Drupal Developer Survey

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nonsie's picture

I am trying to figure out how many female Drupal developers we have here in Portland and would appreciate your help. I am also interested in companies that might not have any female Drupal developers at all to see if there's any pattern to it. Fill out this survey (http://bit.ly/pdxdugsurvey) if you know of a company that has Drupal developers.

Here's the criteria:
- the company has to have physical location in Portland, OR metro area
- if the company has no physical location anywhere in the world (think Lullabot) but has developers in PDX it is included as well

Companies represented so far:
- Live Axle
- The New Group
- Opensourcery
- Lullabot
- Street Roots
- Shomeya
- OMBU
- Metal Toad
- Drupal Association
- Forward Support, Inc.

I will keep on updating the list as the results come in.

Comments

Equity accross the board

grantkruger's picture

I'd love to find out what you learn. Due to my organization's equity policy, going forward we will be favoring vendors with greater diversity, and this being diversity of all kinds. This is a growing trend and will start to become an issue that can no longer continue to be so roundly ignored by the broader tech industry. A great example is the Austin DrupalCon keynote by Erynn Petersen where she cited data showing how staff diversity improved productivity and profitability, and yet continued to be rare.

I would love to see a survey like this that includes race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, class, ability, geography, age and any other bias. We will be developing a sizable new D8 site next year and we will seek firms with greater diversity. And by diversity I don't just mean numbers because so many Drupal shops have women who are designers, project managers, office managers and such, but then only have white males for developers and upper management. Recommendations for dev shops who already have diversity would be gratefully received, wherever they may be, but those based in Oregon or SW Washington would be preferred.

Sala kahle,
Grant

Diversity

jsimonis's picture

Diversity is so important to me. I love that our company has that (in age, ethnicity/race, and gender). We're still growing and one have one main Drupal developer, but it's a woman (me). I'm also on the board and am a partner in the business. I've had offers to move to other firms, but it always seems like they use women for their excellent coding and organizational skills, but always keep them at the bottom. It's something I am definitely taking into consideration as we continue to grow and add more people.