Open Source Isn't for Everyone (but it could be)

The state of diversity in open source contributions is abysmal. With the number of female OSS contributors at a shockingly low 1.5% and other groups not even documented, we need to ask what we can be doing better as a community. We’ll discuss the barriers that people face contributing to our open source projects and what we can do to increase participation.

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1. @ashedryden open source isn’t for everyone (but it could be)
2. @ashedryden father husband monad @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 oss now
6. @ashedryden 1.5% of contributors are women
7. @ashedryden ???% of contributors are people of color, LGBTQ, etc
8. @ashedryden why so low?
9. @ashedryden time
10. @ashedryden pay inequality
11. @ashedryden few compensated for OSS
12. @ashedryden poor treatment
13. @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.”
14. @ashedryden what can i do?
15. @ashedryden make it obvious
16. @ashedryden bit.ly/mm-contrib
17. @ashedryden make it easy
18. @ashedryden be vulnerable
19. @ashedryden https://twitter.com/helenhousandi/status/426846717464817665
20. @ashedryden be patient
21. @ashedryden “before I respond to an issue, I check their github profile to see their level of understanding.”
22. @ashedryden be helpful
23. @ashedryden “even nice, smart people do unhelpful things.” @li3n3
24. @ashedryden https://twitter.com/chmouel/status/431178123649249280
25. @ashedryden make it safe
26. @ashedryden pay for it
27. @ashedryden volunteer
28. @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
29. @ashedryden thanks! @ashedryden