My Name is Dr. Sarah Kaiser and I am a researcher and quantum technologist
I’m currently located in Seattle, WA, USA, but have lived in Waterloo, Canada and Sydney, Australia in the last 10 years.
I work on a lot of diversity efforts in my own field of quantum computing and am always looking to improve and learn more about what tools and prior art exists to help make my communities better. I have long been a part of groups like PyLadies and RLadies and I fell in love with what inclusive, open source communities can look like.
I am a big advocate of open source software, as well as open science and diversity in tech. I work for a company who cares and does a lot for the open source community. I co-chair the D&I committee at my company, as well as the AnitaB.org Mentorship Program. I am new to being a code contributor — recently working on some PRs for a few of my favorite libraries. I would love to contribute to the efforts to make open source community a more diverse and more welcoming place for anyone.
I have a background in humanities and computer science. I work in the domains of data science, AI/NLP and actively participate in discussions, initiatives, and various organizations’ efforts for responsible AI and AI ethics. I am located in Austin, TX and happy to have discovered this great group.
I’m Mariangélica Useche. I’m from Venezuela but currently living in Colombia. I work at BUREA.app as a Software Developer (full stack). I have a blog (Spanish) where I share what I’m learning.
This forum looks awesome, there’s so many extraordinary people here!
I advocate open source software whenever possible, and also develop and manage a FOSS project Seamly. Previous to Seamly, patternmaking tools were 100% proprietary and prohibitively expensive. Our user community is globally diverse, from Kazakhstan to Guyana to Fiji, with a balanced gender distribution. We’re looking for ways to increase the diversity of our code contributors, community managers, and translators.
My background is network security and global network management. I’ve presented at Libre Graphics Meeting, Open Tech Summit Berlin, Sage Assembly Shenzhen & Seattle, Museum of Design Atlanta plus others, and conducted workshops at Media-Lab Prado Madrid.
I just signed up, so feel free to give me a helping hand when you see me posting something in the wrong place or such.
My name is Rhonda, my pronouns are she/her, I live in Vienna/Austria/Europe. I am part of the Debian community since 20 years now, was pushed into starting the Diversity Team within the Debian community four years ago, and am still trying to find ways to make the Debian community a more diverse place - because we all know, Free Software lives and thrives so much through diversity of ideas for projects, and diverse backgrounds and thus different experiences and approaches to things help with that so so very much.
I’m trans feminine, bisexual, white, able-bodied, had access to good education, have a well payed job in a country that is quite save. I’m 47 and had a fair share of time on my own to think about stuff. I have a 10 year old kid and want to create a better world worth living in for everyone. I’m also a good hugger I’ve been told.
Looking forward for exchanging ideas how to create more welcoming and inclusive environments!
I’m Dustin (he/him), and I work at Mozilla. I live in upstate NY in the US (halfway between NYC and Montreal). I’ve been writing, reading, and using OSS since the beginning of forever, and have been continuously amazed by the people I have met doing so. I appreciate the communal, public-benefit parts of open source, but it’s the people that really make me stick around.
I’ve had a chance at Mozilla to work on some things that support and enhance the diversity of people working in open source (and at Mozilla), and I’d like to do more. Hopefully I can connect with some collaborators and great ideas here.
I’m Carol, also known as cybette, and I’ve been lurking in the foss-diversity Matrix room for quite a while, so I thought I’d better say hi here.
Been working at Red Hat since early 2016 in several open source projects, most recently Ansible. We’ve been trying to raise D&I awareness and efforts within Red Hat as well as in the community.
My experiences with open source go back quite a bit, and instead of boring you with all the details here, feel free to check out the piece I shared with IMakeFOSS last month.
