[UbuntuWomen] New member introduction (Link heavy!)

[Svetlana Belkin]

Sorry for the link heavy reply!

On 09/28/2013 05:02 PM, Anna Baas wrote:
> As I'm new to the list, I thought I'd introduce myself!

Hey there!  Welcome to Ubuntu-Women team/mailing-list! Nice to meet you,
Anna. I'm Svetlana, one of the members.

> I'm Anna, born and bred in the Netherlands, and work there as a junior
> software engineer (Java, js, SQL, bash) on software that is free in
> absolutely NO sense of the word.

That's most of the software in the world's companies, though people
don't really think about that many things do run Linux based on this
video[1].

> To add insult to injury, I don't even use Ubuntu myself! But I recently
> installed it on my partner's new laptop, and my very non-technical dad
> has been happily running it for a couple of years now (which, to me,
> makes him the coolest pensioner since ever). 

You could always dual-boot or run it on Virtual-Box.

> I've had such a positive experience with the community while
> tech-supporting the men in my life that I am looking around for ways to
> give back. I'm very much still in the exploratory phase, but maybe
> someone here can use a noob to do some legwork :)

It seems that you are like me[2], where I didn't know know how to get
involved.  At the moment, we are working on to improve the GetInvolved
wiki page[3].  This page is the project's page[4]. Most of the ideas,
from other members, are from the last two months meetings [5,6] and I
have echoed what I have send (to a point) of what was said on the
mail-list [7].  We have a meeting on October 8 at 18:00 UTC [8] and we
are planning to talk about the ideas that we have already and to gain
new ones, if needed. If you can't make it and you have some comments
about the project plan, you can always say something on the mailing-list.

> Looking forward to getting to know you,

I hope you enjoy your time with us,
Svetlana Belkin

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVpbFMhOAwE
[2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-women/2013-July/003773.html
[3] http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/GetInvolved
[4] http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/GIWPI
[5] http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/20130813
[6] http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/20130910
[7] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2172587
[8] http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/October2013/Agenda
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