Building inclusive Open Source communities
summary
Concrete stats and fixes: the GitHub survey shows 95% men 3% women 1% non‑binary, real harms like Flickr and Google Photos mis‑tagging and a soap dispenser failing on dark skin, and projects that actually exist—Rails Girls Summer of Code and Travis Foundation—used practical fixes: clear READMEs, contributing guides with newcomer labels, code‑of‑conducts enforced, and a Slack tweak that replaces “guys” with “team.” Expect specific examples, step‑by‑step tooling choices, and lessons about what worked and what failed.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 6:11Open Source is great, but...
- 6:42Open Source is white, male, cisgendered
- 9:04In the role-playing game known as The Real World, 'Straight White Male is the lowest difficulty setting there is.
- 9:42Unpacking the invisible knapsack
- 25:54Use technology to your advantage
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