Genders' contributions in open source software community: A technofeminist perspective

Open source research often portrays the community as a heterogeneous world involving diverse contributors from all over the globe.However, based on the data gathered from Open Source Software contributors through in-depth interviews and Delphi method showed a diverse new experience.Information regar...

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Main Authors: Mahmod, Musyrifah, Md Dahalin, Zulkhairi
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2016
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author Mahmod, Musyrifah
Md Dahalin, Zulkhairi
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description Open source research often portrays the community as a heterogeneous world involving diverse contributors from all over the globe.However, based on the data gathered from Open Source Software contributors through in-depth interviews and Delphi method showed a diverse new experience.Information regarding gender in Open Source remains scarce, though a wide gender gap still exists in Open Source Communities in spite of the rising numbers of research on Open Source.Taking the stand on Technofeminist perspective, this paper examines the contributions made by genders in Open Source development process.
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spelling uum-233962018-02-15T01:36:17Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/23396/ Genders' contributions in open source software community: A technofeminist perspective Mahmod, Musyrifah Md Dahalin, Zulkhairi QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Open source research often portrays the community as a heterogeneous world involving diverse contributors from all over the globe.However, based on the data gathered from Open Source Software contributors through in-depth interviews and Delphi method showed a diverse new experience.Information regarding gender in Open Source remains scarce, though a wide gender gap still exists in Open Source Communities in spite of the rising numbers of research on Open Source.Taking the stand on Technofeminist perspective, this paper examines the contributions made by genders in Open Source development process. 2016-04-05 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed Mahmod, Musyrifah and Md Dahalin, Zulkhairi (2016) Genders' contributions in open source software community: A technofeminist perspective. In: International Conference on ICT for Transformation 2016, 05-07 April 2016, Center for postgraduate UMS Sabah Malaysia.. (Unpublished)
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Mahmod, Musyrifah
Md Dahalin, Zulkhairi
Genders' contributions in open source software community: A technofeminist perspective
title Genders' contributions in open source software community: A technofeminist perspective
title_full Genders' contributions in open source software community: A technofeminist perspective
title_fullStr Genders' contributions in open source software community: A technofeminist perspective
title_full_unstemmed Genders' contributions in open source software community: A technofeminist perspective
title_short Genders' contributions in open source software community: A technofeminist perspective
title_sort genders contributions in open source software community a technofeminist perspective
topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
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