 That's good. Thanks for coming. You may wonder why do we look like this? When we were organizing our first meet-up one of the guys suggested that we probably Are going to cook something? Yeah, and then another active member suggested that we would exchange bread recipes What a marvelous idea. We can do that of course But of course we can do other things as well Let's talk about Drupal So my name is Anna my name is Anna, and I'm the founder and CEO of coding girls and I'm Maria Totovl. I'm a Drupal developer from Bulgaria and coding girls for the community leader Gender gap. Oh, no, seriously. Oh Again some feminists talking about discrimination In fact, that's the most common perception that we receive from when we organize our coding girls meet-ups What's wrong? Like what is gender gap? Are there any gender gap? What the gender gap are you talking about? So in this talk, we are going to present the latest research the real number of the of the women in Technology and provide our roadmap on how we can call that To begin with 64% of females are studying stem subject in school. So the interest is pretty much high While the percentage of women studying stem subject at the university is twice less No wonder only 3% of females said that the Korean technology is the first choice As a result, we have only 11% of females that are working engineers According to the latest research according to your start, there are less than 17% of females in the ICT sector another interesting fact that The majority of leadership roles are taken by men less than a half in fact less than 40% of females are In junior as our managers in the EU. What about Drupal? Well, you see here only about 20% of the Drupalist are female and When we we know the Drupal Association are making their best to make the Drupal community more inclusive and diverse and We can help here and we are curious about the number this year I'm very happy to see some ladies But maybe they come just because we are talking about the gender gap. I'll ask you afterwards Yeah Speaking about contributing to Drupal the statistics becomes even worse You see that only 6% of Drupal developers that contribute to Drupal car and Modules and introduce themselves as women. It means that there may be more, but they're not identified But you may wonder what or who stopped this women from entering IT field So according to the survey, there are three major barriers like lack of mentors lack of role models and gender bias in the workplace According to the European Union currently in 2016 there were eight million people that were employed in the ICT sectors like in general Based on the current trend we can assume that by 2020 there are going to be 10 million females at 10 million people working in the IT field There will be places basically for for different specialists and the question is how many of these places will be occupied by women So in order to close a gender gap and the talent gap in technology, we need a diversity of thought Companies communities organization should allow diversity of thought to serve as the competitive advantage to stimulate new growth attract new talent and generate new market opportunities To begin with Everything starts in the childhood From early ages boys and girls are told what they supposed to like and who are they supposed to be? For example They are primed by the toys they are given usually when you give a toy you give to a girl to a girl You give a ribbon or a doll that looks nice Picking color and so on so forth and for boys you give cars and trucks and in that way you stimulate there to go in one On another sphere the good news that kids think oh I Play game. I like it. I enjoy they don't think oh, I'm coding Programming because I'm a girl because I'm a boy They just have fun coding to support our arguments. We have conducted an online survey It's ongoing, but we have more than 100 results now So we want to show our some of our results with you the one of the biggest question of our query was What is the most challenging part of being a woman in tech? and answers were Not taken seriously people assume that you're not technically technical or that you're rather a secretary than a coder a Bit of an outsider the only girls in the boys club lack of female co-workers Imposter syndrome in general can be sending man The most interesting was that women feel like they are talked Over by man. They can hardly get a word. That was one of the things that actually was astonishing and It's important not just to state the facts but to outline what we can do to change this and Role models are the case. There is a saying you cannot be what you cannot see But we would rather rephrase and say that you can't be what you can't see a Shortage of female role models is one of the major barriers and there is also lack of understanding How technology can enable women to change the world in fact some of the females aren't Considering technology queries because it's no one is putting a forwarded to them as an option They also think that they won't make a good fit. For example Usually when men apply for position open position They when they apply when they meet 60% of the requirements while women Usually in most cases when they meet 100% of the requirements And in order to support our arguments with role models So they have done one interesting thing So we interviewed role models in the tech field and Drupal and we conducted a video survey And we want now to present our results. This is going to be presented for the first time and was Especially prepared for the Drupal con. I hope you will like it To continue If you look at coding at the skills that affects every