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

[Evelyn Namara]

Hi Daniel,

thanx for the great work you are doing,
personally i feel you are welcome since you have a positive cause for
the women in FOSS and IT.

keep up the good work,
and am happy you support the womrn in IT.

On 6/29/06, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> wrote:
> 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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