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Re:Growing Up Alyssa by dj_mc_merlin on Monday May 22, 2023 @09:47AM (#36031430)
It's not a random pick from the population, or the 95% male ratio in engineering would also be somewhat weird.

They have a small team: https://asahilinux.org/about/

People like to team up with others like them, so the fact that they're more likely to collaborate with other trans people is not weird at all.

Re:Growing Up Alyssa by umanwizard on Monday May 22, 2023 @11:50AM (#36032988)
I don't think she was referring to Asahi there.
Re:Growing Up Alyssa by dj_mc_merlin on Monday May 22, 2023 @11:57AM (#36033073)
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainers.h...

The only graphical subystem she is on the list for is the Panfrost driver. I don't think that counts as "on the board overseeing Linux graphics", not at all. This is one GPU driver. She is on the board overseeing the general graphics for Linux for the Asahi project, so I think that's what she was referring to.

Re:Growing Up Alyssa by minimaul on Monday May 22, 2023 @12:30PM (#36033535)
I suspect it was actually a reference to https://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/.

> X.Org Foundation's (or X.Org for short) purpose is to research, develop, support, organize, administrate, standardize, promote, and defend a free and open accelerated graphics stack and the developers and users thereof. This stack includes, but is not limited to, the following projects: DRM, Mesa, Wayland and the X Window System.

Pretty neatly describes "I’m on the board overseeing Linux graphics.".

Re:Growing Up Alyssa by dj_mc_merlin on Monday May 22, 2023 @12:55PM (#36033839)
This seems more likely than the Asahi Linux team, actually.