Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755499Ab3GUNWh (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jul 2013 09:22:37 -0400 Received: from mail-qc0-f180.google.com ([209.85.216.180]:39397 "EHLO mail-qc0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755459Ab3GUNWf (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jul 2013 09:22:35 -0400 Message-ID: <51EBE097.1060204@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 09:22:31 -0400 From: Ric Wheeler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Hutchings CC: Felipe Contreras , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Stefano Stabellini , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Darren Hart , Linux Kernel Mailing List , stable , Willy Tarreau , Chris Ball , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML References: <1373944014.17876.255.camel@gandalf.local.home> <51E4BFA9.1030600@zytor.com> <1373991399.6458.6.camel@gandalf.local.home> <51E59F79.1040903@zytor.com> <20130717144043.GA16513@xanatos> <20130719120841.GH26716@gmail.com> <1374339860.16533.6.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1374339860.16533.6.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1472 Lines: 36 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 wrote: >>> > > >>> > >* Felipe Contreras 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... Ric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/