Bringing More Women to Free and Open
Source Software
Emily Chen
March 30, 2014
OSTC 2014
I am
Founder
GNOME Foundation Board 2010-2011
CSDN advisor
Senior Software Engineer in Oracle
- 25% of all software developers
- 18% of students
- 3% in FOSS, generally
- in Gsoc 2006, 0/181 applicants
- OSTC 2014, 1/32 speaker
GNOME Participation in
Google Summer of Code
Total Women
2005 11 0
2006 20 0
2007 29 1
2008 30 1
2009 25 0
2010 21 1
GUADEC 2009: 4% women
In 2012, 5 out of 29 GsoC
participants were women.
In 2013, 6 out of 32 GSoC
participants were women.
GUADEC 2012: 17% women
GUADEC 2013: 18% women
Growing Participation by Women
GUADEC speakers
● 4 out of 58 in 2012 => 7%
● 10 out of 47 in 2013 => 21%
GUADEC attendees
● 8 out of 160 in 2009 => 5%
● 41 out of 247 in 2012 => 17%
● 41 out of 223 in 2013 => 18%
Kevin Carillo's Newcomers Survey
Organizations: Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Gentoo, GNOME,
KDE, Mozilla, NetBSD, OpenSUSE, Python, Ubuntu, Wikimedia
Newcomers: people who joined the project in the last 3 years and
stayed involved
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Organization Total Participants Women Percentage Women
GNOME 44 22 50%
All Other 321 20 6% (0-15% range)
How we do it!
Address women directly
Accept non-students and non-coders
Connect women with mentors
Require a contribution as part of the application
Provide a sample e-mail, social network update and
a flyer for people to help spread the word
During the program
Encourage manageable tasks that can land
throughout the internship period
Require participants to blog and incorporate their
blogs on planets
IRC channel and meetings
Sponsored travel where possible
After the program
Continue mentor relationships
Pursue other free software opportunities
Present at conferences
Becoming mentors, answer questions, and spread
the word
Value and understand free software, even if they
move on to something else
OPW Mentors
OPW Interns
Better mentorship
opportunities for all
Debian Deltacloud EFF Fedora GNOME
Jboss Joomla KDE Linux Kernel
MediaGoblin Mozilla NESCent Perl Open
Technology Institute OpenITP OpenMRS
OpenStack Open Source Robotics
Foundation Subversion Tor Twisted
Wikimedia Wikia Wordpress
Contributions in Linux Kernel
Upcoming
Next OPW round – June, 2014
GSoC anniversary round!
Ada Initiative has started corporate training
How you can help
Help spread the word
Get your organization to offer internships
Get your company to sponsor internships
Donate to the GNOME Foundation
% in 2011
% in 2012
% in 2013
12% in 2014 ?
GSoC
Award for Projects of Social Benefit
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