Women in open source software innovation process: Where are they?
The Open Source Software (OSS) Innovation process is no more a foreign face in the software development community as it is increasingly being used as a platform for modern software innovation both in the commercial and software research community. Although the concept of freedom is mostly prominent...
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my.uum.repo.70172016-12-07T07:23:39Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/7017/ Women in open source software innovation process: Where are they? Mahmod, Musyrifah Md Dahalin, Zulkhairi HQ The family. Marriage. Woman QA76 Computer software The Open Source Software (OSS) Innovation process is no more a foreign face in the software development community as it is increasingly being used as a platform for modern software innovation both in the commercial and software research community. Although the concept of freedom is mostly prominent with the OSS innovation process, less than 2% of the contributors are women in this male-dominated area. Minorities, including women, are often ignored in its process. This paper presents the case of lack of participation from women in the OSS innovation process. Lack of participation and contributions from women in OSS innovation creates an imbalanced population in the OSS-based knowledge demography and an unbalanced proportion of gender distribution.Based on a comprehensive review, this paper aims to suggest a Constructivist-Technofeminist-OSS Innovation Process framework for understanding female contributions in OSS innovation, not only from a singular point of technical view, but also from social constructivist and feminist perspectives Universiti Utara Malaysia Press 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/7017/1/jict117.pdf Mahmod, Musyrifah and Md Dahalin, Zulkhairi (2012) Women in open source software innovation process: Where are they? Journal of Information and Communication Technology (11). pp. 113-129. ISSN 2180-3862 http://jict.uum.edu.my/ |
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The Open Source Software (OSS) Innovation process is no more a foreign face in the software development community as it is increasingly being used as a platform for modern software innovation both in the commercial and software research community. Although the concept of freedom is mostly prominent with the OSS innovation process, less than 2% of the contributors are women in this male-dominated area. Minorities, including women, are often ignored in its process. This paper presents the case of lack of participation from women in the OSS innovation process. Lack of participation and contributions from women in OSS innovation creates an imbalanced population in the OSS-based knowledge demography and an unbalanced proportion of gender distribution.Based on a comprehensive review, this paper aims to suggest a Constructivist-Technofeminist-OSS Innovation Process framework for understanding female contributions in OSS innovation, not only from a singular point of technical view, but also from social constructivist and feminist perspectives |
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