[UbuntuWomen] I am new here
Clytie Siddall
clytie at riverland.net.au
Mon May 15 05:15:44 UTC 2006
On 12/05/2006, at 11:00 PM, Catharina Bethlehem wrote:
> I am Catharina from the Netherlands.
Van harte welkom Catharina ! :)
> To be hones, I had my doubts about joining this list because I am
> not very technical with computers..
No technical proficiency required! We're just a group of women
interested positively in Ubuntu, for many and varied reasons. Variety
is good: it makes for creative and synergistic effort. :)
> I just like the principles of free software and I think Ubuntu is
> one of the best linux distro's for "normal people".
Software for people. ;)
> Me and my boyfriend just start to sell open source laptops and
> pc's. We sell to everyone that wants one but our main focus is on
> small businesses and for now we chose Ubuntu and Debian as our
> standard distro's.
Definitely a good choice. Are you finding that your clients like the OS?
>
> So my interest in open source is mainly principal but I think for
> products like Ubuntu not only the technical development is
> important but also marketing/promotion to the general public and
> maybe that is something that I can help with so that is why I've
> joined your group.
Absolutely, and your expertise is very welcome!
As a translator, I agree wholeheartedly that communication _about_
the OS is crucial to distributing it.
>
> Next to the computer selling we also run some websites but they are
> mostly in dutch. We also have international plans but later more on
> that.
Websites in many different languages are also very important. You're
helping your language group.
Please feel welcome and valued here, Catharina. :)
from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN
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