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... -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951
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