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Many women have already gathered and created official groups in various open source projects: Ubuntu Women, PHP Women, GNOME Women, DrupalChix, and many others.

 

Up until today, there existed no “Mozilla group” dedicated to improving women's visibility.

Instead of creating yet another women's group and dividing things up even more, we have decided to create a meeting point where women / men / existing women's group / anyone interested by the project can join and suggest ideas. 

And here you are :)

 

Why a "women's project"?

 

“I am what I am because of what we are all” (Ubuntu)

“Internet by the people, for the people” (Mitchell Baker)

 

FLOSS projects are very often created and developed by their contributors and by a passion-driven community of volunteers. This is why it seems more interesting to gather a large and diversified community around a project.

 

The aim of this project and wiki is to promote women's involvement in the FLOSS world in general - and in Mozilla's teams more particularly - as well as increase awareness around this issue. Anyone can participate - women, men, members of existing women's groups,… - united in this common goal.

See : http://www.womoz.org/