[UbuntuWomen] hi all

[Amber Graner]

Helen McCall wrote:
> Hello Rachel,
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> I'm new to this list as well, so maybe I should introduce myself.
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> I've been using Linux since 1995. I started by experimenting with the 
> first two distributions of Linux which were ygdrazil and Slackware. I 
> switched to Debian in 1996 because this gave my first really useable 
> Linux workstation. Bandwidth and speed was very poor on telephone 
> dial-ups in 1996, and so I joined John Winters and a few others in what 
> was called "The Linux Buying Consortium" (LBC) to import Linux CDs from 
> USA into Britain.
> 
> For a few years I provided help and support to Linux users on the LBC 
> discussion list. This was necessary for most users in those days because 
> installing Linux on any machine required a manual search for any 
> suitable drivers for all the bits of the hardware, followed by a long 
> and hair-raising process of many iterations of re-compiling the kernel 
> to include different versions of each driver till you arrived at 
> something that worked. This was followed by a complete manual 
> configuration of everything, by editing the config files in /etc using vi.
> 
> For a short time many years ago, I tried becoming a Debian Developer. 
> But that was in the era of the "Debian Flame Wars", and I couldn't stand 
> all the stupid, aggressive flames and bad language, so dropped out 
> quickly. I have been using Ubuntu for the last 5 years.
> 
> I used to programme in C and Perl, though I'm a bit rusty in programming 
> at present. I am slowly learning Python, because this has become one of 
> the most used languages in Linux.
> 
> I am currently one of the developers on the OpenShot Non-Linear Video 
> Editor for Linux (https://launchpad.net/openshot and 
> http://www.openshotvideo.com/ <http://www.openshotvideo.com/).>). I am 
> developing the documentation and Help Manual using Gnome Help. I am also 
> heavily involved in testing each version as it is committed to Launchpad.
> 
> I used to be a research scientist working on machine vision, developing 
> mathematical and statistical methods for automated recognition from 
> digital video images. Then I ran away to join the circus!
> 
> I am now a member of a circus troupe of aerial acrobats, and I teach 
> aerial acrobatics on trapeze, ropes and silks (corde lisse & tissus 
> lisse). We specialise in Contemporary Circus (Cirque Nouveaux), which is 
> a fusion of contemporary street theatre and improvised physical theatre 
> with acrobatics and other circus arts. Contemporary Circus tells a story!
> 
> I am also involved in producing videos of our circus troupe. There are 
> three strands to my filming projects here:
> 
> 1) Training Videos for aerial acrobatics,
>    and for our Instructor Training Programme 
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> 2) Promotional Videos
> 
> 3) Performance Videos of our artistic productions
> 
> These films are all in full HD, and all the editing, compositing, 
> processing etc is done entirely on an Ubuntu workstation using 
> OpenSource software.
> 
> Software I use for this:
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> OpenShot 	Non-Linear Video Editor
> The Gimp 	Image processing
> Inkscape 	titles, scrolling credits, transition masks etc
> Blender 	3d animation
> Audacity 	Audio editing
> NoteEdit 	Musical composition
> LilyPond 	Musical composition, rendering scores
> LaTeX 	Script writing, and other documentation
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> Best wishes, Helen McCall
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> 2009-08-14 at 05:34 +0100, Rachel Sands wrote:
>> Hi, I thought I'd introduce myself.
>>
>> i've been using ubuntu since 8.04, so okay, not a really long time :)
>> just wanted to get involved in the community a bit, so I did some
>> Googling around and I saw ubuntu-women
>> I know some HTML, CSS and PHP. Apart from that, I know how to operate
>> a linux system :)
>>
>> I'm based in the UK at the moment
>>
>> Hope I can help the community
>>
>> --
>> Rachel Sands
>> <rachel.sands.(nospam).uk at googlemail.com <mailto:uk at googlemail.com>>
>>

Welcome Helen and Rachel!

Hope you enjoy the group and the Ubuntu community as a whole!  There is 
a place and something everyone can do.:-)  If you find yourself asking 
"what can I do?"  Hop in the ubuntu-women channel and ask the group, 
there are lots of ways to participate in the community and various teams 
to get involved with regardless if you been doing this a while or you 
started yesterday.

Again welcome!

-- 
Amber Graner (akgraner in IRC)
akgraner at ubuntu.com