The First All-Women OSPO (Comcast)
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Comcast announces a first-ever all-women OSPO and describes a five-person, US-and-India distributed team combining program and project management, software engineering, data science, developer relations, community building, and security/compliance that focuses on defining success, open collaboration, open communications, celebration, and continuity. Presentation cites K–12 history bias (1:3 men to women figures; 178 named women, only 3 tied to technology) and open source gender gaps (4.3–14.2% participation), documents gender-biased peer review (longer review intervals, lower churn per comment), and promotes casual contributions and role-modeling to build inclusion and belonging.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 1:39WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
- 7:49CHALLENGES
- 9:07MYTHS
- 13:02TRUTH
- 18:41DEFINE SUCCESS
- 20:11OSPO TEAM
- 22:50SENSE OF BELONGING
- 24:52OPEN COLLABORATION
- 25:56OPEN COMMUNICATIONS
- 27:18OPEN CULTURE
- 29:14OPEN CELEBRATIONS
- 29:57OSPO CONTINUITY
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