From Sulamita Garcia, LinuxChix Brasil (www.linuxchix.org.br). Forwarded from LinuxChix Announce list.
There are other FISL and OSS topics at http://infomediatv.terra.com.br but I'm not sure if they all have translation into other languages. Regards Jacqueline
Hi I would like to announce the Panel "Howto encourage women to CONTRIBUTE in FOSS world", to be broadcast in live from http://infomediatv.terra.com.br/fisl/ website. The session will happens next 20th, at 19hs GMT-3. We made arrangements to have english translation for the internet, and would be very nice to have your thoughts and opinions. Here's the abstract: There is a lot of discussion about the women involvement in IT and in FOSS community. Actual articles and studies show new facts about this, as the research telling about the time that computer science raise the number of students and created this huge gap, and the consequences of it. But in some places, as India, Malaysia and (in a minor scale) Brasil, there is more equality in this. Brasil has become some kind of reference of women involved in FOSS. We want to transform this involvement in actual code, even with all situation that cause few brazilian developers and contributors, men or women: the language barrier, lack of quality education and access to technology, and focus in politics or philosophy instead training and qualification. Despite of that, we believe we can contribute more. How can we encourage more women to contribute in FOSS world? We going to talk about actions, attitude, initiatives and what had transformed lurkers in involvers, and how to transform involvers in developers and contributors.
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