Dear colleagues, I wanted to share lots of links that you might find interesting: papers, talks & articles, reports & opinions. Each one deserves a whole post & lots of analysis & discussion -- please reply to this, or start own thread, or post it to forum.ripe.net . Regards, Vesna 1) Relevant to the talk by Natasa Mojsilovic at RIPE88: "Qualifying and Quantifying the Benefits of Mindfulness Practices for IT Workers" Cristina Martinez Montes, Fredrik Sjo ̈gren, Adam Klevfors Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Chalmers, Gothenburg, Sweden https://conf.researchr.org/getImage/ict4s-2024/orig/ICT4S2024_paper_45.pdf 2)*quantification* of emotional labour & care work "Automation acceptance for sustainable digital daily life" by Emilie Vrain†, Environmental Change Institute School of Geography and Environment University of Oxford https://conf.researchr.org/getImage/ict4s-2024/orig/ICT4S2024_paper_49.pdf 3) The Iceberg Model: towards unraveling our patriarchal legacy; BY MATT WYNNE JUNE 27, 2024 At the DDD Europe 2024 conference in Amsterdam, Diana Montalion and I co-hosted a hands-on workshop titled Using The Iceberg Model to Improve Sociotechnical Systems. We had an agenda for this workshop that was hidden in plain sight: to analyze the lack of gender diversity in the social system of the software development industry itself. https://www.mechanical-orchard.com/insights/the-iceberg-model-towards-unrave... (& https://2024.dddeurope.com/program/using-the-iceberg-model-to-improve-sociot...) 4) "The Four Freedoms We Want at Work", BY LAURA MORGAN ROBERTS | JUNE 24, 2024 Thinking about the freedoms people have at work can help address diversity, equity, and inclusion concerns as well as employee well-being. https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/the_four_freedoms_we_want_at_w... 5) W3C annually reports on gender and geographic diversity at W3C, since 2018: https://www.w3.org/about/diversity/diversity-report-2024/ 6) The graying open source community needs fresh blood, by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Mon 15 Jul 2024 A "Youth and Open Source" panel was held at the United Nations (UN) Open Source Program Office (OSPO) for Good conference in the UN building in Manhattan. There was only one little problem with it. To quote Ruth Ikegah, a young Nigerian open source project manager, "We need more young people here because I see a lot of old people here." https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/15/opinion_open_source_attract_devs/ === Share & Enjoy, Vesna