Squashing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Bugs in Open Source Projects

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Open source DEI problems get framed as DEI bugs with an explicit workflow: discover/triage/resolve applied to concrete artifacts like READMEs and issue trackers using the GenderMag toolkit and constructed personas. The method tests five validated five facets of problem-solving (motivation, self-efficacy, risk, info style, tinkering) against real steps on GitHub. Surveys cited: 2017 GitHub 95% men, Linux Foundation still ~82% men, ~30% report identity hindrance. Research shows fixes help underrepresented contributors and improve usability for everyone.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:38Diversity Equity in Open Source
3. 3:30Linux Foundation Survey
4. 5:20Unconscious Bias
5. 11:07Squashing Diversity Bugs
6. 20:14Conclusion

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