Diversity in Open Source, an Asian Perspective
summary
Asia accounts for 60% of world population yet open source contribution concentrates in India and China and still lags in leadership roles; the 2021 GitHub Octoverse shows 7.5 million GitHub users in China while local platform Gitee reports 8 million users, highlighting platform split. Cited barriers are time zone exclusion, English fluency for real‑time discussion, company policies that forbid work‑hour contributions, cultural gender norms, and slow onboarding to open governance; suggested fixes include localization glossaries, auto‑captioning and regional community managers.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Agenda
- 3:19Diversity in Open Source
- 7:15Asia
- 7:33Geographical and Social Factors
- 8:28Time
- 10:45Language
- 15:20Company Culture
- 17:34Gender Bias
- 19:52Social Environment Culture
- 21:14Other Social Factors
- 24:01Open Mindset
- 25:43Questions
- 26:59Language Barrier
- 28:17Technical Questions
- 30:00Cultural Barriers
- 31:55Spreading Open Source
- 33:21Localization Dictionary
- 34:39Chinese Contributions
- 36:07Adapting your approach
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