Community category
The finalists in the community category represent women who work or volunteer on open source projects. This year's finalists are:
She advocates for inclusivity in open source and organises meetups for women through Women Who Go. At her first meetup, participants made contributions to large projects like Node.js that were accepted. She gives talks on topics such as container technology, getting started with Linux, contributing to software communities as part of your job, and the art of closing issues and pull requests. She also started a conference for open source maintainers called maintainerati.org.
She was a co-chair of the Open Source Track at Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in 2010 and co-chair of the conference’s Open Source Day in 2011 and 2012. She builds solutions exclusively using open source technologies like Git, Postgres, OpenACS, Django, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, OpenShift, CentOS, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
The finalists in the academic category represent women who are full-time students currently enrolled in a college or university. This year's finalists include:
Voting for the winners close today, 6 March 2017. Voting is open to the public. Winners will be announced at Red Hat Summit 2017, taking place from 2-4 May 2017 in Boston.
For more, go to www.redhat.com/womeninopensource.