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I wish someone would make a study about why there are so few Israelis in open-source projects.
by cool-RR 17y ago
I wish someone would make a study about why there are so few Israelis in open-source projects.
- ido 17y agoThere are? I seem to recall seeing Israeli names on news groups every once in a while (off the top of my head - some of the top developers of plt scheme and php are Israeli), at least more often than their proportion of the world's population would suggest. Remember that Israel has approximately 7 million people (~1/20 of Japan, ~1/40 of the US, ~1/170 of India). How many Swiss or Bulgarians do you see in the open source world?
- cool-RR 17y agoYou are right that relatively to Israel's population, the number of open-source Israelis may be normal. But I'm not asking this relatively to population size. It's already clear that Israelis have a disproportional number of technology workers/entrepreneurs. I'm asking, why so many tech people but not too many open-source-oriented tech people? I'm active in Python-related communities, and I can recall only one or two Israelis except me in there. Also, I was the only Israeli guy in the last EuroPython, out of a few hundred participants.