[Air-L] Rerearch on Github Contributors and LinkedIn

[Brenda Moon]

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 at 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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