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

Li Zefan
2013-07-23T01:26:42Z

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@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...
>

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.