1. Hacking In-Group
Bias
for Fun and Profit

2. About Me
Kat Toomajian (MissKat, zarhooie)
Dreamwidth Studios, LLC
50-60 active volunteers
2/3rds are women
65% never coded before
Community & Volunteer Support Admin
Experience
15+ years Non-Profit
6+ years Non-Profit Management

3. Why This Talk
General perceptions
Open Source is insular
You have to be working on the project to work on the project
If you don't do things exactly right, then you'll be eaten alive, possibly without ket
We can hack it!
Let's use SCIENCE

4. Science Words: Basics
Ingroup vs outgroup
Ingroup = us
Outgroup = them
Ingroup bias
Preferential treatment
Ingroup favoritism
Outgroup derogation

5. Science Words: Advanced
Minimal Group Paradigm
Dividing into groups based on meaningless data points

6. Science Words: Advanced
Action Items
Safe social space
Explicit invites
Document your culture
Jargon
Injokes
Etc

7. Science Words: Advanced
Intergroup Aggression
We do THIS, they do THAT
Action Items
Communicate
Find commonalities

8. Science Words: Advanced
Outgroup Homogeneity
We are all different, but they are all the same
Owngroup = individuals

9. Science Words: Advanced
“Ultimately, many forms of discrimination and bias may develop not because outgroup

10. Science Words: Advanced
Outgroup Homogeneity
We are all different, but they are all the same
Owngroup = individuals
Action items
Check your language
Unpack that backpack

11. Science Words: Advanced
Impostor Syndrome, Cognitive Bias, and You
Your contributor's negative self-esteem can and will affect your project

12. Science Words: Advanced
Low self-esteem subjects rated both the ingroup and the outgroup more negatively tha

13. Science Words: Advanced
Impostor Syndrome, Cognitive Bias, and You
Your contributor's negative self-esteem can and will affect your project
Action Items
Identify
3-2-1
3 things you like, 2 you don't, 1 you'll work to fix
Cultural shift

14. Other Cool Stuff
Women stick together
Othering
Common “enemy”?
REPRESENTATION

15. Q&A and Discussion