I grew up in Singapore, am currently based in Finland, and spent 11 years in Texas in between. I have many diverse weather/travel/culture stories to share
Hey team,
I am Edwin Zimba from Zambia. I am a community manager working with Living Open Source Foundation working across some African Countries that include Zambia,Malawi, Rwanda, Ethopia, Cameroon and soon will be in Nigeria. I am happy to convine with like minded individuals and hope to learn more from this awesome team here and hoping to engage with all.
do check about the works www.livingopensource.africa
Hi folks, I’m charles a systems engineer and technician for CT scanner robot production (severs and networking systems). I also have a long history of working independently as a freelance tech support engineer and consultant for Non-profits and activists over the last 15yrs.
Nomadic african originally from Ghana but have lived in multiple nations I feel comfortable in as extra homes on the continent. Corrently based in the US.
Looking into going back to work in the OpenSource based solutions to industries that could be best advanced using technology to leapforg hurdles to constructive development for the massas in ways that are calibrated to their local needs.
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I’ve been keenly following and supporting activists in their struggles around the world over the years and through sharing tools and sometimes organising the delivery of tools to implement them. (With a preference for opensource tools which can be modified as needed)
Things i’m interested in;
Agriculture
Medical services (Software and hardware)
Networking systems (Hardware and distributed cloud solutions)
Communications (decentralisation and encryption)
I’m Jason. I live in Thane, India. I’m 42, and looking to change careers into programming.
I’m an old dog, who was in support, administration and middle management in past lives.
I came here to hear and learn more about diversity, specially from young voices
I want to do better.
My young friend Priyanka Saggu referred me here.
I try to be a good listener. So if you need something that needs working through, (with some constructive suggestions based on my past experiences), I am willing to lend a helpful ear.
Warmest,
Jason
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Hello World!, my name is Wilson Kasitu from Zambia, I happy to be part of the community to learn and contribute where possible. I bet it will be an awesome experience…
Hi everyone,
my name is Peggy Sylopp from Berlin, have a background in sound art, computer science and public policy.
I am the scientific researcher and founder of the former liktetohear, now “The Open Hearing Project”, open innovation for hearing support.
I’m super happy to be part of the Open Source Diversity community and looking forward for exchange with you all dears
I am Jayashree. In the IT industry for about 20 years +. I am passionate about contributing to community. Recent times , I see a lot of professionals not being treated equally…and hence want to collaborate with you all to make a difference
Hello! I’m Monica Ayhens-Madon, and I’m the new(newish?) Ubuntu Community Representative at Canonical. Been a contributor to open source for just over a year now, especially in onboarding documentation (web sites, wikis) and endearingly annoying people into making things happen. Oh, and tea-themed events!
As part of my day job, I’m working with inclusive naming changes and guidelines, as well as brainstorming ways to make a sustainable AND inclusive community. Really looking forward to working with fellow community-types in open source and desktop Linux, and to get involved in a professional capacity as well!
Hello Everyone, my name is Victory Brown. I’m from Nigeria. I started my tech journey last year during the pandemic. I wasn’t so sure of what I wanted to do in the tech field at first. I started coding (just basic HTML and CSS knowledge). I also took a projects management course. I’m also drawn to organizing and management roles.
Then I felt the need to be a little more involved in the creativity process. Once I figured out what I wanted to do, I started my journey in User Experience design.
I became a part of the Open source community last year, after the Hacktober fest. I’ve had a bit of problem contributing to open source projects, because of my non-technical skills and not really understanding much of what it was about.
I recently attended a conference this year, that kind of sparked my interest in Diversity and Inclusion In projects and establishments.
Being a member of Underrepresented groups, I am interested in this and finding ways to bridge the gaps and creating environments that are void of harassments and Biases in and out of Open source communities.
My name is Andi Artz and I’m part of Fedora community. I am on several Fedora teams (QA, D&I, i3-spin, AskFedora, Fedora Podcast).
I am using Fedora since the release of Fedora 27/28.
Opensource and D&I is an important aspect. I hope that I am going to learn other members here about their work and experiences in Linux/BSD communities.
I’m currently located in Seattle, WA, USA, but have lived in Waterloo, Canada and Sydney, Australia in the last 10 years.
