[Air-L] Rerearch on Github Contributors and LinkedIn

[Ushnish Sengupta]

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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