On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Dan Armak wrote: > On Thursday 24 July 2003 0:26, Itay 'z9u2K' Duvdevani wrote: > > > no women, one black dud, one arab. That leads me to think that to be a > > > kernel hacker you must be: a white american/europian geek male. OK, now 3 > > > linux chicks left this mailing list, that sux... :( > > > > I've noticed that also... makes you wonder... > > but how can it be? isn't open source should be spread around the world > > equally between people? I mean, everyone, from anywhere, in any > > race/sex/nationality can get in to the kernel development if she/he is > > talented enough... how can it be? > > Perhaps it's a matter of who was able to get to the summit, which afaik was in > the US? Travel isn't cheap, unless someone was paying for free tickets for > all kernel devs... > > I believe those who came to the kernel summit did get their expenses paid (and more), by companies who were dying to sponsor the event, in return for being able to give a talk (saying where they need linux to go) at least the guy I talked to.
I think there were about 10-15 women in the OLS women in Linux BOFS (and about the same number of men). As for origin countries- there are much more people from out of US then I expected, though the majority is indeed from the US. I have met in OLS people from Norwey, France, Serbia, Iran (Behdad is here). Orna, reporting from Ottawa. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
