[puduvailug] Fwd: [Ilugc] FSFTN's SWIFT Initiative

Prasanna Venkadesh <prasmailme@xxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 2 Jan 2015 15:32:17 +0530

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From: <nappinnai@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 2:44 PM
Subject: [Ilugc] FSFTN's SWIFT Initiative
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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:  swift@xxxxxxxxx

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

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Prasanna Venkadesh.

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