>If you genuinely believe this: that it makes no difference, why would you choose to have an all-men judging panel?

I didn't choose. Perhaps the people that did, didn't have a lot of, or maybe any, women to choose from? Or perhaps, and I know this is going to piss off a lot of people, but perhaps the best judges they could find just happened to be men?

In any case, my mind, unlike yours apparently, did not immediately jump to malice or the soft bigotry of them "just not knowing" they fucked up due to innate misogyny.

How many men and women work at Redis Labs? Do you know their qualifications? ratio? Expertise matters a lot when it comes to judging some other person's product.

I am pretty sure, if you were selected, no matter how good other products will be, you chose female build product. Is this fair?

Because 19 of the top 20 contributors to redis are men?

>why would you choose to have an all-men judging panel?

e.g maybe they were the only competent/(interested in taking a part in this project) people avaliable