A presentation I originally gave at the 5th Girl Geek Dinner Milano October 24th, 2008 with the contribution of Bruna Gardella. An introduction to Open Source, the world of women and Open Source, and the Girl Geek and Open Source. * What is Open Source (OS) * Why Open Source * Open Source in the world * The Girl Geek and the Open Source World * How to Contribute * Appendix A: Some Open Source Alternatives for Proprietary Software

1. Open Source and the Girl Geeks Girl Geek Dinners Milano 24 October, 2008 with the contribution of Bruna Gardella and the support of the team GGD Milano Sara Rosso

3. What is Open Source?

8. The Four Foundation Rights of GPL Rif. [12]

9. Use it at your Discretion

10. Study and Modify it (even the source code)

11. D istribute the Original Software (copy and share)

12. D istribute the modified software (even the source code)

14. Why Open Source …today? Economic Crisis Less Budget! OS Skills in demand!!!

17. Open Source is Growing !!!

18. New Open Source Projects Rif. [2]

19. Total Open Source Projects Rif. [2]

20. Where are the Women?

21. Presence of Women in Proprietary Software [Rif. 1]

22. Presence of Women in Open Source Software [Rif. 1]

23. There are Women… Linux Chix KDE Women * elenco nel l’ appendice A

24. And the Girl Geek?

25. Navigates with Reads RSS feeds with

26. Transfers the photos to her site via FTP with Modifies images/photos with Writes a post on her blog with

27. Uses OpenOffice to write and manage her important documents Manages her projects with GANTTProject Creates PDF with pdfforge

28. Condivide i video GGD peer-to-peer con Transmission Chats with her friends with Pidgin/Adium Watches a film with VLC

29. The world of Open Source is close to the Girl Geek Why not get Closer?

30. How to Contribute

31. Before Contributing...

43. Ready??

44. Sara Rosso [email_address]

48. Appendix A: Some Open Source Alternatives for Proprietary Software