From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 16 1:49:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-d.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.13.43.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5FB337B419 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 01:49:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id D857B3E92; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 04:50:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C92B6BAA6; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 04:50:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 04:50:37 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: David Greenman Cc: Anthony Atkielski , Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Why no Indians and Arabs? In-Reply-To: <20011215220653.D86349@nexus.root.com> Message-ID: <20011216044542.Y86103-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, David Greenman wrote: >>Why does a person's nationality or ethnicity matter? > > It doesn't, and the moment that it starts to matter we have a problem. As >already pointed out by Terry, we do in fact have Indian and Arab developers, >some of which I've had the pleasure of becoming friends with. A person's >nationality or ethnicity has never been a criteria for participation in >FreeBSD development (or anything else except skill, competence, and ability >to get along with others). To me this is one of the more interesting things about open source software development in general. The ethnic diversity is amazing. I understand the context in which Greg asked the question. I know he didn't mean to imply that it mattered as such, but it is academically interesting. For instance it might be cool to see a world map with dots representing the homes of the committers and those on the contributions list in the handbook. It would be an interesting exercise in seeing just show diverse and enlightened a community a project of this size supports. I know over the years I've been impressed at some of the top level domains I see regularly communicating over the FreeBSD mailing lists. Brandon D. Valentine -- "Iam mens praetrepidans avet vagari." - G. Valerius Catullus, Carmina, XLVI To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message