Methodologies For Collecting Community Data

@anavelyz, @natmokval, @akcouli, @ruv7, @ashmpace

Introduction

This toolkit is a first draft and work in progress. It was created at the 2023 Diversity and Inclusion in Scientific Computing (DISC) Unconference.

It is provided here with the intention of sharing our work but should not be considered ready for use.

The five co-authors commit to continuing the development of this resource and welcome additional co-authors who are passionate about surveys and data analysis!

Table of Contents

• Definitions - Who is a contributor? Who is a user?

• Community Survey: Satisfaction Data

• Community Survey: Demographic Data - English version

• Demographic Data - Translated versions

• Demographic Data - Recommendations for administering

• Looking Forward: Dashboard for contributor metrics

Definitions

• Code contributor: Once a person opens a pull request in a given project.

• Non-code contributor: A person who performs:

  • Conference or event organization focused on open-source software

  • Writing, editing and updating documentation

  • UI/UX Design

  • Operations activities that move forward the goals of a project, such as but not limited to: social media administration, communications administration, fundraising, governance

• Users: A person who has downloaded software to complete a task in the past 12 months.