Intel has been running 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 community.intel.com.