From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 16 5:26:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AA8E37B405 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 05:26:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fBGDPjR12328; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 14:25:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <004401c18635$2bd802d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Brandon D. Valentine" , "David Greenman" Cc: "Greg Lehey" , "FreeBSD Chat" References: <20011216044542.Y86103-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> Subject: Re: Why no Indians and Arabs? Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 14:25:45 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 Brandon writes: > To me this is one of the more interesting things > about open source software development in general. > The ethnic diversity is amazing. Given that the planet itself is just as diverse ethnically, why would diversity among developers be amazing? > It would be an interesting exercise in seeing > just show diverse and enlightened a community > a project of this size supports. Diversity and enlightenment are not necessarily correlated. > 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. Over a single week, my little Web site receives visitors from over 60 countries. Given that, I'd expect a mailing list like this to cover every country in the world with an Internet connection, every day. In fact, the nature of the Internet is such that I'd expect any public resource to receive visitors from just about every country in the world over a fairly short period. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message