industry in some shape or another and coders are created huge Breakthroughs new inventions services capabilities product solution system and a lot more So having the ability to code or even just understanding how the things work can give you a seat at a table And it allows you to be part of the conversation so you can make part of the future Oh my god Yeah Coding is a skill is not enough. We can use it for some purposes of course girls need the sense of community They need to sometimes they need to see role models because they need To see that there are people there are women out there who have succeeded What else do they need more mentors like minded girls and here coding girls come to help We give them support and empower them to get started in coding and to solve world's problem We coding girls believe that together we can empower Educate and engage girls as a together we can build the tech community. Everyone wants to be part of Okay Since you couldn't see the video maybe I can present my story. So here I am with a really big picture of me but Who I am Well I'm a drobo developer from Bulgaria. How all started for me Well, I was about four years old when I enjoyed going to my parents offices and playing on that amazing machines They now seem pretty ancient, but they were great back then. I spend a lot of time playing games I am just making some word files and whatever and Then in school, of course, I loved science subjects. I Studied maths till high school and then I I showed interest in writing poems short stories and that kind of stuff. So I continued studying in a communion humanitarian high school and After that I graduated. I took a BM by tour of art degree in English language and literature But I have always known that I want to work in the technology field Even before I graduate. I decided that I will continue with some master of science degree and Here's how I ended up in software engineering I Needed to start practicing after that and back in 2012. There weren't many companies in Bulgaria Who would take young graduates without experience? then I Was searching for some options and I found that amazing European Union program for young people till the age of 29 and Then I needed somewhere to start work, of course so I asked a friend of mine if he will agree if he would agree to teach me and Thankfully and fortunately he did I Started working in his small company and he taught me the basics of PHP HTML CSS JavaScript then I worked on some small projects start to you started using WordPress, but yeah, it wasn't enough I needed something more. I wanted to work in bigger companies or more complex projects and Then some friend of mine mentioned about Drupal. Yeah, what's that? I went to the Drupal dot org and the first thing I saw was some teams They didn't weren't as good as those of WordPress. I didn't like it first But I decided to give it a chance so I went to the docs again and when I write about Content types and nodes and all they we can do with them. Oh, it was fascinating. I loved it at once and I decided that I'll make I may use Drupal, but for what I need some real project work on I can't just watch some videos or read docs. It's boring What do I need? I want something that I can use later That's how I told to myself. Well, why not create a portfolio website and use it to apply for a job? Yeah Well, that's how I started reading docs watching videos working at the same time and here is the result Thought of a dot EU came to world. I Did apply for a job. You know what happened? I got a call on the very next day. It was amazing I didn't know Drupal developers. I was so charged back then but then I started working he Rather be company with offices around the world and there I met one of the best guys ever he was a great mentor and he Somehow well, he's the reason that I'm here today speaking and working with Drupal at all Yes, we talked about role models before I I don't really need a role models And I didn't met a lot of problems because my parents were very supportive And I actually don't care what other people think if I did I wouldn't be able to work with Drupal You know how many haters they are out there? Sure but Here I am using Drupal and ready to teach it to other people It wasn't so smooth You know, this is one of the famous and my favorite pictures of Drupal learning curve Yeah Well, I thought oh, I must be very stupid. It's so hard. What's wrong with me? And then I read I read that amazing article where I saw whoa people out there. They are feeling the same It was pretty normal. Okay. I won't give up. I'm not that kind of person. I'll just continue And today I joined not today But today here I am as a community leader because when Anna mentioned About her ideas and when she established coding girls organization I thought hey, I can't do the same that other people did for me And I can't help I can be a mentor to other people. Why not little girls? They need to see as a part. They want to See that it's possible if they like it if they show interest why not try because opportunity is everything and these are some of the children from our courses that we conducted and Of course, I they're a dh of seven to nine and We use scratch for starting for their first steps in programming. It was amazing they could do anything everything I show them and We create the game we created Interactive animations and other things it was amazing. I'm sure you can see it on their faces So one of the things that Maria have mentioned we do organize courses we do organize workshops, but I want to tell you What do we actually do except for that and what do we want to do? So one of the things that I want