GitHub is holding its annual ‘Universe’ conference in San Francisco this week.
GitHub is still searching for someone to head up its diversity efforts, three months after social impact VP Nicole Sanchez resigned.
“We’ve got searches going for that position,” chief strategy officer Julio Avalos told Techworld .
The person hired will be responsible for internal diversity and inclusion efforts, he explained.
The company has a Code of Conduct and a seven-strong ‘community and safety’ team, both of which are aimed at ensuring the platform is as inclusive as possible for developers who use it.
However Avalos admitted that the software development sector “100 percent” has an image problem.
“Tech requires something of a Promethean effort. It is like bringing fire. There’s some vestigal thing in the industry, we’re keeping the fire to ourselves in some way. There’s an elitism that needs to be broken up and democratised,” he said.
GitHub, a code repository used by developers launched a decade ago, held its annual ‘GitHub Universe’ conference this week.
The company announced several new features to its platform, including:
GitHub also announced the latest statistics for its platform, which show it is used by 24 million people across 200 countries. The popular programming languages on GitHub are Javascript, Java and Python, in that order.
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