From: Jeff Law <jeffreyalaw@gmail.com>
To: Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: RMS removed from the GCC Steering Committee (was: Remove RMS...)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:35:36 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c4d3dcfc-845e-3c2b-b380-555cf47d55c9@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210401011133.00001e9c@tesio.it>
On 3/31/2021 5:11 PM, Giacomo Tesio wrote:
> 10 out of 13 members of the GCC steering committee work either for
> American corporations (8), their subsidiaries (1) or an American
> University (1) recently covered by the press in India [3].
> Also, 4 of these work for the same corporation (IBM / Red Hat).
Actually, it's just 3 working for IBM/Red Hat. My affiliation changed
earlier this month. I've updated the page appropriately.
>
> The other 3 are from German GmbH (2) or from a Nederlands public agency.
>
>
> To me, and to billions of people, this shows a huge cultural bias.
It's more historical than anything. The majority of members on the
committee were there since its inception back in the late 90s. We are
looking at how to increase diversity on the committee, but that's a
separate and distinct issue from removal of RMS.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-31 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-31 23:11 Giacomo Tesio
2021-03-31 23:35 ` Jeff Law [this message]
2021-04-01 0:04 ` Giacomo Tesio
2021-04-01 1:25 ` RMS removed from the GCC Steering Committee Thomas Rodgers
2021-04-02 10:05 ` Giacomo Tesio
2021-04-02 11:50 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-04-02 13:05 ` Jonathan Wakely
2021-04-02 14:06 ` Giacomo Tesio
2021-04-02 14:39 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-04-02 21:25 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2021-04-03 17:31 ` Giacomo Tesio
2021-04-03 19:33 ` Jonathan Wakely
2021-04-03 23:45 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2021-04-04 9:22 ` Jonathan Wakely
2021-04-04 13:10 ` Giacomo Tesio
2021-04-04 13:49 ` Richard Kenner
2021-04-04 14:38 ` Giacomo Tesio
2021-04-04 17:59 ` Richard Kenner
2021-04-04 14:40 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-04-04 22:53 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2021-04-04 1:08 ` David Edelsohn
2021-04-01 9:13 ` RMS removed from the GCC Steering Committee (was: Remove RMS...) Jonathan Wakely
2021-04-01 9:23 ` Jonathan Wakely
2021-04-03 0:22 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2021-04-01 8:06 ` RMS removed from the GCC Steering Committee Andrea Corallo
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=c4d3dcfc-845e-3c2b-b380-555cf47d55c9@gmail.com \
--to=jeffreyalaw@gmail.com \
--cc=gcc@gcc.gnu.org \
--cc=giacomo@tesio.it \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).