[UbuntuWomen] New to the Mailing List, too

[Elizabeth Bevilacqua]

Welcome Na'Tosha!

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Na'Tosha Bard <natosha at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a
> B.S. in Computer Science and I am employed full-time as a Software Engineer
> here in Florida.

Are you at all involved with the Florida Ubuntu Team?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FloridaTeam

I'm not sure how active they are, but local teams can be pretty fun if
you have the time. Since I also do a fair amount of development work
at work I tend to like to unwind with a bit of community stuff in
addition to the Debian package maintaining I do.

> I started toying with Debian off and on many years ago and started using it
> regularly with the release of Potato back in ?2000?.  I tried out many
> distributions of Linux, including Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, Gentoo, Sorcerer,
> and eventually came back to Debian a few years ago.  I tried out Ubuntu
> (specifically XUbuntu) sometime in early 2007 and haven't looked back
> since.

Nice :) I started with Debian shortly after you, with Woody, the
release that followed Potato in 2002. I also use Xubuntu on my primary
workstation (have loved xfce for years, even if Gnome has grown on me
a bit lately since using it on my laptop).

> I use Fedora as my primary operating system at work, but will be
> switching to Ubuntu as soon as my new computer comes in and I can
> re-install. I absolutely apt as my update method and I love the stability
> Ubuntu gives me and the friendliness of the community.  Alas, my husband
> still uses Debian, despite my failed attempts to convert him :-)

Be glad it's just Debian, mine uses Gentoo! *grin*

> I've contributed small bits to open source projects here and there, but I am
> looking for a fun way I can give back to the Free Software Community, and
> particuarly the Ubuntu community that I've gotten so much out of.  And of
> course I joined this mailing list in hopes of doing just that (and meeting
> some cool people in the process).

As I mentioned in a reply to Sara just a few minutes ago, the Bug
Squad is a great place to start.

If that's not for you, there is an overview of contributing here:

http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate

And a very extensive wiki page with all kinds of involvement avenues here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributeToUbuntu

Cheers,

-- 
Elizabeth Bevilacqua // Lyz // pleia2
http://www.princessleia.com