OWF-GED Poll

Retro-planning

Task	A	ETA	Check
Identification of the targets	all	mid-feb
Poll conception	Marie	mid-feb
Tools definition	Véronique + Marine	mid-feb
Poll realization	all	end of February
Results collection		end of April
Results analysis	(all – organization of meetings)	mid-may

Questions

at the begining We are organizing a conference end of september - open world forum You can come to get the results of this poll The processing of this poll is completely anonymous.

at the end of the questionary

• function
• age (less than 20 - 20 to 30 - 30 to 40 - 40 to 50 - 50 to 60 - more than 60)
• gender
• country of origin
• level of education (school, graduation, bachelor, master, phd)
• education discipline(IT, other science and techology, human science (law, economy, business,litterature), art, other)
• do you have children living at home?
• if yes, how many?
• Do you have a profession linked with
  • IT?
  • Floss?
  • education/research?
  • others

• Any comments are welcome:...
• would you be interested in follow-up interviews
• if yest can you please give us your email

Comunities

• qualitative questions to Comunities leaders / responsible of women sections
  • % of women among:
    • your contributors
      • technical?
      • non technical?
    • your committers
    • your board

• • How does someone become a contributor, a committer, a manager of your comunity?
  • Does this apply the same way for non-technical contributions?

• • Why did you create a women association within your comunity? (give us the 3 most important reasons

• quantitative
  • in which community are you mainly involved (1 answer)?
  • in this community, are you: a contributor, a committer, a manager?
  • for how long have you been involved in this community? (less than 1 year, 1-2 years, 2-5 years, more than 5 years)
  • during your last working week, how often did you work on free software? (every day, several times a week, one time or less a week)
  • which main type of contribution do you offer (coding, debugging, documentation, testing,...)
  • when do you mainly contribute: (working hours, before/after works, nights, weekend)
  • why do you contribute (2 main reasons)? (profesional reasons, personal interest (I'am using the software), philantropy, hobby, to socialize, training, being part of a collective project)
  • do you face problems to contribute? (lack of time, integration problems, skills,not enough aknowledgement, others
  • Regarding your collaboration with others during your floss activites, have you ever observed or experienced distriminatory behaviour for the following reasons: (yes/no)
    • gender
    • education
    • age
    • ethnic
    • politics
    • time zone
    • connectivity
    • culture
    • involvement
    • others, precise:....

FLOSS Companies

• size of the company (less than 10 people - 10 to 50- 50 to 250 - more than 250)
• country of origin
• funding (private - VC - public )
• What % of women do you have in:
  • your company? (less than 10% - 10 to 20% - 20 to 30% - 30 to 50% - more than 50%)
  • your management team? (idem)
  • your marketing/communication department? (idem)
  • your R&D department? (idem)
  • your board? (idem)
• Do you offer remote working options for your team? (yes/no)
• Do you think it would be positive to have more women in your team? (yes/non/ don't know)
  • if yes, give us the main reason why (collaboration improvement, code quality, team spirit, for documentation tasks, other)
  • if yes, does your company have a plan to promote gender equity? (yes/no)
    • if you have no plan, is this topic discussed in your company?

Community contacts

• National Center for women and Information Technology
• Girls in Tech, Adriana Gascoigne, founder
• Institue for women and technology, Anita Borg, http://www.ictwomendirectory.eu, http://www.womenandtechnology.eu
• IT Girls (founded by Viviane Redding): http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/itgirls/index_en.htm