{"id":4036,"date":"2024-03-29T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyber-ihedn.fr\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2025-03-04T16:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T16:42:31","slug":"identification-de-lorigine-geographique-et-du-genre-des-contributeurs-aux-logiciels-libres-et-en-code-source-ouvert-publication-dune-etude-financee-par-la-chaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyber-ihedn.fr\/en\/identification-de-lorigine-geographique-et-du-genre-des-contributeurs-aux-logiciels-libres-et-en-code-source-ouvert-publication-dune-etude-financee-par-la-chaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Identifying the geographical origin and gender of contributors to free and open source software: publication of a study funded by the Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the activities of the Cyber and Digital Sovereignty Chair - IHEDN, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telecom-paris.fr\/stefano-zacchiroli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stefano Zacchiroli (T\u00e9l\u00e9com Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris)<\/a> conducted a study over several months <em>Determining the geographic origin and gender of public code contributors<\/em>, on identifying the geographical origin of contributors to free and open source software (<em>Free and open-source software<\/em> (FOSS) which, according to recent estimates, are present in 96% of software products on the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This raises questions about the risks to digital sovereignty posed by the development of FOSS. FOSS is massively re-used and can be re-used and modified with few restrictions and little supervision by communities of developers from all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This creates dependencies. A single software product may depend transitively on hundreds or even thousands of third-party FOSS components. Conversely, tens of thousands of software packages may depend on relatively unknown (and possibly poorly maintained, insecure or unreliable) open source software produced by a diverse international community of developers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This raises a number of questions and potential problems in terms of digital sovereignty:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Who are the component developers? <em>open source<\/em> on which we depend for our day-to-day software activities?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>More specifically, in which countries are these developers based?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can download it below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An executive summary (<em>executive summary<\/em>) in French explaining the method used.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The technical report on the study.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stefano Zacchiroli is a professor of computer science at T\u00e9l\u00e9com Paris. He is also co-founder and CTO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.softwareheritage.org\/\">Software Heritage<\/a>, the largest archive of software code <em>open source<\/em>. T\u00e9l\u00e9com Paris is a partner of the Cyber and Digital Sovereignty Chair - IHEDN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/cyber-ihedn.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/etude-TP-resume-analytique.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">download the executive summary<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/cyber-ihedn.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/etude-TP-rapport-technique.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">download the technical report<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dans le cadre des activit\u00e9s de la chaire Cyber et souverainet\u00e9 num\u00e9rique \u2013 IHEDN, Stefano Zacchiroli (T\u00e9l\u00e9com Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris) a men\u00e9 sur plusieurs mois l&rsquo;\u00e9tude Determining the geographic origin and gender of public code contributors, sur l&rsquo;identification de l&rsquo;origine g\u00e9ographique des contributeurs aux logiciels libres et en code source ouvert (Free and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,508],"tags":[509,512,513,514,467,496,510,511],"class_list":["post-4036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-activites","category-travaux","tag-foss","tag-institut-polytechnique-de-paris","tag-ipp","tag-logiciel-libre","tag-open-source","tag-source-ouverte","tag-stephano-zacchiroli","tag-telecom-paris-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyber-ihedn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyber-ihedn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyber-ihedn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-ihedn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-ihedn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4036"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-ihedn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4184,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-ihedn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions\/4184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-ihedn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyber-ihedn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-ihedn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-ihedn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}