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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.
Providing Internet access to the public has come to be an important service, but it can be quite a challenge to do so in a secure, cost-effective way. Maintaining patron privacy on a shared, public computer is one of the problems that librarians face every day. My solution was to switch to an open source (OS) platform for our patron computing.
The problem The following question was emailed to me by Jim Fowler: “I’m a professor at Ohio State and I sit on the committee which is drafting a new IP policy for faculty work. I’…
Pretty solid.
As Phil noted in yesterday’s post, Kuali is moving to a for-profit model, and it looks like it is motivated more by sustainability pressures than by some grand affirmative vision for the organization. There has been a long-term debate in higher education about the value of “community source,” which is a particular governance and funding […]
It's no surprise that a small bug could cause such huge problems. What's amazing, however, is that the code that contained this bug was overseen by only one full-time paid employee.
"Let’s call it the “Cult of the Product.” It’s an almost religious conviction that we all share: buy this thing, and your problems will go away."
Discussions about Open Source Software in Cultural Heritage Organizations
One of the best benefits to open source software is how it can fill in the gaps when developing applications. At times it makes sense to look around an
PostGIS spatial database extension for PostgreSQL.
"In Dr. Chuck’s call to action posting last week, he says, “Does it bother you that about 40 higher educations stopped supporting the Sakai Foundation over the past five years?” We remember the past five years- In budgetary terms, everyone ran for the hills, dug in where we could. The difficulty is that if higher ed doesn’t sustain this effort, who will?"
ResourceSpace is Open Source Digital Asset Management (DAM) software that offers considerable savings over proprietry systems.