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100 Awesome Women in the Open-Source Community You Should Know
- vsoch 10y agoThis is really important to shed light on women developers!
- brador 10y agoThe first ones a dude? The list is awesome and more positive role models for women in tech is always a big plus, but at least check it through for errors!
- anonbanker 10y agoAs soon as I saw Coraline Ehmke, I closed the tab. Not a good list.
- birdsarah 10y agoCare to elaborate?
- anonbanker 10y agoread up on how she decided to foist a social contract on the Ruby devs. She's poisonous.
- jasonpriem 10y agoI love that they're using actual network data to build this list, not just a "who's who" based on someone's general impressions. There is so much potential in applying this kind of network analysis to the GitHub dataset, and I think we're only seeing the beginning with projects like this one, as well as ones like https://libraries.io/ https://libraries.io/ and http://depsy.org http://depsy.org. One thing I missed in this writeup was more explanation of their methods. For instance, why were they only able to make gender guesses for 2mil out of 7mil users? That's unusually low for name-based gender identification. I'm guessing this is because many GitHub accounts didn't have first names, but would be great to actually see. I'd also love to see the percentage of women they found out of those 2 million. Otherwise it's "Top 100 out of the ???? women on GitHub." Hopefully this will be addressed in the followup posts they promised. I'll be looking forward to them. [disclosure: I'm a PI on http://depsy.org http://depsy.org, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. And one of the gals on this list is my co-PI]