[ubuntu-women] Re: Introduction

[Clytie Siddall]

On 07/03/2006, at 4:45 AM, Jane Silber wrote:

> I just joined this list and thought I would introduce myself. <snip>
>

Welcome, Jane!

It's great that we're going to have a wide variety of backgrounds and  
skills in this group. We'll all learn from each other, and I hope we  
can support other women in our fields.

I think we [1] should stop saying, "I'm not coding, but...". We're  
all here because we are involved in some activity which is necessary  
to computing. Time we lost the non-coding cringe and affirmed that  
what we do is also an essential part of what makes software and  
hardware accessible to users.

For example, I'd love to see someone here from ThinkGeek, or from  
Slashdot! :)  Having representatives from management and from  
internationalization is a good start.

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

[1] I'm reminding myself, here: I'm one of the worst non-coding  
cringers! :D  I feel really embarrassed because I'm too ill to use  
what skills I had in that area, or to acquire new ones. However, i  
need to remember that what I can do is also important.