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

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Message-ID: <51EDDBD2.7090605@huawei.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:26:42 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
To:	Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@...il.com>
CC:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	<ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>,
	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>,
	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Chris Ball <cjb@...top.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

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@...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.
>> 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.

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