Stefano Zacchiroli @zacchiro@mastodon.xyz

This year I've the honor of co-chairing (with Valentina Lenarduzzi) the program committee of #OSS2021 — a well-known #conference (17th ed.) for #FOSS researchers, practitioners, and communities.

Check-out the #CFP at https://www.oss2021.org/track/oss-2021-papers … submissions welcome! (deadline 2021-01-10)

We're hiring a #postdoc to work with @swheritage, @Inria and @MSFTResearch on large-scale #reproducibility in software engineering.
Full details and application instructions at: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2020/07/17/paris-based-postdoc-on-large-scale-reproducibility-in-software-engineering/

We've massively revamped our #SoftwareHeritage #internship offer. If you're a #student interested in #FOSS and its long-term preservation have a look at https://wiki.softwareheritage.org/wiki/Internships and/or let me know. (They are all paid internships hosted by @Inria and co-supervised by me.)

New #halfmarathon personal best @semiparis: 1h45m51s. Amazing weather, if not for the heavy contrary wind in the last 5k... Thanks #Paris. #running

At @SWHeritage we have just crossed a couple of symbolic and yet quite memorable thresholds: we have now archived more than 2 billion unique version control commits, coming from more than 150 million projects. https://archive.softwareheritage.org/

paper submissions for @OSSConference (co-chaired by yours truly and @vale_lenarduzzi) are open until January 24th, hurry up ! CFP and all other info here: https://www.oss2021.org/ #oss2021

Decanter ✔️

nice brief paper on the potential impacts of #GPT3, in particular on writing endeavors https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11023-020-09548-1 (#openaccess, not paywalled)

« We read the #paper that forced #TimnitGebru out of #Google. Here’s what it says » https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-ai-ethics-research-paper-forced-out-timnit-gebru/

👏Stop👏Giving👏Tablets👏To👏Young👏Students👏At👏School👏https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/12/19/131155/classroom-technology-holding-students-back-edtech-kids-education/

Just gave a talk « Towards an #OpenData and #OpenSource Code Scanner for your Open #Compliance » at #OpenComplianceSummit 2020, slides and more info at: https://upsilon.cc/~zack/talks/2020/2020-12-01-open-compliance.pdf

« The Origin of the “#MIT #License” » in #IEEE Annals of the History of Computing https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9263265

My new hobby: getting rid of as many #dotfiles from my home dir as possible, by either moving them to XDG base dirs (~/.config, etc.) or just removing them (e.g., conffiles for apps I haven't used in 10+ years). I'm doing 10 at a time. I should be done by 2030.

For the gory details, more stats, discussion, and limitations, checkout the full paper. Early access version on @ieeesoftware: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MS.2020.3038765 ; preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08488 [6/6]

If these trends were to continue 🤞, #gender #diversity in #publiccode contributions could increase significantly over the next decade (the extrapolation about when it will reach 50% is left as an exercise ☺) [5/6]

The ratio of active female authors (having contributed at least one commit per year) shows similar stable growth. Both trends are more evident and stable in the 2005-2020 period than in previous decades [4/6]

The good news is that the ratio of commits by female authors has grown steadily over the past 50 years, reaching in 2019 for the first time 10% of all #publiccode contributions [3/6]

Key findings are a mixture of good and bad news. The bad news is that, even at this scale, female authors are massively under-represented in #publiccode contributions: male authors have contributed more than 92% of all commits over the past 50 years [2/6]

In an upcoming @ieeesoftware #paper I've conducted a longitudinal #genderstudy of authors of #publiccode commits from @swheritage, analyzing 1.6 billion commits contributed by 33 million distinct authors over a period of 50 years. Short thread w/ links at the end 👇 #FOSS [1/6]