Linux Foundation starts open-source diversity, equity, and inclusion survey

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2021-07-18 21:30:07

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for Linux and Open Source | July 16, 2021 -- 20:50 GMT (13:50 PDT) | Topic: Enterprise Software

The Linux and open-source community includes many strong leaders who are women and/or people of color, such as Nithya Ruff, the Linux Foundation's chairperson; Abby Kearns, Puppet's CTO; and Kelsey Hightower, Google Cloud principal engineer and Kubernetes expert. But, according to a 2017 GitHub open-source survey, only 3% of developers are female, with 1% identified as non-binary. The study didn't look at race.

It's high time a new long, serious look be taken at just how exclusive open source's white boys' club really is. The Linux Foundation is doing that with a new survey: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in Open Source.