Dear Friends, FSFTN is happy to announce a new initiative called SWIFT(SWIFT Women In Free Technologies) to encourage women's participation in learning and contributing to Free Software Technologies.
The initiative was launched with the aim of addressing the gender gap in the area of free software. This is especially relevant in Tamil Nadu where the restrictive educational environment can be a barrier to the involvement and contribution of women to technological advancement with a social perspective While FSFTN has conducted workshops for women in Wikipedia and experimented with a Rails Girls initiative before, this marks a planned and systematic attempt at engaging with women students and professionals. The first event of the initiative was attended by Chennai-based women FSFTN volunteers and women participants of previous FSFTN programmes. The two-day event saw the participants trying their hand at Python and Git and resolving to meet regularly to carry forward this initiative. In the coming days, the SWIFT initiative will also engage FSFTN volunteers and interested students and professionals in other districts in order to spread this important cause. If you would like to work for SWIFT, please mail: sw...@fsftn.org The photos of the event and the logo of our initiative are here: http://s902.photobucket.com/user/fsftn/library/2014/SWIFT Regards Nappinnai FSFTN _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
