Speaker

Jigyasa Grover

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Red Hat Women in Open Source Academic Award Winner 2017, Jigyasa Grover is an avid open-source enthusiast engaged with the prestigious Google Summer of Code as a student developer and now as an organisation administrator and mentor with Pharo Consortium and FOSSASIA. A budding researcher in making, Jigyasa has worked at National Research Council of Canada as a Mitacs Globalink Research Scholar and at L’Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) France as an ESUG Scholar.
A feminist by heart, Jigyasa has been passionately working to help bridge gender gap in technology being involved as the Director of Women Who Code Delhi since a handful of years. She has delivered tech talks at FOSSASIA OpenTech Summit Singapore in 2016 & 2017, Society of Women Engineers Annual Conference 2016, WWC Regional Leadership Summit India 2016 and Women Techmakers Meet apart from virtually holding sessions for Silicon Angle, United Nations ITU, Deine Korrespondentin, Google Developers Group and Open Source Help Community. In her quest to build a community of young developers she mentors the aspiring in global programs like Rails Girls Summer of Code, Google Code- In, ‘Learn IT, Girl !' & CodeHeat.
FOSS it up, with women !

The world of open-source is attracting budding developers to contribute & enrich this sphere, but unfortunately there seems to be a highly skewed sex-ratio which is perturbing nonetheless. According to a recent survey by Toptotal, only 11% of open-source participants and developers are women. This might be due to the fact that women especially find it intimidating to get started with contributing to open source. The speaker wishes to back them up solidly by answering questions, throwing light on the issues that they usually have. It aims at introducing the audience to the world of FOSS and elaborate the vast range of opportunities available. The speaker shall converse her involvements and experiences in Open Source with a handful of organisations and its impact. A special emphasis shall be on the dearth of women in technology. The talk aspires to inspire budding girl developers and showcase women who’ve made significant contributions to technology.