Gender and tenure diversity in GitHub teams

B.N. Vasilescu; D. Posnett; B. Ray; M.G.J. Brand, van den; A. Serebrenik; P. Devanbu; V. Filkov

doi:10.1145/2702123.2702549

Gender and tenure diversity in GitHub teams

B.N. Vasilescu, D. Posnett, B. Ray, M.G.J. Brand, van den, A. Serebrenik, P. Devanbu, V. Filkov

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Abstract

Software development is usually a collaborative venture. Open Source Software (OSS) projects are no exception; indeed, by design, the OSS approach can accommodate teams that are more open, geographically distributed, and dynamic than commercial teams. This, we find, leads to OSS teams that are quite diverse. Team diversity, predominantly in offline groups, is known to correlate with team output, mostly with positive effects. How about in OSS? Using GitHub, the largest publicly available collection of OSS projects, we studied how gender and tenure diversity relate to team productivity and turnover. Using regression modeling of GitHub data and the results of a survey, we show that both gender and tenure diversity are positive and significant predictors of productivity, together explaining a sizable fraction of the data variability. These results can inform decision making on all levels, leading to better outcomes in recruiting and performance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'15, Seoul, Korea, April 18-23, 2015)
Place of Publication	New York NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Pages	3789-3798
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-3145-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702549
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 18 Apr 2015 → 23 Apr 2015 Conference number: 33 https://chi2015.acm.org/ https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2702123

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Conference	33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015
Abbreviated title	CHI 2015
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	18/04/15 → 23/04/15
Other	"Crossings"
Internet address	https://chi2015.acm.org/ https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2702123

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Vasilescu, B. N., Posnett, D., Ray, B., Brand, van den, M. G. J., Serebrenik, A., Devanbu, P., & Filkov, V. (2015). Gender and tenure diversity in GitHub teams. In 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'15, Seoul, Korea, April 18-23, 2015) (pp. 3789-3798). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702549

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Vasilescu, BN, Posnett, D, Ray, B, Brand, van den, MGJ , Serebrenik, A, Devanbu, P & Filkov, V 2015, Gender and tenure diversity in GitHub teams. in 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'15, Seoul, Korea, April 18-23, 2015). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York NY, pp. 3789-3798, 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 18/04/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702549

Gender and tenure diversity in GitHub teams. / Vasilescu, B.N.; Posnett, D.; Ray, B. et al.
33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'15, Seoul, Korea, April 18-23, 2015). New York NY: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2015. p. 3789-3798.

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