Standing Out in the Crowd
summary
Open source shows very low female participation — 1.5% in FLOSS polls (2006), 5% in Perl, ~10% in Drupal — yet two projects prove different approaches work: Archive of Our Own is ~60,000 lines of Ruby on Rails and JavaScript with 20+ coders, majority women; Dreamwidth is a LiveJournal fork ~210,000 lines (Perl/JS), ~40 coders and ~75% female. Both recruit nonprogrammers, teach newcomers, use a diversity statement/code of conduct, beginner-friendly tasks and hosted dev environments, and see measurable inclusion.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 3:12An Archive Of Our Own
- 8:59Recruit diversity.
- 9:54Tools. (tools are easy)
- 11:18Value all contributions.
- 11:43Call people on their crap.
- 12:11Pay attention.
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