All surveys and research on open source contributors show that the percentage of women is far lower than men. In the most recent survey of the Linux Foundation, less than 7% of respondents were women, similarly in the yet unpublished study on the impact of open source for the European Commission; women represent around 5% of contributors to the Apache Software Foundation, 9% of the Linux kernel and 10% of OpenStack contributors; only around 9% of Github users. In a 2006 research report, it was found that only 1,5% of OSS contributors were women, compared to 28% in proprietary software.
Although it feels difficult for three white old western men to talk about this without just being a sad example of this exact thing. Needs a good guest or two.
bagder
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1 year ago
This Eurpoean commission report
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Although it feels difficult for three white old western men to talk about this without just being a sad example of this exact thing. Needs a good guest or two.