Thank you for your interest in participating in the NumFOCUS' "Contributor Diversity and Retention" (CDR) research project!

NumFOCUS works closely with 90+ open-source scientific computing projects and we care deeply about finding ways to support our projects around building diverse, inclusive, and sustainable contributor communities.

Our team is conducting research funded by the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, focused on understanding the barriers and challenges that contributors from historically underrepresented groups face when engaging with open source project communities.

Hearing directly from contributors, developers and maintainers about their experiences will help us guide all of our projects and the broader open-source community to understand best practices for onboarding and retaining a diverse community of contributors.

Twenty NumFOCUS open source projects are supporting the research by reaching out to their communities to help us find contributors interested in participating in a short 30-min interview.

We are very excited to hear from new contributors, project developers & maintainers and as well as those that have contributed in the past.


Data Privacy

Your interview responses will be kept strictly confidential except if you give explicit authorization to quote you anonymously in the report. Taking part in this study is completely voluntary, but your views are very important to us.

Any data collected will be kept only for the purpose of the research and discarded as soon as the final report is produced. Data will not be stored for more than 6 months following the end of the collection.

Integrity and confidentiality: the data on this form is collected using Typeform, a very secure data gathering platform. All workstations and Typeform devices are fully encrypted to guarantee the confidentiality of the information they contain. For more details about Typeform security please refer to this link.

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