Open Source Summit North America 2023 - Diversity Empowerment Summit
2023-05-10..2023-05-12
Vancouver, Canada
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who it's for
community managers, open source program office staff, developer relations professionals, diversity equity inclusion leads, engineering managers, project maintainers, talent acquisition specialists
topics
code of conduct training; neurodiversity hiring accommodations; DEIB metrics and OKRs; mentorship programs with stipends; all-women OSPO operations; language-first moderation practices; good first issue and onboarding; accessibility and childcare logistics; conflict de-escalation for maintainers; LLM risks and workforce impact; documentation-focused contribution paths
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Building Better Communities | Lian Li | 47m |
Community work centers on concrete moves: run regular meetups to seed diverse pipelines, recruit underrepresented speakers instead of relying on celebrity… | ||
| Lean in: Software Developer Diversity and Inclusion (SDDI) | John Mertic, Cynthia Coupe | 30m |
SDDI relaunches a Linux Foundation project (started July 2021) that measures industry gaps, tests practices, and builds tools: 2020 survey shows 91% men, 7%… | ||
| Community Diversity and Inclusion as Business Metric (and Not Just a Feel-Good... | Tamao Nakahara | 33m |
Argues that diversity and inclusion become measurable drivers of community growth by tying DEIB work to OKRs and product-led metrics, not just optics… | ||
| “You’re Badass”, One Woman’s Journey to becoming a CEO | Ann Schlemmer | 38m |
Career path details: joined open source in 2008, moved into MySQL roles, joined Percona in 2013 as consulting coordinator and rose through management of global… | ||
| Building Your Leadership Bench – How to Identify, Motivate, and Retain... | Christine Gadsby | 50m |
Year‑long, zero‑budget program groups high‑potential employees across functions for two hours per month to solve executive‑chosen problems; it hits measurable… | ||
| Hidden Differences: How to be Inclusive When you Don't Know | Cynthia Coupe | 47m |
Claims that about 30–40% estimated neurodivergent and that many hide diagnoses (40% in a London tech poll) set the scale; research also cites up to 85%… | ||
| Is ChatGPT (and Other AI) the Enemy of Diversity? | Quiana Berry | 01h 05m |
ChatGPT-style LLMs reach users and capabilities fast — 1 million users in a week, 100 million in two months, and they pass medical and law exams — yet they… | ||
| The First All-Women OSPO (Comcast) | Chan Voong, Anusha Pavuluri | 33m |
Comcast announces a first-ever all-women OSPO and describes a five-person, US-and-India distributed team combining program and project management, software… | ||
| Squashing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Bugs in Open Source Projects... | Anita Sarma, Georg Link | 36m |
Open source projects hide actionable problems framed as DEI bugs and the concrete fix cycle is discover understand resolve using gendermag personas; Linux… | ||
| 5 Approaches to Increasing Your Open Source (Team) Happiness | Stefka Dimitrova | 27m |
Five concrete practices for healthier open source teams: adopt Be Impeccable With Your Word by tightening docs, FAQs and inclusive language; reduce friction by… | ||
| BoF: Empowering the Next Generation of Open Source Developers | Shuah Khan | 45m |
Overview of a Linux Foundation mentorship program that builds learning pathways and runs LF Live webinars and a mentorship platform that has logged 10.7k… | ||
| Tutorial: How to Advocate for Your Communication Needs | Carmen McClelland | 52m |
Covers four concrete channels—email for paper trail, text, chat apps (Slack/Teams) and phone/Zoom—and when to choose each: email for formal requests and… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Elevating Open Source Events to Retain Contributors | Aakansha Priya | 08m |
Events center on a clear purpose and target audience, with measurable follow-up: define who attends, why, and what metrics track retention. Build mentorship… | ||
| Open Source DEI: Transitioning from Intentions to Impact | Anita Ihuman | 44m |
CHAOSS runs an interview campaign launched October 2022 that gathers qualitative and quantitative feedback from 150 participants to test whether CHAOSS DEI… | ||
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