Open source barriers to entry, revisited

Mendez, Christopher; Padala, Hema Susmita; Steine-Hanson, Zoe; Hilderbrand, Claudia; Horvath, Amber; Hill, Charles G.; Simpson, Logan; Patil, Nupoor; Sarma, Anita; Burnett, Margaret

doi:10.1145/3180155.3180241

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“…32 Moreover, a recent study confirms that over 80% of the barrier types for newcomer include attributes that are biased against women. 33 Since women often suffer the competence-confidence gap, 34 creating a path and lowering barriers for female developers' selfguided personal development is critical for them to achieve their own technical distinctions and for the community to benefit from gender diversity.…”

Section: Promoting Women's Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Gender Reputation Differences on Online Programming Q&A Communities

Wang

2019

Journal of Computer Information Systems

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Women are underrepresented in the software development labor market. Many women utilize online programming Q&A communities to gain access to technical fields. They serve as a knowledge base for informal learning and provide opportunities for individuals to exhibit credible, verifiable expertise for career advancement. However, they are often male-oriented and create barriers for women to participate and earn reputations. We develop an understanding of how male and female developers participate in the online Q&A communities and how their participation impacts their successfulness regarding reputations. Using the data from the Stack Overflow, we quantitatively examine the differences in behavior and outcomes between men and women. The results reveal significant differences in how men and women participate and how successful they are, for example, women have lower reputations on average which are mostly resulting from women and men's differences in their activities. We further discuss designing an alternative gender-neutral reputation mechanism.

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Section: Promoting Women's Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Gender Reputation Differences on Online Programming Q&A Communities

Wang

2019

Journal of Computer Information Systems

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“…We also argue that social coding platforms like GITHUB could benefit from recommendation engines for newcomers looking for projects to join; these should take social capital into account when making a recommendation (cf. [23]); furthermore, GITHUB could facilitate project maintainers tracking trends in factors negatively associated with the development of social capital, particularly among women.…”

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Going Farther Together: The Impact of Social Capital on Sustained Participation in Open Source

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Nolte

Brown

et al. 2019

2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

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“…The research community has recently worked on identification of barriers for participation of women in software development [3,4,8], and we plan to explore whether the recommendations derived from these studies, such as the use of GenderMag [1] to reveal gender-bias issues in software, can benefit open source communities.…”

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OpenStack Gender Diversity Report

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The OpenStack Foundation's goal is to "promote the global development, distribution and adoption of open infrastructure." As in many other open source communities, and in the technology industry as a whole, the OpenStack community reflected a lack of representation of females and underrepresented minorities, a fact that should be supported with evidence. Intel and Bitergia have conducted research to assess the current state of gender diversity within the community, examining both code and non-code contributions, including leadership, governance, and event representation, among other elements. In this paper, the authors summarize the results of this research. They discuss the importance of using data to increase awareness of this issue and to guide subsequent actions to improve the diversity and inclusion within the OpenStack community. This is the first comprehensive analysis of gender diversity within the OpenStack community, and has opened the possibility of extending insights from this research to other communities. Why Gender?Engagement of people of different genders in software engineering is heavily skewed towards men; multiple studies show that the situation in open source is even worse [11,12]. There are several reasons why diversity, in all of its forms, is essential in open source communities, and the larger technology industry. Indeed, in addition to the ethical arguments favoring diversity, recent studies show that gender diversity leads to better balance between the traits of feminine and masculine roles [2], makes teams more productive [12] and benefits both industrial and academic teams [5]. Moreover, a more diverse development team comes closer to the inherently diverse population of the software users. Therefore, a more diverse development team is more likely to understand and represent the users' needs, contributing to the better alignment between software and its intended customers [9].Not surprisingly, multiple open source projects have tried to increase the diversity of their communities, specifically gender diversity, as evident in the formation of many "Women in" groups established in Linux, GNOME, Ubuntu or Debian. Despite these efforts, the situation has not changed much in the last 15 years, resulting in what has been called a `lost decade' in the integration of women in open source [10]. Understanding the success or failure of these and similar activities starts with measuring the participation of females -in terms of both population and level of activity -within a specific open source project. Below we report on our experience with measuring gender diversity.While we focus on OpenStack, a well-known open source project involving thousands of contributors, many of them employed by companies, the proposed analysis and methodology have been developed with the aim of increasing the understanding of diversity and inclusion across the open source ecosystem as a whole. Why Focus on OpenStack?The OpenStack community has long recognized the importance of gender diversity, reflected in ongoing d...

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Open source barriers to entry, revisited

Cited by 115 publications

References 54 publications

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Gender Reputation Differences on Online Programming Q&A Communities

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Gender Reputation Differences on Online Programming Q&A Communities

Going Farther Together: The Impact of Social Capital on Sustained Participation in Open Source

OpenStack Gender Diversity Report

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