Creative Approaches To Diversity
Talkat Open Source Leadership Summit 2017 · on Thursday, 2017-02-16· at 10:00· Grand Sierra Ballroom·
summary
Argues that diversity is a practical survival strategy with measurable effects: a welcome bot in Rust increases merge likelihood by almost 12% and paid internships and outreach lower barriers; removing anonymity often increases toxicity against women and minorities; a global open challenge draws 200 proposals from 27 countries and surfaces local solutions; contributions remain low with about 11% women active in open source, and deliberate community design plus shared codes of conduct drive retention and better outcomes.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:30Background
- 3:38Meritocracy
- 5:01Open Source Diversity
- 6:00Underrepresented minorities
- 6:24Diversity matters
- 7:12Innovation
- 10:42What we have learned
- 10:59Learning from others
- 12:33Designing intentionally
- 14:01Be creative
- 17:47Equal rating innovation challenge
- 20:59Summary
