Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 14:25:45 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, "David Greenman" <dg@root.com> Cc: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, "FreeBSD Chat" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why no Indians and Arabs? Message-ID: <004401c18635$2bd802d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20011216044542.Y86103-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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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
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