The finalists of the Women in Open Source Awards 2019 were known

Red Hat is delivering for the fifth time Women in Open Source Awards.

Diversity is a topic of discussion in various fields, both on Wall Street and in Hollywood. The open source world is no exception. How many outstanding women can you name?

The goal is to honor women who make important contributions to open source projects and communities, or to those that make a innovative use of their methodologies.

There are two categories that are awarded. One rewards academic contributions and the other community contributions, although there are none for the business sector.

The winners will be announced in May. These are the nominees:

Women in Open Source Awards to participating women in communities.

It rewards women who work and also volunteers in open source projects.

Hong Phuc Dang

With a history of 11 years in the world of open source, she is the founder of FOSSASIA as well as working on specific projects.

FOSSASIA is a community that seeks to improve people's lives by exchanging technologies and knowledge.

As for other projects, he participates in SUS.AI, Pocket Science Lab and Eventyay.

SUS.AI is a framework for creating voice assistants while Pocket Science Lab is a hardware and software lab. Eventyay, meanwhile, is a solution for organizing events.

Gabriela Queiroz

Gabriela was the prwas the first person from Latin America to become an ordinary member of the R Foundation (R is the programming language for statistical uses).

In accordance with his vision that R is a tool to teach and empower others, he decided found R-Ladies as well as el R Consortium Community Diversity & Inclusion Working Group.

Limor Fried

She is the founder and chief engineer of Adafruit Industries.

Adafruit Industries is an open source hardware company, its objective is the diffusion in addition to the online marketing of this type of hardware.

Nithya ruff

Is the Comcast Open Source Implementation Manager, the communications giant. He has founded as well as advised founders of various open source programs.

He has also contributed to initiatives to foster diversity at open source summits in North America.

pia mancini

She is the co-founder and CEO of the Open Collective as well as the creator of Democracy-OS and DemocracyEarth.

OpenCollective helps open source community projects raise funds transparently.

Democracy-OS is a platform for civic participation, while DemocracyEarth is a political party built around the principles of open code.

Women in Open Source Awards to academic women.

Women who are full-time students currently enrolled in a college or university are awarded.

This year's finalists are:

Sayantika banik

He is a student at Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, where he is pursuing a Bachelor's degree while collaborating for 3 years on open source projects.

She has worked at the Google Developer Group, Women Techmakers, and the Terrain Smart Safety System (TSSS).

Banik received a student scholarship at Grace Hopper Celebration India in 2018 also collaborating in the DevFest 2018 Bangalore.

Kate compton

He is preparing a Ph.D. at the University of California at Santa Cruz while writing tutorials on Artificial Intelligence.

She is the creator of Tracery, an open source language as well as a set of libraries for the same.

Saloni garg

She is pursuing a bachelor's degree in computer science while actively participating in several diversity initiatives, including Women Techmakers Group, 1 Million Women to Tech, Anita Borg, and Women-Who-Code.

She was selected as a Mozilla Open Leader in 2018, and contributes regularly to Wikimedia, GNOME, and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF),

Mallory gaspard

She is disabled and is studying for a degree in physics and mathematics. It is part of the Rensselaer Center for Open Source (RCOS) where developed the Automatic Door Control Project and a low-cost Bluetooth device based on Raspberry Pi qIt can be adapted to existing automatic door opening equipment.

Alina matyukhina

She is a PhD candidate as well as a Cybersecurity Researcher at the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity.

Is working to develop a way to protect the identity of open source software developers.

Is the creator of an AI-based technique is able to hide and anonymize the coding style from open source developers.

Choice of winners

The vote to choose the winners was public and was done via the web until February 25. It is important to note that several of the nominees are linked to hardware and software development projects and not only to promote diversity.