GitHub's Open Source Survey (2017) (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

On Friday, June 2, 2017 – GitHub announced the details of their Open Source Survey – an open data set on the open source community for researchers and the curious. Frannie Zlotnick, Nadia Eghbal, and Mikeal Rogers joined the show to talk through the backstory and key insights of this open data project which sheds light on the broader open source community’s attitudes, experiences, and backgrounds of those who use, build, and maintain open source software.

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Featuring:

• Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
• Frannie Zlotnick – GitHub
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

• opensourcesurvey.org
• github/open-source-survey
• GitHub Blog: Announcing an open data set on the open source community
• Spotlight #10: How China Does Node with Shiya Luo at Node.js Interactive 2016
• Oh, and here’s that Wired article Mikeal mentioned

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