to tell is coding girls clubs and what is this for? So boys and girls do usually equally good and mass elementary and middle schools, but at the age of 11 and 12 the girls start to lose their interest in science and maths because of the peer's pressure Social media influence and this has to be a thing like teenager girls also don't want to be seen as nerdy They want to be seen as cute girls. They want to be seen as smart girls, but not smarter than guys and That's one of the reason that they need this role model so they can see okay. She's cool I want to be like her and I can be like her and That's one of the things to foster the interest another thing is of course to organize the club where each and every girl will feel comfortable expressing the interest and being part of the community that will support and Could the coding girls clubs are in fact easy to organize because you need you need a location You need internet and laptops and you need a facilitator Who just leads the program and in fact if this person could be a volunteer who is in technology? And who is a teacher for example in the school where the club can be organized except for the school? It can be organized in the library for example community centers and any other place it supports sports education and inclusion Another thing is coding girls hackathon. It's I don't want to today's event where participants will be grouped into teams and Ideally it should involve the mix of talents developers and designers and team works on a project and Yeah, we are planning to have hackathons for a cause so if you can do something cool together and have a reason to do that The summer immersion program is for girls of 10 to 11th grade usually one to two months program each week and Which of the progress comes covers project related to computer science such as storytelling web design apps? And we are planning also to invite females as guest speakers and help connect girls with the Miss engineers and entrepreneurs and the final step the result of the summer immersion will be the the product That but like base in the project will be presented to others so Our mission is to empower girls to begin to start it in coding in order to become and in order to become In order to become Leaders innovators and entrepreneurs and be able to change the world with the help of code Somebody says that we are dreamers But we are not the only ones And here comes our coding girls meetups and guys also come to these meetups And they usually organize for the members and people who are interested in becoming our members and we discuss our achievements our Ideas and our next steps so everyone can join who has the interest and This is one of our recent meetups that was organized in soft tuning in Sofia In fact, we do believe that each city has a lot of young and motivated people So you can unlock the potential of your city and here we are in Vienna So why not start a coding girls community here? I'm sure there are some of you here who could really help a younger to Become future innovators entrepreneurs and leaders and make a positive change with the help of code Of course all the things that we have achieved So far became possible with the help of our volunteers and their real ears and I do really want to send them for everything that they have done and There is one Latin Proverbs that says he who teaches learns I would paraphrase and say she who teachers learns as well So one of the benefits of becoming a mentor is reverse mentoring learning from those who are less experienced so It helps you to understand some things more and even the ask questions it helps you to go deeper and of course It opens opportunities and doors for them and you can position also yourself as a specialist and Benefit from the self of fulfillment and personal growth Sometimes parents might not see the potential of their daughters and they rather imagine the boys to be in technologies and girls so This is this is one more time increases the potential of organizing communities and having clubs where Women who are in technology and men can become also mentors when technology could support the young generation to help them to pursue the career in tech and Recoding girls want to do that and already doing of that Since we know that the interest of girls in technology falls dramatically Down when they become teenagers. We focused on preparing some courses and the curriculum for teenage girls And why not use Drupal? It's as a site building of course as a starter and then if they like it They can create some yeah, you know project Maybe a blog about something that is interest is interesting for them like why not fashion dancing whatever or maybe some school projects And they can do this They can try and see what it is to create a site if they like it They can they can continue and then choose rather front-end or back-end developer They may continue working with Drupal which we really hope or they can choose another field and This is how actually This can help to grow the Drupal community because you all can agree that we need more people Our programs our courses our workshops summer immersion hackathon. They are free of charge That's why we need the support of those who believe into the positive change with the help of code and We are looking for partners What to partner with us? What is in it for partners? In fact, that's probably one of the things that partners are wondering and maybe some of you are Representing some companies not just being a developer or maybe building developer and having your own company so one of the thing is to invest in the future because there is not just the gender gap there is a