Stefano Zacchiroli @zacchiro@mastodon.xyz

I'm #hiring a research engineer/data scientist at #TelecomParis to develop methodologies and tools to measure and map geographic diversity in free/#opensource projects at a large scale.

Full info (in French, but the position is open to non-francophones): https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/ingenieure-ou-ingenieur-en-sciences-des-donnees-a-telecom-paris-cdd-12-mois

Thrilled to have coauthored the 1st version of the guidelines for conducting research on the #Linux kernel: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f09f6f9b69821c9efcf16e6b5b466ce9e263ca51 This is in the wake of the UMN incident and will hopefully help fellow sw.eng. scholars to enforce #ethics when studying the #kernel community.

Have you got a paper accepted at @msrconf 2022 in the Technical, Industry, or Data&Tool track, which helps improving free/#opensource software? First: congrats! Second: consider nominating it for the #FOSS award. Deadline March 31st. https://conf.researchr.org/track/msr-2022/msr-2022-foss-award #msr2022

Da leggere. "Esportare la democrazia in Russia? La reazione Usa-Ue ormai è diventata un tentativo di rovesciare Putin" https://www.editorialedomani.it/idee/commenti/ucraina-la-reazione-usa-ue-sta-diventando-un-tentativo-di-rovesciare-putin-spl99h9e

Our paper (with C. Lamb) describing how #reproduciblebuilds help in securing the free/#opensource software #supplychain is now out in the IEEE Software March/April 2022 issue: https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/so/2022/02/09403390/1sLHasmdbXi

cc: @reproducible_builds @debian@quitter.se

#openaccess preprint available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06020

#emacs friends!, does anyone have a as-you-type suggestion hack for completing email recipients with elpa-lbdb? Using M-x lbdb is kinda annoying…

PS yes, the ":" before "and" is horrible, but it's not our fault and it's *not* in the paper, it's just the default and not overridable separator that HAL uses between title and subtitle /o\

finally, we notice a significant *reduction* in women contributions to public code in 2020, correlated with the COVID pandemic. It is plausible that the pandemic has further reduced women ability to contribute to FOSS, hopefully only temporarily

the overall trend applies worldwide, with minor differences in specific regions (e.g., asian regions seem to be characterized by slower diversity increase rates)

we confirm from previous work that gender diversity remains very low in FOSS (<10% of contributions by women overall), that it has been getting "better" steadily over the past 12 years

new #preprint! of upcoming ICSE SEIS paper where, with D. Rossi from @Unibo, we study at very large scale (50 years, 150 million projects) gender diversity in #FOSS, with (and that is the really novel part) a worldwide geographic angle: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03571837v1 #icse2022

Harsh, but fair. https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/web3-fraud#web3

Today is #ilovefs day—saying thanks to the #freesoftware project you love. For starters: thank you @Debian, you've changed the world and my life with it.