This is a Privilege checklist for men in Open Source. The leader of any open source project I contribute to is probably of my gender. The vast majority of my co-contributors are of my gender. If I...
Why Open-Source Needs More Feminism | Built In
In open source, as in life, hidden labor goes unrewarded.
A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design
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How Python is building a welcoming community for women
Learn how the Python community is addressing open source’s gender parity problem by recruiting women into core roles and building opportunity for women as we celebrate International Women’s Month:
Women considered better coders – but only if they hide their gender
Researchers find software repository GitHub approved code written by women at a higher rate than code written by men, but only if the gender was not disclosed
Sharing Knowledge Openly: Author Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Feminist Science
Open science is an increasingly important movement in contemporary social science. Many funders have begun to mandate open practices, newer journals like Socius are open access, and preprint servers have increased readership of paywalled articles. Feminist scholars have written about the values and pitfalls of open research. In this paper, we put those ideas in conversation with each other and empirical data on open-access publishing to develop a feminist framework for thinking about feminist knowledge, data, publishing, and audience. Using a survey of 19,462 social scientists, linked with their entire Web of Science publication history from 2000 to 2023 and all papers posted to SocArXiv, we replicate past work showing that articles by women are less likely to be some types of open access. We extend these findings to scholars of color and feminist scholarship, while also demonstrating a few surprising null results for all three groups.
Non-Coding Contributors in Open Source
The tradition of privileging only technical skills triggers imbalance and inequality.
Katerina Marchán (@zkat@toot.cat)
Open source maintainers of major projects (hi) are not ready to accept and talk about how the cultural insistence on permissive licensing is just straight up labor exploitation taking advantage of our addiction to popularity (also hi). We’re doing this to ourselves too, you know.
I Don’t Want to Know What “Open Source” Means
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all on GitHub.
Open Source and Free Software Considered Harmful — marisa's "blog"
(It's best to read this blog post after reading Steve Klabnik's The culture war at the heart of open source and What comes after “open so...
Is Your Open Source Code Leading to Human Rights Violations? | Built In
The Ethical Source movement is questioning the central assumptions of open source culture.
Roles in open source projects
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Diversity, equity and inclusion
I'm in favour of diversity, equity and inclusion in open source communities, and here's why I think it matters.
Yes: Affirmative Consent as a Theoretical Framework for Understanding and Imagining Social Platforms | Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Open Source Saturation
In Supporting Open Source Software I discussed the critical need for better support for contributors to open source projects. Now, Quo Vadi...
