It's time to acknowledge a common trend: Open Source average contributor profile is middle-aged, white male, Western European, or North American. This demographic is not unique to Eclipse Foundation —it is a widely recognised stat among open source projects.
Open source global adoption needs to be linked to Global development. Different audiences have different needs and problem-solving perspectives.
Diversity in open source is about more than just gender—it encompasses age, language, race, sexuality, disability, and social backgrounds (education, geography, religion, internet access, environment, etc.).
In this session, we invite all our community members to help us create the basis to define a more diverse approach for our contributors and project development process.
Let's lower the barrier and work on project sustainability through diversity.