talent gap and in order to invest in future in order to inspire educate and creep girls with the With the computer skills to pursue the 21st century opportunities and you can also become an active educator of gender equality and position yourself as a supporter of diversity of thought and Of course as every organization you want to have our big days coding girls conference day of sharing networking and getting inspired and We dream big though. We start small. We are currently started in Bulgaria Started already in Bulgaria and but our vision is to empower girls all over the Europe to get started and pursue their career and tech Because we think education is the most important thing and we can do our best and we should do it We must do it and on Monday We took part part in the community summit where we worked in teams with some of you here today And we chose one of the chosen topics was our proposal about the Drupal curriculum for teenage girls Which was kind of transformed for all children for our target different target groups And I think that it was amazing opportunity to see to share our ideas our plans to talk to people from other countries from other background and actually do something together one of the most asked questions can boys join the organization come to meetups and Courses for example to train and we invite men we in because in fact The world is not black and white and we cannot just grow girls and okay go Because when they enter the tech field of course the guy is there and that's why we need to Make to raise the awareness of both men and women in order to create a support in a safe environment once we help girls to get started and one of the Major benefits of having both females and males in technologies cross-mentary for example men are mentoring girls and women are mentoring boys. That could be one of the ways and Yeah, to sum her up change is possible change is possible with code and with your help Sometimes we want to change some things, but why to wait? Why not do it today? Why not start doing that and we'd really love to have you as part of coding girls and you can support us being mentor of speaker a starter club and the smaller things that you can do is to spread the word about our organization in order to Get more people know about that so that we can help them to pursue their career in technology The dream of a young girl to become an engineer the dream of a young girl to be a businesswoman The dream of a young girl to become an entrepreneur is a dream of a young girl to change the world It is possible. It is reachable and we believe that the great change is possible with the help of code We believe that giving a chance to girls and women and Putting it forward as an option in order to for them to become innovators Leaders entrepreneurs will make the world a better place for all of us and the last but not the least They were very Fascinating by the sessions and keynotes that we got inspired and came up with some rhymes So let's turn the challenge into results and make a change It doesn't have to be perfect. It's okay to be a bit strange and Drupal gets more inclusive and the worst Let's make it real not just rehearse So everyone feels important and of course Give us a reason why not Thank you Now it's the time for your quick questions, please Hi, thanks for the presentation was very interested I Don't have a clear idea about the mentors as a man I need to think about maybe today in the women in Drupal. We can talk about longer But I think that is very great idea. What? You are doing it. It has a lot of value I would like to know then the meetings with the adults is to talk about what you are gonna do with the girls or is about women in general Well, we have different target groups The first target group is for young children ADH of 7 to 11 But we use crutch there because we want to make it fun to raise their interest and make them think start think logically About teenage Teenagers this is the second target group. Yes, we chose Drupal. It's perfect because it's easy to install You can start Optimizing using as a site builder and then if you show some interest you can continue in technology well about we are thinking yes about Actually, we have a third target group That's the instructors because in order to start making courses We need some somebody to teach these young people these girls So we are planning on making a curriculum for and train instructors and We are preparing at the moment some materials because we think that it will be a self guided a self-training But guided training guided by us and we want Whether these will be men or women or even high school seniors or University students they can come and Join our training then they will receive these certificates and we'll check that they have the skills needed so they can go back to their schools to their university to their community center and Start training children teenagers and why not adults as well But at the moment our focus is on young children and teenagers as for the adults is about instructors I'm not afraid that if it's with also guys or children or men maybe the focus of The beginning at why you are doing this is missing because The feeling that I get it is like the gender gap And if we don't focus that part in girls in women then we are making something general Okay, yes, we have two parts that we focus on if it's going to be a man the lecture that it's going to be a man He will teach young girls only girls If we make courses for our children boys and girls The trainers the instructors will be ladies only so you see we focus on ladies training as students and as instructors It's less about focusing