I know that a lot of women use gender neutral or male names on GitHub to avoid problems, so identifying women may be difficult. Regards, Brenda
On 5 Aug 2020, at 11:13 am, Ushnish Sengupta <ushnish.sengupta@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Has anyone completed research on Github contributors?
Lets say for example my hypothesis is that the contributors for a particular software project are mostly male, and very few are female. You might say this is a given, but Open Source Software production is notoriously gendered, racialized etc. there is some broad research indicating these imbalances, and I would like to try it on a software project basis to affect real change.
The good news: Github provides the list of contributors, number of commits for each project. But, the contributors are listed by username, by itself not useful in determining demographics. From the username, and some biographical details, I can probably locate most contributors on another open platform LinkedIn to determine demographics of contributors to a particular project on Github. So all analysis will be based on open and publicly available data.
Anyone done any similar analysis on Github or LinkedIn?
I know identification of gender and other demographics from social media profiles is fraught with problems. But I also see many activists, doing this type of analysis to gather data on race, gender etc to shine a light on imbalances. And although the initial analysis is flawed and incomplete, the company/organizaion/project eventually responds wih substantial changes (including proper demographic surveys!). So sometimes the ends justify the initial means.
Sincerely Ushnish Sengupta
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