[UbuntuWomen] No, you're not... :)

[Elizabeth Krumbach]

On Wed, June 28, 2006 12:10 pm, Linnéa Björk Timm wrote:
> I've been lurking around for a while, but never properly introduced myself
> since you all seem to be high educated, smart women and I'm only 19 years
> old and not educated at all yet :)

No formal education doesn't mean you're not educated, I know you from IRC
so I know you're no dummy. Don't underestimate yourself.

> Anyway, I'm from Sweden and have a huge interest in free software and
> Ubuntu.
> I'm active in the swedish LoCo, wich I find have a nice approach towards
> women (as in treating them no different than men) - that might be because
> I'm almost the only women active, so everybody knows me...

I am the coordinator for one of the Linux Users Groups in my area, I've
found that more women tend to come out of the woodwork if others start
showing up at meetings. Mostly people treat me like everyone else now that
they know me (except for the few fellows who are shy and seem to be scared
of me).

Lyz (pleia2)

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