Southeast Women in Computing Celebration -- Open Source
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Southeast Women in Computing Celebration 2013 Enhance your Software Development Skills through Open Source Participation Rose Robinson Changing the World
Southeast Women in Computing Celebration -- Open Source
Get involved with open source projects and hone your coding skills, collaborate with large technical community and contribute to great development projects.
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1. Southeast Women in Computing Celebration 2013 Enhance your
Software Development Skills through Open Source Participation Rose
Robinson Changing the World
2. Who Is Rose? 22 years 2 teenagers B.S. and M.S.
Mathematics
3. My Firsts My first personal computer: Commodore 64 My first
programming language: Fortran and LISP First time I used the
Internet: 1996
4. How Rose is Changing the World? Anita Borg Institute
Inspiring & Connecting Women in Computing/Technology Grace
Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing Systers Open Source
Zamrize Underrepresented Groups Atlanta Technical Community Code
for Atlanta Rails Girls Atlanta PyLadies Atlanta
5. Anita Borg Institute
6. Where Weve Been ANITA BORG STARTS SYSTERS ANITA BORG FOUNDS
THE INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY (IWT) IWT IS RENAMED: ANITA
BORG INSTITUTE (ABI) GRACE HOPPER CELEBRATION TRANSITIONS TO ANNUAL
EVENT / AUDIENCES GROW ABI BEGINS TOP COMPANY: ANNOUNCES METRICS,
BENCHMARKING GRACE HOPPER MOVES TO LARGER VENUE; ATTENDANCE GROWS
42% GHC INDIA GROWS 2X 1987 1994 1997 2002 2003 2005 2006 2007 2009
2010 2011 2012 ANITA BORG & TELLE WHITNEY HOLD FIRST GRACE
HOPPER CELEBRATION TELLE WHITNEY NAMED CEO OF IWT ABI LAUNCHES
WOMEN OF VISION ABI LAUNCHES FIRST LARGESCALE STUDY. # OF PARTNERS
DOUBLE / REVENUE SPIKES GOOGLE MAKES LARGE STRATEGIC INVESTMENT IN
ABII GRACE HOPPER ATTRACTS ATTENDEES FROM 42 COUNTRIES
7. Where Were Going LAUNCH NEW ONLINE PRESENCE EXPAND GLOBAL
OUTREACH BEYOND NORTH AMERICA & INDIA 2013 DEVELOP ONLINE TOOLS
+ STRATEGIES FOR WOMEN IN COMPUTING AND ORGANIZATIONS TRANSITION TO
GLOBAL LEADER ON WOMEN IN COMPUTING EXPAND OUR GLOBAL REACH IN
ASIA, SOUTH AMERICAN AND AFRICA BUILD AWARENESS OF THE ISSUE ON PAR
WITH LEADING SOCIAL VENTURES LIKE CHARITY WATER 2014 and beyond
EXPAND OUTREACH TO ADDITIONAL AUDIENCESI CREATE CONTENT THAT IS
SHARED ON A VIRAL LEVEL DEVELOP RELATONSHIPS WITH 25% OF FORTUNE
500 IMPACT THE CULTURE AND DIVERSITY OF START-UP TECH
COMPANIES
8. How Systers Change The World Community Pass-It-On Award Open
source participation Mailman Google Summer of Code
9. What is Open Source? Openness Transparency Collaboration
Diversity Rapid Prototyping
10. Why Open Source? Collaborative For everyone, anywhere
around the world Goal is to create better software Licenses that
gives FREE ACCESS TO CODE Open standards Best technology wins
11. Improve Software Development Skills Work on Real-World
Projects Importance of Software Development Cycle Global
Collaboration Open source is a global effort Generalization
Specialization Technical and Non-Technical Code, Design,
Documentation, QA Code Repository (portfolio of your work) Github,
Subversion, Launchpad
12. How Systers Change The World Open source participation
Python Software Foundation Sahana Foundation Customized GNU Mailman
(Email List) Google Summer of Code
15. Open Source Communities Google Summer of Code Sahana
Foundation Python PyLadies Ruby Ruby on Rails Rails Bridge Rails
Girls Ubuntu Android RedHat
16. Open Source Projects/Opportunities Systers GNU Mailman
(customized) GNU Mailman Python Software Foundation Sahana Eden
OpenMRS Wikimedia Foundation Wordpress Drupal World Wide Web
Consortium (W3) Code for America Mifos (The community of open
source micro finance)
