Craft Conf - Open Source isn't for everyone (but it could be)

@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

Craft Conf - Open Source isn't for everyone (bu...

Craft Conf - Open Source isn't for everyone (but it could be)

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