Diversity in OpenSource … show me the data!
summary
Surveying GitHub and Stack Overflow data and name‑inference tools, the talk presents concrete gaps: 95% male responses on one GitHub sample, Linux Foundation counts like 9.9% women in kernel contributions but only 6.8% of patches from women, and a Red Hat kernel team at 3% female. Corporations report ~20–23% women in technical roles and UX hires grew from 18 to 106. Recommended fixes: explicit on‑ramps, labeled beginner issues, codes of conduct, mentoring and calling out bad behavior.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 7:45Gender Differences
- 9:31What if everyone was uniform and homogeneous
- 11:13Complimentary skills are an asset
- 14:15Professional Computer Programmers
- 14:53Corporations are changing
- 16:52Years of Experience by Gender
- 21:27Can you spot the Genius?
- 26:47Be more inviting
- 32:27The future will be different
- 53:21Open Source communities remain predominantly male
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