Main focus: Diversity and Inclusion
Twitter handle: @jonatoni
Website/blog: https://jona.azizaj.com/
Languages: English, Albanian
City: Tiranë
Country: Albania
Topics: women in tech, internet of things, women and technology, women in open source, diversity in technology, git, diversity and inclusivity in tech, diversity and inclusion, outreach
Jona is an open source enthusiast from Albania. Being part of Open Labs, the first hackerspace that promotes free software in Tirana, she started to contribute to open source. Since then Jona has been part of different communities including Fedora, LibreOffice, Nextcloud etc. She has co-founded Open Source Diversity to bring more diversity & inclusion in free & open source software communities. Last year she was part of Rails Girls Summer of Code working on Nextcloud and later on, she joined Collabora. She loves mentoring people to start contributing in open source and helping communities to be inclusive and diverse.
Examples of previous talks / appearances:
The Fedora Project has participated in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) as a mentoring organization for over a decade now and has been participated in Outreachy since its' early rounds. This session was an opportunity to showcase projects of current and former GSoC and Outreachy interns in Fedora to the community.
This talk is in: Englishhttps://opensourcediversity.org/
This talk is in: EnglishRails Girls Summer of Code, an award winning scholarship program that aims at fostering diversity in Open Source, and the reasons why they chose to do it with Nextcloud.
This talk is in: EnglishThe Gender Gap is one of the most talked topic since forever, and still a Gap. Where are women in Open Source? Why the gap is so big? Women participation in open technology and culture is very important so we should all pay more attention. This talk was focused on the large steps we can take to reduce this gap. Also we shared out experience at our hackerspace in Tirana, Albania since we have lots of women there.
This talk is in: EnglishDuring Flock to Fedora, the biggest conference dedicated to Fedora contributors.
This talk is in: English