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Hi all,<br>
<br>
For those who haven't seen, I wanted to send out the WoMoz Update that
was published on the WoMoz Blog and on Planet Mozilla a few days ago.<br>
<br>
This way, you can all follow the latest news and accomplishments that
we've done in the Women & Mozilla project.<br>
<br>
Here it is:<br>
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<p>Time for a (long overdue) overview of what has been happening in the
<a href="http://www.womoz.org">Women & Mozilla</a> project since
our last update.</p>
<p>Mainly, we have been very busy with accomplishing the tasks from our
<a
href="http://womoz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=fosdem2010_daily_agenda#roadmap_2010">2010
WoMoz Roadmap</a>, just as we had <a
href="http://www.womoz.org/blog/?p=287">planned and announced</a>.
Here are some more details concerning this long-term task, as well as
our other activities:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>2010 Roadmap</strong>
<ul>
<li><strong>What has been done</strong></li>
<p>We have successfully accomplished the first steps of our
Roadmap and followed our predetermined milestones accordingly. Only the
survey is taking us longer to create than we expected (especially
concerning the elaboration of the survey questions), while some future
tasks have been started in advance, such as working on creating a
Newcomers Team and mentorship program.<br>
So what does this mean concretely?<br>
We have mainly worked internally, contacting leaders throughout the
various – and numerous – Mozilla communities in order to find out who
and where the Mozilla women contributors are. This first phase permits
us now to have a general and more accurate idea of who these women are,
what they work in, how long they have been contributing, as well as the
proportion of women and men in these teams (list to be published soon).<br>
We know of course that it is difficult to find *all* the contributors,
however this will help us gain a much better overview and perspective
than we had before.<br>
Concerning the Newcomers Team and mentorship program, we are currently
brainstorming on ways to integrate this idea within the general Mozilla
project. You may find notes concerning these ideas and this projects on
our Meeting Notes page here: <a
href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/WoMoz/StatusMeetings">https://wiki.mozilla.org/WoMoz/StatusMeetings</a></p>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>What still needs to be done</strong></li>
<p>As mentioned above, we still need to finish elaborating the
internal survey questions. This survey will be distributed amongst the
women contributors in Mozilla that we have contacted and that have
contacted us as well. We will also elaborate a specific survey for the
Mozilla women employees.<br>
The main goal of this survey is to have an overview of the profile of
the women working and contributing in Mozilla, as well as their
activities and perceptions in the institution.<br>
The purpose of the survey will be to detect areas of improvement
related to gender issues in Mozilla and FLOSS communities for further
actions and to give more visibility to women’s work.<br>
More info and notes about <a
href="http://womoz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=survey#internal_external_mozilla_surveys">the
survey can be found here.</a></p>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>WoMoz side-tasks<br>
</strong></li>
<p>As you can notice, our blog has a new theme now. It still has some
minor issues and bugs to fix, however the theme is practically ready to
rock & roll! A big and special thanks to Béatrice Kreng and Julia
Buchner for having dedicated so much of their time on this. <img
src="cid:part1.05000907.03050200@mozilla-europe.org" alt=":)"
class="wp-smiley"><br>
Also, we are currently working on a fun Fortune package that we would
like to integrate into Linux distributions. It will basically be like
the Wanda Fortune Fish that already exists on Ubuntu for example, with
quotations from famous women.<br>
A more detailed list of <a
href="http://womoz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=todo_list">our side-tasks can
be found here.</a></p>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>What we still need help with</strong></li>
<p>The two main areas were we still need help and volunteers with
are: writing articles on the blog and making videos. If you are
interested in helping out, please don’t hesitate to contact us or leave
a comment below.</p>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Update on the number of community members &
contributors</strong>
<ul>
<li>Mailing List -> 80 people</li>
<li>Wiki Members -> 28 registered users</li>
<li>IRC -> around 15 online (during European Time Zone)</li>
<li>Facebook WoMoz Fan Page -> 140 fans</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>More info and details about the WoMoz Project:</strong>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/WoMoz/StatusMeetings">Our
Meeting Notes</a></li>
<li>Directly on <a href="http://www.womoz.org/">our Website</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>As always, feel free to join us for <a
href="http://womoz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=calendar#womoz_meetings">our
meetings</a> if you’re interested! They’re open to *all* and any
suggestions for the project are welcome.</p>
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Delphine</pre>
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