[UbuntuWomen] Introduction: Jeremy Gross

[Ubuntu Ready]

Greetings, Ubuntu Women:

I am a rogue male who has strayed into your camp, but I'm well-behaved, and
I clean up after myself. I am 36, and I am a project manager on a
mathematics web publishing project that provides interactive math tutorials
to college undergrads. I have been in education for many years. I was an
Apple loyalist from the first Macintosh, but I was always sympathetic
politically to the FOSS movement, and was secretly ashamed to be using a
proprietary OS. When OS X came out, I learned UNIX from its terminal, and
grew fat and happy on the Fink software ported from Debian. I liked GNOME
better than Aqua, so I ran GNOME as my desktop environment instead. One
morning I woke up and realized that I was paying Apple to run a
FreeBSD/NetBSD hybrid with a Mach microkernel, and I downloaded Ubuntu
4.10that afternoon, bought a Pentium III from the classifieds for $50,
and I've
never looked back. I have Dapper on my desktop/server, Edgy on my laptop,
and various other FOSS OS's running on the five or six cast-off computers I
have found.

I live in Somerville, MA, USA. I dropped out of a mathematics PhD program,
and I am in debt up to my eyeballs. I live with a 200 lb. (90 kg.) mastiff
named Hagrid, who is like a son to me.

I am committed to sharing Ubuntu with all of the women in my life, and
encouraging them to make it theirs. It is theirs, far more so than any
hidden-code system is. As a mathematics teacher, I know that women get
discouraged, partly by self-doubt, but often by chauvinistic societal
assumptions about their capacity as scientists and technical people.
Whatever I can do to encourage women to compute autonomously, I will be
happy to contribute to your group, and to society at large.

Thank you,

Jeremy.
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