Women Wiki

The women@apache group was formed to help women become active in projects at Apache. The InitialCharter page summarizes the original goals -- but that's just a starting point! Feel free to add any interesting, useful or relevant information to this Wiki. For more details, contact the women@ list.

women@ starting points

• HOWTO Encourage Women (in Linux) - a good starting point

• FLOSSPOLS Gender: Integrated Report of Findings (March 1, 2006)

• Some suggestions of what NotToDo

Other Groups

• Debian Women - Debian's chartered project to "actively engage with interested women and encouraging them to become more involved with Debian."

• Fedora Women - "Fedora Women aims to provide a central forum and point of support for the often under-represented side of Fedora's Community. "

• KDE Women - "KDE-Women is about building a community of female KDE contributors and users."

• LinuxChix - "LinuxChix is a community for women who like Linux, and for women and men who want to support women in computing."

• GNOME Women - "GNOME Women is a group dedicated to providing encouragement for women to contribute to GNOME, a free and open-source Linux/Unix desktop suite."

• Ubuntu-Women - "Ubuntu-Women is a team functioning under Ubuntu to provide a platform and encouragement for women to contribute to Ubuntu-Linux, a Debian based free and open-source GNU/Linux software."

Wiki starting points

Interesting starting points:

• RecentChanges: see where people are currently working

• WikiSandBox: feel free to change this page and experiment with editing

• FindPage: search or browse the database in various ways

• SyntaxReference: quick access to wiki syntax

• SiteNavigation: get an overview over this site and what it contains

How to use this site

A Wiki is a collaborative site, anyone can contribute and share:

• Edit any page by pressing Edit at the top or the bottom of the page

• Create a link to another page with joined capitalized words (like WikiSandBox) or with ["quoted words in brackets"]

• Search for page titles or text within pages using the search box at the top of any page

• See HelpForBeginners to get you going, HelpContents for all help pages.

To learn more about what a WikiWikiWeb is, read about WhyWikiWorks and the WikiNature. Also, consult the WikiWikiWebFaq.

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