[Womoz] Our research on women in FLOSS

[Delphine]

Hello all,

I wanted to get back to this ongoing task as we've hit the milestone 
today  :)

The list of women Mozilla contributors is *almost* finished but I'm 
still waiting for a few last confirmations from some of the teams. This 
should be done very soon though.

So we can now start working on the survey phase. As you can see from 
Mariana's document below, it would be great to start working on 
elaborating the questions for the short online internal survey (closed 
profile questions and open opinion paragraphs)

We had started a wiki page with some survey questions, maybe we can work 
from that as well to see what can be recycled:
http://www.womoz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=survey

There is also an interesting marketing survey in Mozilla that has been 
done very recently and that reveals interesting aspects:
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/5988

For the moment, people interested by this survey project and that we 
have noted down are: Mariana, Kataryzna, Pavel, Myriam, Lukas and me 
(but not on elaborating the questions though... I'm not good enough at 
surveys for that. I can work on localization)

Please let us know if you're still interested. And if your name's not up 
there but you want to join the team, feel free as well!! :)

Thanks

-- 
Delphine



Le 04/03/2010 17:50, Marianyka a écrit :
> Hi!
>
> Since last IRC meeting, we've been working in a document in order to 
> organize the process of our research. As it was establish in the road 
> map, we have two instances: /internal/ and /external/, each of them 
> with its own intention.
>
> We need now to create the working teams, first for the _internal_ and 
> after that, the _survey team_ as shown in the external work flow. So, 
> please let us know who's interested and want to be part of any of them.
>
> cheers,
>
> Mariana
>
>
> *Here's the document:*
>
> *The situation of women in FLOSS*
>
> Womoz is working in a research to understand better the reality of 
> women in FLOSS. The work has been divided in two phases to have a 
> better approach of the community.
>
> *I. Internal - Mozilla community*
> *
> *
> *Goal: *to know who are the women working and contributing in Mozilla 
> at the moment and their activities and perceptions in the institution.
>
> *Purpose*: to detect areas of improvement and to give more visibility.
>
> *Target*: women contributors and employees in Mozilla (present and past).
>
> *Input info:* list of women to contact from the community leaders 
> (output from the first road-map task).
>
> *Measuring instrument:* short online survey - closed profile questions 
> and open opinion paragraphs.
>
> *Milestone:* 15th April.
>
> *Info to gather with the survey: *
>
>     * Personal Profile: age/career/working area at Mz/formal relation
>       with Mz/ ...
>     * Activities done in Mz
>     * Perception of her role as a woman in Mz and in the relation with
>       colleagues.
>     * Difficulties in the daily work due to the gender issues.
>     * Suggestions to improve women experience in Mz.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *II. External - FLOSS community*
> *
> *
> *Goal:* To identify strengths and weaknesses in the relation between 
> women and FLOSS in general and with Mozilla in particular. (We'll 
> probably also see about this when the time comes because we have to 
> work in internal first in order to know what we want to know in 
> external phase)*
>
> *Purpose*: to encourage women participation in Mozilla project and in 
> FLOSS community in general.*
>
> *Target*: women related with technologies in anyway (present and past)*
>
> *Input info:* list of women to contact from the communities related 
> with technologies and gender issues.
>
> *Measuring instrument*: (this decision will depend on the exact 
> definition of the goal and purpose of this research- see the Work Flow)
>
> /* This is just as orientations as all this will be defined in the 
> Step 1, see the Work Flow/
>
> *Milestone*: last quarter 2010
>
> *Work Flow: *
>
> _Step 1. _Defining goals and future applications of the research
>
>     We need to answer some questions that will lead the rest of the
>     activities:
>     What do we want to figure out with this research?
>     Why is it necessary for Womoz?
>     What can we use that info for?
>     What do we intend to do with the results after the research?
>
>     owner ->  all of womoz community
>
>
> _Step 2._ Splitting the goals into parts
>
>     In order to analyse the general goal better, it's advisable to
>     split it into some specific goals. This will automatically guide
>     the kind of measuring instrument that better fits and the info
>     that needs to be gather.
>
>     owner ->  survey team
>
>
> _Step 3._ Choosing and designing the proper measuring instrument
>
>     Depending of the goal and the kind of info needed, it will be
>     necessary to decide between a quantitative or a qualitative data
>     instrument (or some mixed one). There are lots of instruments that
>     could work (polls, surveys, interviews, etc) and the right choice
>     will make the work much easier.
>
>     owner ->  the tech survey team (so the ones in the survey team who
>     are especially competent in doing this)
>
>
> _Step 4. _Analysing the results
>
>     After completing the application of the instrument, it will be
>     necessary to analyse the obtained info. The methodology to extract
>     and process the info will depend on the chosen instrument. It's
>     time to check if the goals were accomplish and to read the info in
>     the results.
>
>     owner -> survey team do the analysis and communicate the results
>     to entire womoz community.
>
>
> _Step 5._ Turning those conclusions into action plans
>
>     Now it's time to interpret what the results are indicating by
>     putting them next to the original goals and purposes of the
>     research . Also, with a very strong background, it's time to apply
>     the results of our research using them to create different actions
>     or even new projects from here. It's also time to publish the
>     results of our research and share them with others communities.
>
>     owner -> entire Womoz  community(or more) participates in thinking
>     over these action plans and concretizing them.
>
>
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-- 
Delphine

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