
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.
"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, 2014
#craftconf This, really, so much: pic.twitter.com/DQeF4K5XfB
— BoÐil Stokke (@bodil) April 25, 2014
These 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