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Intel Finds More Women Getting Involved In Open-Source, Maintainer Burnout Continues

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Intel has been running [1]an annual open-source developer survey and they recently wrapped up their survey for 2024 and today published the results to provide various insight into the health of open-source development.

Intel's 2024 Open-Source Community Survey found 29% of respondents identified as female, which is a big jump from 8% in their prior survey. Though the sample set of this most recent survey is just 334 respondents.

The Intel survey found the top challenges faced by these open-source developers was documentation and onboarding followed by technical debt, security and vulnerability management, and sustainability. 26% of respondents also reported maintainer burnout.

Intel's survey also found 61% of those surveyed admitted to using AI tools. Most are using open-source AI tools for natural language processing followed by automation and recommendation systems.

Those wanting to go through all of Intel's 2024 Open-Source Community Survey results can find the data at [2]community.intel.com .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-2023-Survey-Results

[2] https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/open-intel/What-s-Next-for-Open-Source-Key-Insights-from-Intel-s-2024-Open/post/1671152



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