Carnegie Mellon did a survey of ~300 Apache developers (56 committers) a while ago, and posted interim results to respondents last month. With the permission of the researcher, here are some stats:
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 03:35:18PM +0100, Danny Angus wrote: > > Vincent Massol once wrote: > > > I was curious to know who the other committers where, whether they shared > the same beliefs I have, etc. > > This prompted me to wonder: > > 1/ are we.. > a)male > b)female 98.89% male 1.11% female > 2/are we > a) young > b) 20-30 > c) 30-40 > d) 40-50 > d) old < 19 : 1.1% 20-29 : 50.55% 30-39 : 41.03% 40-49 : 6.59% > 50 : 0.73% > 3/about English > a)its my native language > b)its a second language, I live in an English speaking country > c)I'm fluent but I live in a non-English speaking country > d)other, tell me.. Strangely they didn't ask this. However, 90% of people come from what I hazily regard as "English speaking countries" (US, England, Aus, NZ). > 4/do we have > a)a full beard > b)a goatee > c)a moustache > d)noneoftheabove > > 5/wear sandals > a)never > b)sometimes > c)always Nor did they ask these, missing a golden opportunity to come up with an identikit-style portait of J Random Apache Hacker. The person running the survey is Jeff Roberts (jroberts at andrew.cmu.edu). --Jeff > > d. > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
