the percentage of women participating with a across a little what was like nine point five percent and percentage of women was organisations participate in both all P W and google summer what was more like searching point five percent i mean basically next is that the world joins us you know we take over the world no she so do you think there will be a meg you know she ask what's coming next and do you think there will be a moment when we want to need that next time to happen like you know like we feel like we are integrated right so it's a it's a great question and i think it's a great question "'cause" i have and answers that i thought of what and i like that question and which is a you know well internally we might feel that we are integrated and you know for all we know we will reach fifty percent participation right in a you know we will feel like that you know you know women and men feel equally comfortable in the community a but you know the world outside of us like has a lot of stereotypes and the lists are attached and not going to we easily so externally people might still like not know how open we are internally so we ice i think that will will needs to be doing this for a long time i i just like sky you use an spoke about a contract in the air in E in the options we complement this within their first previously well what is this about how and where can we read more about it i'm just checking like are we running over no we have to three two minutes okay so so it's illegal contract for that mentors and interns assigned because we just we realised that you know we need to formalise it more like this has been very much a grassroots effort for the confrontation a but out as we have more actors in the legal sense in that you know we need to protect the confrontation so you know things like you know that's give a mentor is you know acting badly towards an interim but things are is that minutes use a confrontation it's that type of things and that the you know the basically that it's a contract that project that you know foundation from seen that are basically outside of our control and it's basically something that you know karen you know where really helped us implement and worked with as a rope and great a that this for us so that i will or a yes it's a little for it's a little from that the problem no work for norman diaspora wanna work for the common you know other for other things i just ask one more one last question a well what is that we will be the what exactly are the mentors agreed you went when we think is each you can put a contract because they have to be about even they can see no foundation that's all fine you know from a legal point if you that makes right sense are we started ignore foundation why you know how easy it just right it's a sign some so it's mentors across all those sixteen organisations participate in this year so it's people we don't know is it's not just the confrontation are a male members it's people across many organisations and i don't remember like this specifics of the terrace but i mean some of it is basically just saying you know how you will be available and provide help to see in turn i mean maybe there is like a reverse statement that like if you know inter and you know all the problem for our mentors and ugliness you that know phonation like it's basically i mean i'll probably have to talk to cared about was a we can make those are public or you know like and show them to anybody interested but basically we just have like so many people involves this now that we have like that we don't know that we needed to formalise okay that's good anybody else i mentioned i think that you know if you know it's about time alright thank you thank you everybody number first of all