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Mitchell Baker Joins Ada Initiative Advisory Board

Par Delphine Lebédel le vendredi, mars 4 2011, 02:12 - mozilla

Awesome news: join us in congratulating Mitchell for joining the Ada Initiative Advisory Board!

For those who haven't yet heard of the Ada Initiative, it is a

non-profit organization dedicated to increasing participation of women in open technology and culture, which includes open source software, Wikipedia and other open data, and open social media.

The founders of the project are Mary Gardiner and Valerie Aurora, who both have a great experience in Free and Open Source, and have worked with various women in FLOSS groups during many years.

You may find more details concerning the Ada Initiative programs on their projects page as well as their services page.

Again, a big congratulations to Mitchell for joining! We can't wait to hear more about what will be achieved, and have no doubt of the success of this project.

Other announcements concerning Mitchell joining the advisory board:

http://adainitiative.org/2011/03/welcoming-mitchell-baker-to-our-advisory-board/

http://twitter.com/#!/adainitiative/status/43085926854950912

http://twitter.com/#!/MitchellBaker/status/42821928947433472

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Bonjour WoMoz Now Live

Par Delphine Lebédel le jeudi, février 17 2011, 15:40 - mozilla

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Bonjour Mozilla - the famous French website that has recently been translated into English as well (that is, mainly the posts that highlight Mozilla community members) - has given birth to a new section last week: Bonjour WoMoz!

Every Thursday, our magnificent journalist and WoMoz contributor Claire Corgnou will publish a new post that portrays a woman from Mozilla or a project, with the idea to give more visibility to women and to the work they accomplish. I will translate her work into English right under the French version, as is done for the Bonjour Mozilla.

Today is the 2nd time that a Bonjour WoMoz appears. And this is just the start of a very long series! If you've missed the first post, you can head on over here to see it.

So let's just add: Bonjour WoMoz, and Bonjour Claire! A great thanks to you.

NB If you have pictures of Mozilla women contributors / employees that we can publish on the Bonjour WoMoz (or the Bonjour Mozilla in general as a matter of fact), please feel free to send them to Claire: claire.corgnou at gmail dot com. Needless to say, please only send pictures with appropriate licenses and of people who accept to appear online. Thanks!

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Back from FOSDEM 2011

Par Delphine Lebédel le jeudi, février 10 2011, 17:45 - mozilla

I can't find a word to describe this year's FOSDEM. "Wow", "Awesome", "Cool", "Fun", "Beer", and so much more. Is there just one word for all that? Ah yeah: "FOSDEM"

This event is still by far my favorite free and open source event. All the things you can learn, do, and see just in 2 days is amazing. I still haven't got over it. And that's probably the reason why I'll keep on going in the years to come.

Anyways, this is not the point. This year in the "Mozilla Devroom" were held many interesting talks. We were less Mozillians than during previous years (as Tristan already explained, Mozilla only sponsored speakers this year), but this permitted more interaction with the other free software projects present, which was really a big positive point.

As I had announced before the event, we held a quick-but-efficient Women & Mozilla meet-up on Saturday afternoon, which was really interesting and fruitful. There were 3 main ideas that we discussed there, and that we will progressively put into action:

We need to develop and maintain more our communication tools. Our blog and video website need more regular content and more authors
We should create a twitter account, in order to reach out to as many people as possible
We should consider dropping our mailing list for a forum

(more info about all this on the WoMoz mailing list. Archives are public)

I gave my talk on Sunday afternoon, presenting the Women & Mozilla project, explaining what we had done during 2010 and what was to come in 2011. You can find the slides here. Everything went well (in spite of the outer-space experience of Saturday night and the inevitable not-so-great-feeling the next day we all had to experience

) and the comments and feedback I received were really interesting and useful. A big thanks to all of you present!

So this sums up pretty much my experience of this year's FOSDEM. And as always, I can't wait for next year's.

(Picture by Vivien Nicolas, featured on Bonjour Mozilla during FOSDEM)

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