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  • As a ‘last resort’ if you don’t find any technical tasks in the projects you’d like to contribute to, there’s also plenty of other ways to help:

    • Provide new translations into foreign languages
    • Create detailed bug reports
    • Do in-depth tests of new beta versions or nightly builds
    • Provide a download mirror for the software or seed it via torrent
    • Donate money to the core maintainers
    • Improve the documentation
    • Create (video) tutorials to improve the start for other users and make the software known to a broader audience
    • Register in forums and help other users with their issues

    Or simply ask the maintainers how you might contribute in a meaningful way. I’m sure they’ll appreciate your offer!


  • The study differentiates between male and female only and purely based on physical features such as eye brows, mustache etc.

    I agree you can’t see one’s gender but I would say for the study this can be ignored. If you want to measure a bias (‘women code better/worse than men’), it only matters what people believe to see. So if a person looks rather male than female for a majority of GitHub users, it can be counted as male in the statistics. Even if they have the opposite sex, are non-binary or indentify as something else, it shouldn’t impact one’s bias.




  • Anyone found the specific numbers of acceptance rate with in comparison to no knowledge of the gender?

    On researchgate I only found the abstract and a chart that doesn’t indicate exactly which numbers are shown.

    edit:

    Interesting for me is that not only women but also men had significantly lower accepance rates once their gender was disclosed. So either we as humans have a really strange bias here or non binary coders are the only ones trusted.

    edit²:

    I’m not sure if I like the method of disclosing people’s gender here. Gendered profiles had their full name as their user name and/or a photography as their profile picture that indicates a gender.

    So it’s not only a gendered VS. non-gendered but also a anonymous VS. indentified individual comparison.

    And apparantly we trust people more if we know more about their skills (insiders rank way higher than outsiders) and less about the person behind (pseudonym VS. name/photography).