Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:59:19 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [ATTEND] How to act on LKML |
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* Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 07:40:43AM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > > > Go look at Dreamwidth, the open source Livejournal fork. It has a > > good code of conduct, so developers are civil to each other. They > > encourage all patch submissions, and take the time to work with people > > who don't understand their community rules. > > > > The result: 75% of their developers are women. If you give a flying > > fuck about diversity, and want to attract women to your open source > > project, your developers need to be civil, and not verbally abuse each > > other. > > But this has nothing to do with a project's success or quality, gender > is not related. Are you suggesting that with more women the Linux kernel > would be a more successful project ? If so I think you're a bit biased. > In my opinion, only its good people make it a good project, whatever > their gender.
I don't necessarily agree with everything that Sarah has stated, but I think we can declare it with scientific certainty that utilizing the other 50% of creative brainpower that humanity has available can only improve the Linux kernel, and drastically so.
( The "how" is the 1 trillion dollars question, and I'm glad Sarah is working on that problem. )
Thanks,
Ingo
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