Women in Open Source

A list of women who are active in the Open Source community

Please use the following format:

[Name](link to github profile), [project](github link to project)

Creators and Maintainers

Women who started the project from scratch

1. Katie Levy, created Truffle-Shuffle
2. Hila Goel, created DockDockBuild
3. Leah Zhao, co-created Metriks
4. Karen Lo, co-created Metriks
5. Crystal Chung, co-created Metriks
6. Kendall Gassner, created eslint-plugin-no-explicit-type-exports
7. Chrissy LeMaire, created dbatools
8. Katrina Owen, created Exercism
9. Liz Rice, created Containers from Scratch with Go
10. Audrey Feldroy, created Cookiecutter
11. Hannah Wolfe, co-founder of Ghost
12. Susmitha Kodamarthi, co-created user-data-for-fraud-prevention

Maintainers

Women who became maintainers because of their amazing contributions

Contributors

Women who contribute or are active in open source projects

1. Samantha Monteiro
2. Madhura Bhave, Spring Boot
3. Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez, ArrowKt
4. Rachel M. Carmena, ArrowKt
5. Svetlana Isakova, Kotlin
6. Tracy Miranda, Jenkins
7. Kara da la Marck, Jenkins X
8. Alyssa Tong, Jenkins Events Officer
9. Ewelina Wilkosz, Jenkins configuration as code

Projects with Female Participation 💪💪💪

1. otwarchive (Archive of Our Own), one of only two open source projects where the majority of contributors are women, according to GeekFeminism
2. Dreamwidth, a fork of LiveJournal and one of only two large open source projects where the majority of contributors are women, according to GeekFeminism
3. Growstuff, founded by Alex Bayley, who is non-binary. Around half of contributors are women
4. OSD-GitHub-101, this repository will be used during Open Source Day at vGHC2020 and aims to reach a total number of 1200 contributions from the conference and workshop attendees!