[Air-L] Rerearch on Github Contributors and LinkedIn

[Corinne Cath]

Check out the work of Sian Brooke on gender on Stack overflow.
https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-3519/

Her PhD looks at gender on Github and is not public yet, but also well
worth the read. https://www.sianbrooke.co.uk/

Kind regards,

-- 
Corinne Cath - Speth
Ph.D. Candidate, Oxford Internet Institute & Alan Turing Institute

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On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 7:33 AM Brenda Moon <brenda at moon.net.au> wrote:

> 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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-- 
Corinne Cath - Speth
Ph.D. Candidate, Oxford Internet Institute & Alan Turing Institute

Web: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/corinne-cath
Email: ccath at turing.ac.uk & corinnecath at gmail.com
Twitter: @C_CS