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Ashe Dryden
April 24, 2014
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Craft Conf - Open Source isn't for everyone (but it could be)
Ashe Dryden
April 24, 2014
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Transcript
@ashedryden open source isn’t for everyone (but it could be)
@ashedryden ! ! real life mermaid @ashedryden At the intersection
of tech and culture, ending programmer apocrypha. ! Patron Saint of Catmoms.
@ashedryden
@ashedryden people: the hardest problem in computer science
@ashedryden https://twitter.com/mathiasx/status/288120758968934400
@ashedryden why?
@ashedryden participation
@ashedryden evolution
@ashedryden specialization
@ashedryden oss now
@ashedryden homogenous
@ashedryden 1.5% of contributors are women
@ashedryden ???% of contributors are people of color, LGBTQ, etc
@ashedryden why so low?
@ashedryden time
@ashedryden pay inequality
@ashedryden few compensated for OSS
@ashedryden poor treatment
@ashedryden “Mostly I fear the excessive spotlight for being a
sole female programmer on a publicly available project. In light of how women are treated on the internet, this fear does not seem unreasonable.”
@ashedryden what can i do?
@ashedryden make it obvious
@ashedryden bit.ly/mm-contrib
@ashedryden be inclusive
@ashedryden https://twitter.com/kytrinyx/status/439514571808575488
@ashedryden make it easy
@ashedryden https://twitter.com/saalon/status/429233708596731904
@ashedryden be vulnerable
@ashedryden https://twitter.com/helenhousandi/status/426846717464817665
@ashedryden be patient
@ashedryden “before I respond to an issue, I check their
github profile to see their level of understanding.”
@ashedryden be helpful
@ashedryden “even nice, smart people do unhelpful things.” @li3n3
@ashedryden https://twitter.com/chmouel/status/431178123649249280
@ashedryden make it safe
@ashedryden pay for it
@ashedryden support! Rails Girls Summer of Code railsgirlssummerofcode.org ! Google
Summer of Code google-melange.com ! Gnome’s Outreach Program wiki.gnome.org/ OutreachProgramForWomen
@ashedryden volunteer
@ashedryden resources The Ethics of Unpaid Labor + OSS bit.ly/oss-ethics
! Middleman contributor.md bit.ly/mm-contrib ! Bundler Code of Conduct bundler.io/conduct.html ! Contributor Covenant github.com/Bantik/contributor_covenant
@ashedryden thanks! @ashedryden