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FOSSchix Colombia is a Community of Colombian Women who promote<br />

Open Source Software and Culture. It was born at the end of 2009 in order<br />

to generate a space to boost the active participation of women in these<br />

areas. It’s the initiative of 4 women linked to opens source software communities<br />

in Calí. That same year, similar promoters of this kind of technology<br />

in Bogotá joined it and an expansion process initiated throughout the<br />

country.<br />

This community is structured in regional poles (Caribe, Andino, Oriente,<br />

Occidente y Eje Cafetero) and its main work areas are Open Source Software<br />

and Open Culture, taking into account transversal topics as Gender,<br />

Feminism and Cyberfeminism. Activities are oriented towards technology<br />

empowerment with Open Source Software and undertaking Open Source<br />

Culture through Technical Workshops, Conferences, Coffees and Meetings.<br />

“Purple Meetings: Women and Technology” are organized to consolidate the<br />

work of the regional centres, whose main goal is to generate spaces for<br />

analysis and discussion about the relationship between women and technology,<br />

common stereotypes and the associated needs that relate them.<br />

Nowadays, we can affirm that FOSSchix – Colombia is the most solid community<br />

of Open Source Software promoting women in Spanish America. In<br />

September 2012, we organized the I National Congress of Women, Opens<br />

Source Technology and Culture that joined for the first time technology<br />

activist women from countries like Spain, Brazil, Colombia, Chile and Venezuela.<br />

For me, FOSSchix is a space of empowerment and social inclusion that has<br />

allowed women in Colombia to get actively involved in the use, promotion<br />

and development of open source technologies, to show up existing problems<br />

in the technology world and to reach women from different points in<br />

the continent.<br />

Translated by Eduardo de Porras Ortiz, Cybervolunteer, Madrid, Spain

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