Clarista

I'd like to give a talk about FLOSS and the Average Jane and Joe. I want to convince "geeks" that they should make some efforts to welcome "normal people", because geeks need Average Jane or Joe to understand what the public really wants or needs. It's the only way to really open the Web! So, of course, I will explain what geeks can do to attract "normal people", in order to attract more into FLOSS community. To attend to this talk you only need your sense of humor :-)

Clarissa would like to convince "geeks" that they need "normal people". She wants to convince geeks about what an Average Jane or Joe can bring to FLOSS, because she wants geeks to make some efforts to welcome them.

Indeed, it has been quite difficult for her to enter the community. Difficult, but not impossible! And now, she simply loves FLOSS. So she'd like to explain how Mozillians managed to catch her attention. And which kind of contributions geeks can propose to "normal people" to attract them, and to keep them in the community... You'll see that Average Jane or Joe can be useful ;-) She thinks geeks need Average Jane or Joe to understand what the public really wants or needs. It's the only way to really open up the Web! So throughout this talk, she will explain what you can do to attract "normal people".

Women & Mozilla (WoMoz) is a community driven project that aims at improving diversity and giving more visibility to women within Mozilla and FLOSS. This talk will be the occasion to go over the different projects that were launched since WoMoz was created: education, conferences, workshops, mentoring... are only a few of the areas that we've covered over the past year. This will also be the opportunity to engage in a discussion with the participants, in order to know how we can continue growing, and to gather ideas and feedback for future projects in the years to come.

Other people: Delphine Lebédel