Drupalchix
Only about 1.5% of the people involved in open source are women, leaving us terribly underrepresented. In the Drupal world, we're up to a whopping 7%, which only gets us to awfully unrepresented. ;) This group is for anyone (either male or female) who believes that we can do better and wants to help.
So if you:
- are a woman who needs some help/guidance in order to get (more) involved with Drupal and the Drupal community
- are a woman who wants to network and get to know other women involved in Drupal
- are anyone who has ideas on things we can do to help encourage women to participate in Drupal
...then this is the group for you. :)
This group is specifically not for job postings, so please keep those off this list. Thanks.
Women In Open Source
CDMUG was at Flourish 2008 and they organized a presentation about Women in Open Source by Dru Lavigne.
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speak.net.nz getting ready for launch
Hey New Zealand Drupal Chix.
Many organisers of technical conferences, meetups, and dinners want to have more gender-balance in their lineups, but they don't know where to find technical women speakers.
Enter http://speak.net.nz, a simple directory and connections system to help technical women speakers and event organisers to find each other.
It needs a few more women to sign up for launch. The site will launch early April.
If you're a woman working with technology, even if you've never spoken infront of a group before, please register and list your expertise.
Getting started
I would love to share a "getting started" tip, and this seems like as good a place as any:
How to improve
My opinion is that the best way to improve this ratio is with consistent, visible demonstrations of success by women who are not unique, too remarkable, or otherwise easily fall into the category of "I can't be like that". In other words, we need high profile women who are "just one of the gals" in the same way that we have lots of high profile male contributors who are "just one of the guys".
Introductions
I figured we could start this group with a "virtual" edition of the Drupalchix BoF at Drupalcon Boston. Go around the "circle," as it were, and introduce ourselves, both to get to know each other a bit, but also so that we're aware that there /are/ other women out there in the Drupal community. ;)
So let's do some introductions... who are you, where are you from, what do you do for a living, what's your background, how'd you get into this crazy Drupal stuff, what do you do with Drupal, and whatever other random facts you'd like to share?
I'll kick it off, I guess...
