Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:59:19 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>,
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* Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 07:40:43AM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote:
>
> > Go look at Dreamwidth, the open source Livejournal fork.  It has a 
> > good code of conduct, so developers are civil to each other.  They 
> > encourage all patch submissions, and take the time to work with people 
> > who don't understand their community rules.
> > 
> > The result: 75% of their developers are women.  If you give a flying 
> > fuck about diversity, and want to attract women to your open source 
> > project, your developers need to be civil, and not verbally abuse each 
> > other.
> 
> But this has nothing to do with a project's success or quality, gender 
> is not related. Are you suggesting that with more women the Linux kernel 
> would be a more successful project ? If so I think you're a bit biased. 
> In my opinion, only its good people make it a good project, whatever 
> their gender.

I don't necessarily agree with everything that Sarah has stated, but I 
think we can declare it with scientific certainty that utilizing the other 
50% of creative brainpower that humanity has available can only improve 
the Linux kernel, and drastically so.

( The "how" is the 1 trillion dollars question, and I'm glad Sarah is
  working on that problem. )

Thanks,

	Ingo
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