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@ashedryden open source isn’t for everyone (but it could be)

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@ashedryden ! ! real life mermaid @ashedryden At the intersection of tech and culture, ending programmer apocrypha. ! Patron Saint of Catmoms.

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@ashedryden

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@ashedryden people: the hardest problem in computer science

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@ashedryden https://twitter.com/mathiasx/status/288120758968934400

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@ashedryden why?

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@ashedryden participation

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@ashedryden evolution

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@ashedryden specialization

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@ashedryden oss now

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@ashedryden homogenous

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@ashedryden 1.5% of contributors are women

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@ashedryden ???% of contributors are people of color, LGBTQ, etc

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@ashedryden why so low?

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@ashedryden time

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@ashedryden pay inequality

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@ashedryden few compensated for OSS

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@ashedryden poor treatment

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@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.”

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@ashedryden what can i do?

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@ashedryden make it obvious

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@ashedryden bit.ly/mm-contrib

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@ashedryden be inclusive

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@ashedryden https://twitter.com/kytrinyx/status/439514571808575488

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@ashedryden make it easy

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@ashedryden https://twitter.com/saalon/status/429233708596731904

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@ashedryden be vulnerable

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@ashedryden https://twitter.com/helenhousandi/status/426846717464817665

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@ashedryden be patient

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@ashedryden “before I respond to an issue, I check their github profile to see their level of understanding.”

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@ashedryden be helpful

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@ashedryden “even nice, smart people do unhelpful things.” @li3n3

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@ashedryden https://twitter.com/chmouel/status/431178123649249280

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@ashedryden make it safe

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@ashedryden pay for it

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@ashedryden support! Rails Girls Summer of Code railsgirlssummerofcode.org ! Google Summer of Code google-melange.com ! Gnome’s Outreach Program wiki.gnome.org/ OutreachProgramForWomen

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@ashedryden volunteer

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@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

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@ashedryden thanks! @ashedryden