Research Project on OS communities

[bryansmith]

Well, I'm Canadian and am of Dutch and English descent.

Good luck writing your paper - I am just about to write one about OSS too so I am sort of in the same boat.

Bryan

[daacosta]

I was born in th USA but my parents are from Colombia, South America. I hold dual-citizenship from Colombia and the USA...

[burntfuse]

My family's been in the US for 3 generations, before that they came over from Poland (I think).

[carlosponti]

US citizen for 3 or 4 generations. I am of Native American, English, German, Irish and More Decent. Basically put me down as Mutt.

[bigtomrodney]

Irish. Irish all the way back to the Gaels. Got one great grandparent who was Scottish, so like I said 100% Gaelic.

[mvantuyl]

My maternal grandfather was from Germany, my maternal grandmother was from Scotland, my paternal grandmother was from Scotland and my paternal grandfather was from Texas.

[antidrugue]

Canadian, my French ancestors emigrated in America at the beginning of the XVII century (as part of the Company of One Hundred Associates). I'm also part Native (Montagnais) and Irish.

Actualy, here is the first of my family in America (from my mother side) : Guillaume Cousture

[Cabhan]

I am American, with my family coming from Eastern Europe 2 or 3 generations ago.

As far as insights, the Jargon File briedly mentions ethnicities:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/demographics.html

Also, in my experience at least, I have observed very many ethnicities represented in the OSS community. You look at the different distros, and there are tons of translations for each of them into languages I've never heard of.

[Juan Pablo]

Ecuadorian !!! and proud !!!