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Supporting diversity with a new approach to software
Tammarrian RogersJon Pincus
Open Source Bridge 2016
Hashtag: #osb16 #div5y
Goals for this session
● Shift our thinking
● Gather perspectives
● Share techniques
● Spark conversations and connections
● Get excited
Cultivating a positive, supportive, space
● The opportunity to participate and share is critical
○ Write your thoughts down on index cards
○ We’ll collect them at the end of the session and share the results
Roadmap for today’s journey
● Introduction
● Imagining software that works better for everybody
● Setting Intention, Gender HCI, and other techniques
● Looking forward
Three aspects of diversity in software
● The people and teams that create software
● The processes we use to create software
● Supporting diversity in the software itself
Roadmap for today’s journey
● Introduction
● Imagining software that works better for everybody
● Setting Intention, Gender HCI, and other techniques
● Looking forward
Look around the room
Look around the conference
We - and our friends and allies - are the critical mass to create change
Let’s create a virtuous cycle!
Software that embeds diversity
Diverse, Inclusive
People andCommunities
create
empowers
TechniquesSetting intention
Choose language intentionally
Accessibility
Internationalization and multilingual support
Human-computer interaction: Gender HCI, Feminist HCI, Sustainable HCI, …
Don’t pretend algorithms are “objective”
Pseudonymity and Multiple personas
Muting, blocking, reporting, and content filtering
Flexible self-identification of gender, race,and pronouns
Development tools, languages, environments
User rights
Gender HCI: some key facets
● Self-efficacy: how confident are people in their abilities?
● Information-processing style: start by gathering fairly complete information, or try the first thing that seems promising and backtrack if necessary?
● Risk aversion: how comfortable are people with risk?
● Tinkering: how much do people playfully experiment with the software?
Applying Gender HCI
● Think about the software we’re designing to connect people interested in supporting diversity with technology
● How can this software be better for people who are risk-averse and aren’t confident?
Roadmap for today’s journey
● Introduction
● Imagining software that works better for everybody
● Setting Intention, Gender HCI, and other techniques
● Looking forward
What can we as a community do
to bring this project to fruition?
Software to connect
people (like us!) interested in
supporting diversity with technology
Recap
● Came together as a team and set intention
● Got into a different mindspace before talking about details - and revisited it throughout the process
● Looked at specific techniques
● Identified next steps
● And hopefully had fun doing it!
Continuing the journey and staying connected
● We’ll capture results on the wiki● Share the images you came up with at http://div5y.net
○ or the #div5y hashtag on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram● More conversations at Open Source Bridge
Other suggestions?
Stay in touch!
@jdp23
@tammarrian