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Creating diverse communities requires effort and commitment to creating inclusive and welcoming spaces. Recognizing that communities which adopt inclusive language and actions attract and retain more individuals from diverse backgrounds, the Linux kernel community adopted inclusive language in Linux 5.8 release. Understanding if this sort of change has been effective is a topic of active research. This MC will take a pulse of the Linux kernel community as it turns 30 this year and discuss some next steps. Experts from the DEI research community will share their perspectives, together with the perspectives from the Linux community members.
Equity and inclusion in Tech is not just about diversity in hiring, but has profound implications for downstream accessibility, user experience, and the next generation of products. Open source has unique challenges and opportunities to advance DEI and drive more inclusive innovation. To better understand these dynamics and the key resources and solutions needed, The Linux Foundation is...
In this interactive session we will discuss why women join OSS, why they stay in OSS and what are their experiences of contributing to OSS. Based on empirical evidence from surveys and interviews, we will brainstorm strategies for welcoming more women to OSS and for improving retention of women in OSS.
Participation of women in Open Source Software (OSS) is very unbalanced, despite various efforts to improve diversity. This is concerning not only because women do not get the chance of career and skill developments afforded by OSS, but also because OSS projects suffer from a lack of diversity of thoughts because of a lack of diversity in their projects. Researchers have been trying to...
Mentoring is crucial for knowledge transfer in open source. But traditional dyadic mentoring formats between an expert and novice are hard to scale. In this talk, I will present the different types of mentoring in open source and focus on implicit mentoring---mentoring taking place in everyday development activities like code-reviews. I will show how implicit mentoring can be automatically...
"Past performance is not an indicator of future" is a common disclaimer in predictions. That being said, understanding the trends and what's working is helpful for doing some goal setting. This session will present some of the diversity data that's been mined from the kernel contributions over the last 30 years, and then open up a discussion as to what are some realistic goals to set for...
Diversity and events have a unique relationship. Events can serve to highlight the lack of diversity in the community, but at the same time create a lot of opportunities to increase diversity as well. In this session, we'll review diversity trends across a decade of events, types of diversity we measure and how those have evolved, efforts to increase diversity and what, if any, impact those...
