linux-kernel - Re: [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdUWsppKBNrFSB981MXTeGpb4yPtiL2QW7HiUjUaMej0=g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 2013 22:03:25 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Chris Ball <cjb@...top.org>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Subject: Re: [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@...il.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> * Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.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. So there's absolutely *nothing*
> the Linux kernel can do to double the creative brain capacity of the
> Linux kernel project (at least with respect to women).

There may be less women programmers than men programmers, but that
doesn't say anything about the ratio of female Linux kernel hackers vs.
female programmers.

So let's hope we can prove you wrong soon ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org

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                                -- Linus Torvalds
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