Promoting Diversity by Featuring the Positive Power of Open Source Projects

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Claim: open source messaging attracts underrepresented students because they value collaboration, community and social impact; survey data from Oct 2019–Feb 2020 across Western New England University and Nassau Community College yields 288 usable surveys showing women significantly prefer topics with social impact (human trafficking tops their list). Evidence cites NSF-funded projects and industry partners (Red Hat Google Mozilla Linux Foundation Wikimedia). Concrete tools and resources discussed include GitHub, teachingopensource.org and fosterserved.org, plus classroom tactics for exposing students to community-based projects.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:24Current Status
3. 2:26NCWIT By The Numbers - April 2020
4. 3:17The Dark Side of Computing
5. 4:16The Dark Side of Open Source
6. 5:39Attempt at A Solution
7. 8:45Telling the positive Story of Open Source
8. 13:47HFOSS Education Resources
9. 14:02Questions???

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