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Creator:: Mendez, Christopher, Pedala, Hema Susmita, Steine-Hanson, Zoe, Hilderbrand, Claudia, Horvath, Amber, Hill, Charles, Simpson, Logan, Patil, Nupoor, Sarma, Anita, and Burnett, Margaret
Abstract:: Software (OSS) communities and that women disproportionately experience such barriers. However, this research has focused mainly on social/cultural factors, ignoring the environment itself — the tools and infrastructure. To shed some light onto how tools and infrastructure might somehow factor into OSS barriers to entry, we conducted a field study...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Open Source barriers to entry, revisited: A tools

Creator:: Chatterjee, Amreeta, Guizani, Mariam, Stevens, Catherine, Emard, Jillian, May, Mary Evelyn, Burnett, Margaret, Ahmed, Iftekhar, and Sarma, Anita
Abstract:: The tools and infrastructure used in tech, including Open Source Software (OSS), can embed “inclusivity bugs”—features that disproportionately disadvantage particular groups of contributors. To see whether OSS developers have existing practices to ward off such bugs, we surveyed 266 OSS developers. Our results show that a majority (77%) of developers...
Resource Type:: Conference Proceeding
Full Text:: practices to ward off such bugs, we surveyed 266 OSS developers. Our results show that a majority (77%) of

Creator:: Guizani, Mariam, Steinmacher, Igor, Emard, Jillian, Fallatah, Abrar, Burnett, Margaret, and Sarma, Anita
Abstract:: Background: Although some previous research has found ways to find inclusivity bugs (biases in software that introduce inequities among cognitively diverse individuals), little attention has been paid to how to go about fixing such bugs. We hypothesized that Information Architecture (IA)--the way information is organized, structured and labeled--may provide the...
Resource Type:: Research Paper
Full Text:: conducted a qualitative empirical investigation in three stages. (Stage 1): An Open Source (OSS) team used

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