On 2013/7/21 21:22, Ric Wheeler wrote: > On 07/20/2013 01:04 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> n Fri, 2013-07-19 at 13:42 -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: >>> >On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Ingo Molnar<mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> > > >>>> > >* Felipe Contreras<felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> > >>>>> > >>As Linus already pointed out, not everybody has to work with everybody. >>>> > > >>>> > >That's not the point though, the point is to potentially roughly double >>>> > >the creative brain capacity of the Linux kernel project. >>> > >>> >Unfortunately that's impossible; we all know there aren't as many >>> >women programmers as there are men. >> In some countries, though not all. >> >> But we also know (or should realise) that the gender ratio among >> programmers in general is much less unbalanced than in some free >> software communities including the Linux kernel developers. >> > > Just a couple of data points to add. > > When I was in graduate school in Israel, we had more women doing their phd then men. Not a huge sample, but it was interesting. > > The counter sample is the number of coding women we have at Red Hat in the kernel team. We are around zero per cent. Certainly a sign that we need to do better, regardless of the broader community challenges... > IT companies in China, they try to make sure there's at least one (most the time the result is just one) female developer/tester in a team, and a team is ~10 people. Even if it's a kernel team, but it's harder to meet. Don't know if the same strategy is applied in other countries. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html