Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

Ric Wheeler
2013-07-21T13:22:31Z

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@kernel.org> wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > >* Felipe Contreras<felipe.contreras@gmail.com> 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