on the gender gap It's more than focusing on the educational aspect of it But in order to to yeah, but I mean is in girl coding girls And then the topic is gender and then at least my feeling that the first idea I mean the presentation all the topic is about gender. That's why my question Do you have some connection with another? organization of women coding Even more more service no Organizations around the world if you have some connection. Yeah, yeah We have if you have some ideas we can talk afterwards and yeah Maybe you'd like to introduce us or we could get into I know some of them. We can treat it right. Yeah, thanks Thanks a lot. Thank you more thing. Yes We are coding girls on one hand because we help girls to start coding but on the other hand The members of coding girls are women. That's why we are coding girls. We are the coding girls helping others Thank you Hi, thank you for the talk I have two questions First can you tell us where to find the movie that we were not allowed to see the film the movie is great Sorry, yes, of course we wanted to present it especially for the Drupal economy will post it afterwards the sound is not working That's unfortunately because it is awesome We will post it on our page and maybe together with a session So on our website and I don't know if Twitter allows that we can provide the link for example there and to share it with My second question was I I run local meet-ups for Drupal developers and I've found it really really hard to to get girls to come to these meet-ups You have any general suggestions and tips how What I can do to improve this I'm doing something wrong. I know I don't know if we are scary or we too geeky Are we hard to find? Maybe we communicate? Just among ourselves and likewise people and that's not where Woman are I don't know Oh Well, yes, it's all about breaking these barriers that exist and why we started making courses Especially designed for girls not for all children. We often get that question. Well Parents that they are the biggest factor when they when parents see a course for programming They might bring their daughters, but most probably they will not But when they see that it is especially designed for girls, they They tell themselves. Well, why not? Let's get her there. Let's try and that's how we got all these girls Because yeah, okay, but my question was Older girls Well, it all starts in the early age and when we used to these stereotypes, it's too late now Yeah, so you want to invite ladies that are already in Drupal do you understand, right? Yes, that's my question. Did you have any ladies that came to your meetup? One one. How did you feel about that? I? Should never came back Sorry, what was your project? Were you making some project developing some project? I'm sorry At your meetup what was about it? Is it just about showing what Drupal is or starting developing some project? No Well, it's general different topics So it might be nerdy back-end stuff or it could be just showing off what's going on in Drupal core And so the the one one time when a female showed up It was about showing off the media initiative in Drupal core and the current state where it was but Yeah, well, maybe we can tell We are making two days course now at Plovdiv during the European Code Week and We will present Drupal there and we have designed these weekend is especially for girls Maybe you should do something like that or a special workshop or a meetup a special design for girls So they feel that they can mix there Yeah, where are you based what country? Norway nor and how many ladies in technology are there? Have no idea Do you organize camps or like other events that are bigger than meetups? I don't know I'm So this is we've been running these meetups for only half a year. So So we are I'm kind of Reaching out I've been sending email to to girls or women that I know work in the tech industry and kind of Specifically inviting them please come and join us and see what it's all about and try to Be inclusive and maybe spread the word But so far I haven't been really successful. So I think we can help you. Sorry We can we can help you really I think we can find this women Okay, I think they're there. So we would like to help you really can talk afterwards. Thanks for sharing Hello, hey there. Thank you for this great presentation. I really appreciate it this whole inch initiative I want also to say here in Vienna. We have also some coding Club or like there's the rails girls for rails coding, but it's nothing regular So it was like one time in some event for coding other for more like women like you older one but I think really great great thing if someone set it up in Vienna for really girl girls and small and like small girls and younger one and If you like can I can give you contact that of the rails girls and python girls people Maybe they're like interested to make some regular event. Yes. Thanks a lot. We'd love that Connect with you. Yeah, thanks Hi, I guess wanted in general to invite everyone to go today that are interested in this topic to go today to women Drupal days and talk about them the topic because last year I was there and was another meeting I mean we didn't spoke about women in Drupal that is the main topic in this session or wherever Yes, we are true to come this idea. Thank you Thanks, everyone And one more thing would you appreciate your feedback? It's actually our first time at Drupal cone and it would love if you take one minute or two and to leave us your feedback What do you think? Maybe you maybe you should watch the video first as well Thanks. Thanks one more time and wish you a successful and productive day