Perceptions of Diversity on GitHub: A User Survey

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Citation: Bogdan Vasilescu, Vladimir Filkov, Alexander Serebrenik (2015) Perceptions of Diversity on GitHub: A User Survey. 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE) (RSS)
DOI (original publisher): 10.1109/CHASE.2015.14
Semantic Scholar (metadata): 10.1109/CHASE.2015.14
Sci-Hub (fulltext): 10.1109/CHASE.2015.14
Internet Archive Scholar (search for fulltext): Perceptions of Diversity on GitHub: A User Survey
Download: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.699.6556&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Tagged: survey (RSS), open source (RSS), github (RSS), diversity (RSS)

Summary

Further describes survey also used in Gender and Tenure Diversity in GitHub Teams.

Survey consisted of 20 questions, 3 open-ended, covering demographics, experience with GitHub, and experience with one repository (among those contributed to by respondent, selected by respondent) concerning team membership, team member characteristics, and rating of experience working with diverse teams.

Sent survey to 4500 GitHub contributors stratified by gender (1/3 female) and number of projects contributed to. Achieved 19% response rate, of those 24% female indicating lower response rate for women.

Significant differences between male and female respondents reporting of occupations, years of IT/programming experience, nationality found, and use of public (but not private) repositories found.

RQ1. What do people perceive constitutes a team?

Most popular (72%) answer was most inclusive (anything done in repository)

RQ2. How does team composition change with time?

Teams could be categorized as fluid (53%), commercial (19%), academic (6%), or stable (21%).

RQ3. Do individuals recognize differences among others on their team? Which differences are more prominent?

74% recognized differences in programming skills, 48% gender, various others down to 4% political views.

RQ4. What mechanisms contribute to increased awareness of diversity attributes among team members?

In person interactions, GitHub-enabled interactions, Email, Instant Messaging, Social Media.

RQ5. How is diversity perceived to influence collaboration?

62% positive, 30% sometimes positive/sometimes negative, rest NA or unanswered, 0% negative

Free-form answers to effects discussed.


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