Category: diversity

Dobri, a new Bitergian joins the nest – Introducing our Technical Writer

In our latest incorporation to the nest, Dobroslawa (or Dobri as she prefers) joined Bitergia as the new team Technical Writer. In this blog post, we’re explaining the role of a Technical Writer, why Bitergia wants to fill this position, and why Dobri is a good fit for the team.  We will also present her professional path, and what ideas she has for the next steps.

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Analysis of the retention rate of the Outreachy program in OpenStack

Mentoring is one of those activities key in any open source communities as well as in any other environment such as internally at companies. The new edition of the OpenStack gender report [to be published], produced by Intel and Bitergia, has focused specifically on those programs that help newcomers and filling the existing knowledge gap.

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Gender Diversity Studies and Talks Summary

Women git committers evolution

When looking back nowadays to the work done on diversity, I’ve realized that it has been quite a trip! My first approach to the topic was in an informal meeting with Nithya Ruff, currently at Comcast. She mentioned that the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo reached (as far as I remember!) 13% of women attending the Summit. And this was a great number if compared to previous summits as the percentage kept growing. But she also mentioned that they received a tweet asking about the current number of technical contributions. Then this is where we decided to have a look at that issue: have numbers, and try to produce some of them from a quantitative point of view.

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Gender-diversity Analysis of the Linux Kernel Technical Contributions

Women doing 1st commit to Linux Kernel by semester

On the 8th of October we joined LinuxCon to share our Gender Diversity Analysis of technical contributions to the Linux Kernel.

We are aware of the diversity gap in the tech industry and the efforts of some institutions, like Linux Foundation, are doing to solve it. So, we decided to add our five cents, working over the weeks to bring some stats about women’s contribution to Linux Kernel.

Before diving deep into our results, let’s take a look at some data we already have from the tech sector. Women represent:

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OpenStack gender/diversity technical contributions analysis

Since last OpenStack Summit in Tokyo we were wondering at Bitergia if we could mix our knowledge on Software Development Metrics and some research we had done about gender/diversity contributions in Debian long time ago. Daniel started working on it, and he submitted a talk for OpenStack Summit in Austin that got accepted!

Updated: Vídeo and slides already available..

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