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

[Daniel Carrera]

Hello,

Is this list open to males as well? Ok, I guess I know the answer, but
seriously, I hope nobody minds my presence. I'm a guy, but I want to
encourage women in open source. My name is Daniel, I'm 27. My best known
contribution to FOSS is that I founded a project to write a user guide
for OpenOffice.org (http://oooauthors.org). This project has the highest
proportion of women of any FOSS project I've seen (around 60-75% of the
most active contributors and perhaps 40% of all contributors) so I'd
like to think that I managed to create a positive and constructive
environment there (which was my primary goal throughout).

Cheers,
Daniel.


On Thu, 2006-29-06 at 08:51 +0200, chantal at antenna.nl wrote:
> Quoting Thea P <thealp+ubuntu at gmail.com>:
> 
> > Hi Everyone,
> > My name's Thea and I'm also new to the list (about 2 weeks). I'm a
> > nurse from Toronto, Canada, and I work for a small nonprofit. I'm part
> > of a small group working towards moving our nonprofit from the use of
> > MS Windows and other proprietary products towards Open Source
> > Software, with Ubuntu as the distro for our desktops.
> 
> Hi Everyone, I am Chantal and also new to the mailinglist. I am a 31 year old
> dutch linux system administrator and I am starting up my own business in
> septmeber. I want to focus on opensource as a tool and non profit organisations
> as customers so I am very anxious to here more about your experiences Thea :).
> I have a website but it is in Dutch: http://www.tmcr.nl/
> I recently installed ubuntu on my desktop because I want to know whether it's a
> usefull distro for the desktop for people who are new to linux. So far I find
> it very userfriendly. I would also like to contribute to the development of
> ubuntu but I am not sure how to go about it, I thought I'd start out by joining
> this list  :).
> 
> Greetings, Chantal
> 
> 
> 
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