Craft Conf - Open Source isn't for everyone (but it could be)

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1. @ashedryden open source isn’t for everyone (but it could be)
2. @ashedryden ! ! real life mermaid @ashedryden At the intersection of tech and culture, ending programmer apocrypha. ! Patron Saint of Catmoms.
3. @ashedryden
4. @ashedryden people: the hardest problem in computer science
5. @ashedryden https://twitter.com/mathiasx/status/288120758968934400
6. @ashedryden why?
7. @ashedryden participation
8. @ashedryden evolution
9. @ashedryden specialization
10. @ashedryden oss now
11. @ashedryden homogenous
12. @ashedryden 1.5%
    of contributors
    are women
13. @ashedryden ???%
    of contributors
    are people of color, LGBTQ, etc
14. @ashedryden why so low?
15. @ashedryden time
16. @ashedryden pay inequality
17. @ashedryden few compensated for OSS
18. @ashedryden poor treatment
19. @ashedryden “Mostly I fear the excessive spotlight for being a sole female programmer on a publicly available project. In light of how women are treated on the internet, this fear does not seem unreasonable.”
20. @ashedryden what can i do?
21. @ashedryden make it obvious
22. @ashedryden bit.ly/mm-contrib
23. @ashedryden be inclusive
24. @ashedryden https://twitter.com/kytrinyx/status/439514571808575488
25. @ashedryden make it easy
26. @ashedryden https://twitter.com/saalon/status/429233708596731904
27. @ashedryden be vulnerable
28. @ashedryden https://twitter.com/helenhousandi/status/426846717464817665
29. @ashedryden be patient
30. @ashedryden “before I respond to an issue, I check their github profile to see their level of understanding.”
31. @ashedryden be helpful
32. @ashedryden “even nice, smart people do unhelpful things.” @li3n3
33. @ashedryden https://twitter.com/chmouel/status/431178123649249280
34. @ashedryden make it safe
35. @ashedryden pay for it
36. @ashedryden support! Rails Girls Summer of Code railsgirlssummerofcode.org ! Google Summer of Code google-melange.com ! Gnome’s Outreach Program wiki.gnome.org/ OutreachProgramForWomen
37. @ashedryden volunteer
38. @ashedryden resources The Ethics of Unpaid Labor + OSS bit.ly/oss-ethics ! Middleman contributor.md bit.ly/mm-contrib ! Bundler Code of Conduct bundler.io/conduct.html ! Contributor Covenant github.com/Bantik/contributor_covenant
39. @ashedryden thanks!
    @ashedryden