Ethnicity and race may determine which open-source software projects in GitHub may be accepted; White had more projects than Asian, Black, and Hispanic: study Thursday, 29 July 2021 09:34 Ethnicity and race may determine which open-source software projects in GitHub may be accepted; White had more projects than Asian, Black, and Hispanic: study Shares Researchers from the University of Waterloo’s Cheriton School of Computer Science have found that ethnicity and race are factors whether a software project or contributions may be accepted or rejected, with researchers also noting that the majority of contributions were developers perceptible as white. The perceived race and ethnicity of a software based on their name online may determine how their open-source software projects are judge online, researchers have found.