{"id":228,"date":"2011-07-26T14:15:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T14:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyoteblog.posterous.com\/more-women-developingpromoting-foss"},"modified":"2021-05-12T13:29:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T20:29:56","slug":"more-women-developingpromoting-foss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2011\/07\/more-women-developingpromoting-foss\/","title":{"rendered":"More women developing\/promoting FOSS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/webworld\/en\/oer\">Abel CAINE, OER Programme Specialist at UNESCO<\/a>,  in charge of coordinating the OER Community on the WSIS Platform, says  in the online group for this community, &#8220;we had a discussion on how OER  Initiatives should practice what they preach and use open software  tools. For those of you who are interested in <strong>free and open source software AND would like to help in increasing the number of women who are developing or promoting FOSS<\/strong>, please join the new &#8220;Gender and FOSS Community&#8221; at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsis-community.org\/pg\/groups\/329964\/gender-equality-in-free-and-open-source-software-foss\/\" class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\">http:\/\/www.wsis-community.org\/pg\/groups\/329964\/gender-equality-in-free-and-open-source-software-foss\/<\/a>.  The Community which is managed by the UNESCO FOSS Programme aims at  creating a network of different institutions, networks and actors that  deal with the Gender Gap in FOSS. Please contact my colleague, Mr.  Davide Storti (<a href=\"mailto:d.storti@unesco.org\" class=\"moz-txt-link-abbreviated\">d.storti@unesco.org<\/a>) for more information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also see this walk down memory lane: photos from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jaynecravens\/sets\/72157600155680428\/with\/476665335\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) Telecenter at WSIS 2003 Geneva<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tags<\/strong>: <span style=\"color:#808080;\"><em>women, gender, woman, girls, ICT4D, UNESCO, WSIS, information, communication, communications, ICT, collaboration, community, engagement, OER, development, developing, FOSS, online, Internet, open, software, source, Africa, Asia, South America, Latin America<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abel CAINE, OER Programme Specialist at UNESCO, in charge of coordinating the OER Community on the WSIS Platform, says in the online group for this community, &#8220;we had a discussion on how OER Initiatives should practice what they preach and use ope&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supporting-people-a-community-a-cause","category-tech-tools"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fFJB-3G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6350,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/6350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}