Bridging the Gap Between Open Source and University Students and Women
There exists a large number of programs that act as a source of motivation for university students to contribute to open source such as Google Summer of Code, Outreachy, Rails girls summer of code etc …
| Talk Title | Bridging the Gap Between Open Source and University Students and Women |
| Speakers | Paavini Nanda (Software Engineer, Bloomberg) |
| Conference | Open Source Summit + ELC Europe |
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| Location | Lyon, France |
| Date | Oct 27-Nov 1, 2019 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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There exists a large number of programs that act as a source of motivation for university students to contribute to open source such as Google Summer of Code, Outreachy, Rails girls summer of code etc. But,- What is the proportion of women and students contributing to open source?- Why is there such small number of women and students in open source?- Why do we need more women and students in open source?- What are the problems that students face when they first try to contribute?- How can these problems be solved?- What measures can be taken to make the metrics better?I myself faced a lot of these issues and I still keep getting a lot of questions from my juniors and other women batchmates about guiding them through it. I intend to answer all the questions. A lot can be done in this scope and it needs to be done.
