Source: thenewstack.io
Strategies to Beat Affinity Bias for More Open Source Diversity and InclusiCategory: Business, Data, github
Loads of open source software (OSS) communities sport rainbow-fied logos for pride, tag #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo, and do a lot of other performative posturings. Women in open source play the canary in the coal mine, alerting to bigger diversity problems endemic to the ecosystem.
Abubakar reminds us that “All of these issues stand in contrast to what open source contributors want and what the open source community is meant to represent.”
This may seem small, but, according to a survey of open source software developers that Tidelift and The New Stack jointly ran in 2019, on average, 40% of their time contributing to open source was part of their job.
When you say a community is an open source community, it means that almost everything that you’re doing in the community should be available to the public,” including your code and docs.
Abubakar reminds us that “All of these issues stand in contrast to what open source contributors want and what the open source community is meant to represent.”
This may seem small, but, according to a survey of open source software developers that Tidelift and The New Stack jointly ran in 2019, on average, 40% of their time contributing to open source was part of their job.
When you say a community is an open source community, it means that almost everything that you’re doing in the community should be available to the public,” including your code and docs.
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