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Michelle Murrian
Nonprofit Open Source Initiative
Linuxchix.org
Drupalchix - great place for Drupal advice
Drupal and Joomla have attracted a variety of women
Nonprofit open source - NP OS Initiative has been around about 10 years. NP has larger involvement. Pretty friendly.
Lot of OS communities have rep of being snarky, but not so in NP.
Open Medical Record Ssytem - been very supportive
Easier get invovled in communities like this

How get more women in Open Source
Have to break stereotypes
Provide avenues like Linuxchix and Drupalchix for learning and support
Recruit more women who are in nonprofit sector to work on OS projects
Help open source projects examine their cultures in terms of sexism, etc.

Amy De Groff
Howard County Library
Public Library System in central MD
316 patron computer with Ubuntu
400 staff computer with Ubuntu
Expectations of libraries have changed; many more libraries
Can make computers do what we want
3 web browsers - FF, Opera, Konquerer
Lower cost
Have partners in community; UG use their space [great idea]
Use Groovix version system-wide $25.00 -> $.83 / computer
Use computers until die

Amanda Steinberg
Soapbxx
Under hood of Joomla
User-frienly
Alternatives Drupal, Plone and Radiant
DailyWorth - side project of hers
http://dailyworth.com/
Very cool looking site! Want to explore it more. Personal finance email for women. Great use of OS!
"free daily personal finance email for women. We deliver practical tips, empowering ideas and the occasional kick in the pants."
Example of adding module -- in this case "Most Popular" module (extension)

Last minute speaker...
Zaheda Bhorat
Google Open Source Programs Manager
Speaking on Open Office
Work on
Porting and localization
Huge participation around world
If you're going to attract audience, market (?) the project
Took some of best practices in other projects and applied to open source
Metrics used - Google measured their performance, e.g. how active is project
Later found having metrics was very useful, e.g. to media could say grew from 300 to 3000 posts over 6 months
Focused on fostering community
Her role moving away from hands on to listening to community and directing project.
Documentation project, and other projects
First open source project to have a PR team
Looking at standards -- how critical they are -- as critical as code we write
When it comes to women in OS -- the whole community is gender, race, etc., agnostic
Contrib based on skill set and project needs
Recognize shortage of women
Were some women in leadership, but not nearly as many
"Would love to see best practices in your communities apply those to host of other areas."

Amy called Zaheda a pioneer.

QUESTIONS
What bz models work for OS?
Amanda - her consultancy (Soapbxx) works
What has NOT worked -- Joomla extension, invested thousands and loaded into community; implemented $10 download;
has not worked.
Michelle
There are so many different models, from CMS with non-profit org supports with ecosystem of developers, etc.
Other models are corporate -- support open source.
Others supported by govt
Really ranges. It's all over the map

What if you don't have a lot of experience coding?
Zaheda - very modular. Needed project mgt skills.
Also documentation and UI - feedback on what works and not
Adoption and communication about project
E.g. get Firefox campaign.
Amy
Training, talking, education -- e.g. blogging about what you've heard today -- the value of OS software.