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In 2011 Marc Andreessen authored his now famous essay “Why Software Is Eating the World” which highlighted how software is pervasive in all aspects of our day-to-day lives and “every...
Only 3% of the active open source community is women. A University of Tennessee researcher found that harassment drives female contributors away. She offers ideas for creating more inclusive environments.
The Organization for Ethical Source Takes on Stewardship of Contributor Covenant GENEVA, May 27, 2021, the preeminent code of conduct for open source communities. "Today, this historic document enters the next phase of its evolution," said Nathan Schnieder, professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and OES member. "This milestone marks its 'exit to community,' as Contributor Covenant graduates from a passion project into a community-owned asset." Contributor Covenant was created in 2014 by Coraline Ada Ehmke, an internationally recognized engineer and activist. In 2019 ...
The open-source Contributor Covenant is now managed by the Organization for Ethical Source Managing the technical side of open-source projects is often hard enough, but throw in the inevitable conflicts between contributors, who are often very passionate about their contributions, and things get even harder. One way to establish ground rules for open-source communities is the Contributor Covenant, created by Coraline Ada Ehmke back in 2014. Like so many projects in the open-source world, the Contributor Covenant was also a passion project for Ehmke. Over the years, its first two iterations ha...
JavaScript for Data Science Version 4.0 / January 2020 — Maya — Greg All royalties from the sale of this book are being donated to R-Ladies, a worldwide organization whose mission is to promote gender diversity in the R community. Introduction versus Data Science” would be a better title for this book. While that one word sums up how many people view the language, we hope we can convince you that modern JavaScript is usable as well as useful. Scientists and engineers are who we were thinking of when we wrote this book but we hope that ...