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.
#craftconf mermaid bonus in Room 1 with @ashedryden talking open source
— Emer Kirrane (@Exxx) April 25, 2014"Open Source is *the* reason why I've become and remained a programmer." - @ashedryden #CraftConf
— Igor Gali263 (@hirojin) April 25, 2014"People: the hardest problem in computer science." By @ashedryden #craftconf
— Rafael DeVill (@devillsroom) April 25, 2014Listening to @ashedryden to learn to be open for open source community- be inclusive, making it easy, be patient... pic.twitter.com/td1ZKM05a1
— Tomomi ✿ Imura (@girlie_mac) April 25, 2014#craftconf This, really, so much: pic.twitter.com/DQeF4K5XfB
— BoÐil Stokke (@bodil) April 25, 2014These slides by @ashedryden on making OSS projects more inclusive are great: http://t.co/2vjsHSYvr8 I will be taking these to heart.
— Eiríkr Åsheim (@d6) April 25, 2014
Ashe Dryden is a programmer, diversity advocate and consultant, prolific writer,