scholarly journals Gender differences and bias in open source: pull request acceptance of women versus men

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. e111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Terrell ◽  
Andrew Kofink ◽  
Justin Middleton ◽  
Clarissa Rainear ◽  
Emerson Murphy-Hill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Women In The Workplace ◽  
Large Scale Study ◽  
Pull Request ◽  
Acceptance Rates

Biases against women in the workplace have been documented in a variety of studies. This paper presents a large scale study on gender bias, where we compare acceptance rates of contributions from men versus women in an open source software community. Surprisingly, our results show that women’s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men’s. However, for contributors who are outsiders to a project and their gender is identifiable, men’s acceptance rates are higher. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.

scholarly journals Gender differences and bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Terrell ◽  
Andrew Kofink ◽  
Justin Middleton ◽  
Clarissa Rainear ◽  
Emerson Murphy-Hill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Women In The Workplace ◽  
Pull Request ◽  
Acceptance Rates

Biases against women in the workplace have been documented in a variety of studies. This paper presents the largest study to date on gender bias, where we compare acceptance rates of contributions from men versus women in an open source software community. Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, women's acceptance rates are higher only when they are not identifiable as women. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.

scholarly journals Gender differences and bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Terrell ◽  
Andrew Kofink ◽  
Justin Middleton ◽  
Clarissa Rainear ◽  
Emerson Murphy-Hill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Women In The Workplace ◽  
Pull Request ◽  
Acceptance Rates

Biases against women in the workplace have been documented in a variety of studies. This paper presents the largest study to date on gender bias, where we compare acceptance rates of contributions from men versus women in an open source software community. Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, women's acceptance rates are higher only when they are not identifiable as women. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.

scholarly journals Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Terrell ◽  
Andrew Kofink ◽  
Justin Middleton ◽  
Clarissa Rainear ◽  
Emerson Murphy-Hill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Women In The Workplace ◽  
Pull Request ◽  
Acceptance Rates

Biases against women in the workplace have been documented in a variety of studies. This paper presents the largest study to date on gender bias, where we compare acceptance rates of contributions from men versus women in an open source software community. Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.

A large-scale study of architectural evolution in open-source software systems

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 1146-1193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pooyan Behnamghader ◽  
Duc Minh Le ◽  
Joshua Garcia ◽  
Daniel Link ◽  
Arman Shahbazian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Large Scale Study

scholarly journals PRISMS-Fatigue computational framework for fatigue analysis in polycrystalline metals and alloys

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammadreza Yaghoobi ◽  
Krzysztof S. Stopka ◽  
Aaditya Lakshmanan ◽  
Veera Sundararaghavan ◽  
John E. Allison ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Metals And Alloys ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Computational Framework ◽  
Crystal Plasticity Finite Element ◽  
Polycrystalline Metals ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Open Source Framework

AbstractThe PRISMS-Fatigue open-source framework for simulation-based analysis of microstructural influences on fatigue resistance for polycrystalline metals and alloys is presented here. The framework uses the crystal plasticity finite element method as its microstructure analysis tool and provides a highly efficient, scalable, flexible, and easy-to-use ICME community platform. The PRISMS-Fatigue framework is linked to different open-source software to instantiate microstructures, compute the material response, and assess fatigue indicator parameters. The performance of PRISMS-Fatigue is benchmarked against a similar framework implemented using ABAQUS. Results indicate that the multilevel parallelism scheme of PRISMS-Fatigue is more efficient and scalable than ABAQUS for large-scale fatigue simulations. The performance and flexibility of this framework is demonstrated with various examples that assess the driving force for fatigue crack formation of microstructures with different crystallographic textures, grain morphologies, and grain numbers, and under different multiaxial strain states, strain magnitudes, and boundary conditions.

Developing a Dynamic and Responsive Online Learning Environment

2011 ◽  
pp. 92-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Buchan
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Appropriate Technology ◽  
Online Learning Environment ◽  
Institutional Level ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Community Source

Charles Stuart University adopted the open source software, Sakai, as the foundation for the university’s new, integrated Online Learning Environment. This study explores whether a pedagogical advantage exists in adopting such an open source learning management system. Research suggests that the community source approach to development of open source software has many inherent pedagogical advantages, but this paper examines whether this is due to the choice of open source software or simply having access to appropriate technology for learning and teaching in the 21st century. The author also addresses the challenges of the project management methodology and processes in the large-scale implementation of an open-source courseware management solution at the institutional level. Consequently, this study outlines strategies that an institution can use to harness the potential of a community source approach to software development to meet the institutional and individual user needs into the future.

Taming of ‘Openness' in Software Innovation Systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Gencer ◽  
Beyza Oba
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Systems Of Innovation ◽  
Innovation Potential ◽  
Emergent Community ◽  
Strategic Pattern ◽  
The Continuum

In large-scale open source software (OSS) innovation ecosystems that incorporate firms, a variety of measures are taken to tame the potentially chaotic activities and align the contributions of various participants with the strategic priorities of major stakeholders. Such taming rests on the dual desires of this emergent community of firms to unleash the innovation potential of OSS and to drive it to a certain direction, and it emerges in the form of various organizational activities. By drawing on a sample of large-scale OSS ecosystems, the authors discuss that methods employed for taming are isomorphic, and overview the emerging strategic pattern for establishing systems of innovation. This pattern involves a related set of practices to balance virtues of OSS community while introducing corporate discipline. In contrast to approaches such as open innovation, which favor isolated reasoning, they present a systemic and historical perspective to explain the continuum in emergence and establishment of strategic patterns.

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