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.
@ashedryden, great talk and thanks for challenging us to get more involved in open source! #bigruby
— Paul Gower (@paulmgower) February 20, 2014Fan-squeeing a bit in the audience at @bigrubyconf over @ashedryden whose work I am well, a huge fan of.
— Bonnie Mattson (@kitsunetsuki) February 20, 2014Talk8 summary: Make your open source projects contributor-friendly #bigrubyconf
— Gilbert (@mindeavor) February 20, 2014It was great meeting you today, @ashedryden; I was really impressed how much of a outside-in thinker you were. #bigrubyconf
— Kevin Lozandier (@KevinLozandier) February 21, 2014
Ashe Dryden is a programmer, diversity advocate and consultant, prolific writer,