It becomes an even stranger thing to focus on when you consider that the main avenue of contribution to open source projects is the Internet, a medium where ide

It becomes an even stranger thing to focus on when you consider that the main avenue of contribution to open source projects is the Internet, a medium where identity is irrelevant. You can be an incredibly productive member of a community and never need to be known as anything but a name, and perhaps "human". Other so-called "identities" are truly irrelevant in this context.