[ubuntu-women] Introduction :)

[Clytie Siddall]

Many thanks to Vidya for inviting me to this list!   
अनुगृहितास्मि  (Thankyou, sorta ;) )

Hello everybody :)

I'm not actually an Ubuntu user: I use Mac OSX, definitely my  
favourite OS, but I'm a volunteer open-source translator, so you'll  
see me around the projects. ;)  I'm reg'd on Launchpad.

I'm keen to encourage more women in open source in general: it's a  
great loss that there are so few of us, and that needs to change.

Currently, I mention groups like this, the LInuxchix groups and Gnome- 
Women, on internationalization mailing lists, and personally invite  
any women I meet there. I don't know what the proportion is like in  
your area of OSS, but there are _very_ few women translators. I think  
this could change a lot, if the linguistic process could be separated  
more from the technical process. We probably have a lot of women out  
there with linguistic skills, who don't feel comfortable on the  
command-line, or who haven't had the chance to acquire that  
knowledge, or become comfortable with it.

That's something we can do here: run some tutorials. :)   Via Jabber  
or IRC. I'd love to run an introductory one for translation, if I  
could find enough takers.

I'm also very ill/disabled, so you'll see me waving my accessibility  
hat from time to time. It's really the same issue. It's not about  
being disabled, or female, or lacking in skills in any area. It's  
about making open source an everyday and accepting world.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN