Widening Participation in Open Source Communities – London 22/10/2015
This year’s BCS OSSG AGM will be followed by a session on Widening Participation in Open Source Communities.
The event will be held on Thursday 22nd October at BCS HQ – 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA from 5:30pm to 8:00pm.
The BCS OSSG AGM is for BCS OSSG members only – but the following evening event is open to all BCS members and non-members. Booking is required.
The timetable for the evening will be:
- 17:00 – Registration & refreshments
- 17:30 – AGM (BCS OSSG members only)
- 18:00 – Widening Participation talks
- 20:00 – Sandwiches + Networking
Gender, Representation and Online Participation: A Quantitative Study
Online communities are flourishing as social meeting web spaces for users and peer community members.
Different online communities require different levels of competence for participants to join, and scattered evidence suggests that females and minorities as participants can be underrepresented. Additional anecdotal evidence suggests that women withdraw from unfriendly online communities.
