Squashing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Bugs in Open Source Projects...
summary
Open source projects hide actionable problems framed as DEI bugs and the concrete fix cycle is discover understand resolve using gendermag personas; Linux Foundation data shows about 82% identify as men and 30% report identity affecting participation. Practical fixes include adding a README section for documentation-only contributions, marking good first issue with explicit context, running PR parties, and triaging 88 catalogued barriers from a 19-interview Apache/Google study so projects can measure and remove specific process and documentation obstacles.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00DEI bugs in open source
- 3:11Diversity in open source today
- 7:07Unconscious bias as bug
- 11:24GenderMag for DEI bugs
- 20:59Barriers and solutions
- 33:26Framework for DEI challenges
- 35:53Summary
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