Building Bridges in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Open Source
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The talk describes practical efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in open-source Python projects by building local communities (PyLadies Colombia chapters in Bogotá, Cali, Medellín), cofounding Mujeres en Bioinformática y Ciencia de Datos LATAM, and organizing events like Scipy LatAm 2019. It covers project work such as a NumFOCUS-funded Pandas grant to modernize legacy code and run contributor sprints, translating Spyder documentation into Spanish, and outcomes like a Jupyter DEI onboarding script and a three-day mentorship pairing at PyData Global 2023, while identifying barriers including time zones, cultural tone differences, and platform accessibility (e.g., GitHub).
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10My DEI and Open Source journey
- 8:08Contributing to Open Source
- 13:17DEI committees work
- 19:00Diversity and inclusion challenges
- 22:26How to participate and Q&A
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