[UbuntuWomen] Ubuntu Women Meeting Feb 2021

Wed Apr 21 20:36:37 UTC 2021

Hi Monica,

I’m a bit of a newbie both ways, since I only started using Ubuntu (server) around the end of 2019, and I only used Ubuntu (desktop) from August or September 2020 to this past March, at which point I installed Debian (after accidentally nerfing my Ubuntu desktop installation while trying to set up multi-boot). In some ways, the things that make Ubuntu a good server distro make it less of a good desktop distro (and vice-versa with Debian), though in other ways Ubuntu remains the more user-friendly of the two.

The main issue for me on the desktop was the extent to which Ubuntu maintains incompatible tweaks on top of GNOME, which makes it difficult to engage with upstream GNOME development. And, again, Ubuntu’s development process seems to be much more cloistered than Debian’s or GNOME’s. The two are all things considered extremely similar aside from this, especially due to the fact that Ubuntu is closely related to Debian, much like Elementary is closely related to Ubuntu.

Best,
Elsie

> On Apr 21, 2021, at 3:52 PM, Monica Ayhens-Madon <mayhens at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Elsie, thanks for the honesty, and it's good to know why people have left a community. People change and projects change, and it's okay to find something that's a better fit. But I also wanted to thank you for the Matrix room advice, because one of the reasons I'd love to have this group active again is to connect to other women's groups at Fedora and GNOME - and help make the community more welcoming for women who haven't yet joined. I'll answer you more in a reply to that e-mail specifically!
> 
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 3:04 PM Elsie Hupp <canonical at elsiehupp.com> wrote:
> Not to be too gauche, but Canonical’s increasingly corporate orientation is a big part of why I’ve been more interested in Debian (for desktop) lately. Debian has a public-facing Gitlab. Canonical has Launchpad, which is about as dead as this mailing list.
> 
> (The other thing is I’m interested in contributing to GNOME, and Debian is much closer to a vanilla GNOME environment, so it’s more suitable to that sort of work.)
> 
> When I installed Debian on my Linux desktop I did set up a large number of boot partitions, so I will probably reinstall Ubuntu at some point. (I still use Ubuntu for server, though.)
> 
> > On Apr 20, 2021, at 6:57 AM, Tricia Bowen <tricia.bowen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > It’s been awhile since I’ve used Ubuntu. My kids are all grown and the ZaReason box has been sitting in the garage collecting dust. Willing to participate in the revival.
> > —Tricia
> > 
> >> On Apr 19, 2021, at 11:15 PM, Ruby Alesi <ruby.alesi87 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I'd be totally interested if this group got revived. 
> >> 
> >> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 8:14 PM Monica Ayhens-Madon <mayhens at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> A Mani (and anyone still on here!)
> >> 
> >> Last year when I joined and realized the group had gone inactive, it was disappointing. I was really excited about joining and connecting with other women in open source and in the Ubuntu project. So as a community and an Ubuntu member, I would be more than interested in finding a way to revive this group!
> >> 
> >> (Obligatory disclosure that I work for Canonical as the Ubuntu Community Representative, and I'm not sure if and how that would clash with me as a community member in this case. I'll find out!)
> >> 
> >> But I think seeing who else is still here and getting the list more active is a good start - and getting people chatting about it outside the mailing list too (Discourse, Twitter, Telegram, etc.).
> >> 
> >> Monica
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 7:23 AM A. Mani <a.mani.cms at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Maybe we should revive it?
> >> 
> >> Best
> >> 
> >> A Mani
> >> 
> >> Prof.Dr.(Miss) A Mani
> >> ASL, AMS, ISRS, CLC, CMS, MTA
> >> Senior Member, International Rough Set Society
> >> Research Scientist, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
> >> Formerly HBCSE, TIFR, CU.
> >> Homepage: https://www.logicamani.in
> >> Blog: https://logicamani.blogspot.in/
> >> Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mani-A
> >> sip:girlprofessor at ekiga.net
> >> Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
> >> 
> >> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 11:35 PM Luna Jernberg <droidbittin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Seems to be still cancelled, maybe someone should remove it from the Fridge calendar
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 7:56 PM Luna Jernberg <droidbittin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Any IRC meeting today or still cancelled?
> >> >>
> >> >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 7:00 PM Luna Jernberg <droidbittin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Nope cancelled today too
> >> >>>
> >> >>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 6:40 PM Luna Jernberg <droidbittin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Hello i think the ubuntu Women meeting is still not a thing anymore?
> >> >
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> >> > Ubuntu-Women mailing list
> >> > Ubuntu-Women at lists.ubuntu.com
> >> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-women
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> >> Ubuntu-Women mailing list
> >> Ubuntu-Women at lists.ubuntu.com
> >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-women
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> >> Ubuntu-Women mailing list
> >> Ubuntu-Women at lists.ubuntu.com
> >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-women
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> >> Ubuntu-Women mailing list
> >> Ubuntu-Women at lists.ubuntu.com
> >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-women
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> > Ubuntu-Women mailing list
> > Ubuntu-Women at lists.ubuntu.com
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-women
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> Ubuntu-Women mailing list
> Ubuntu-Women at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-women
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> Ubuntu-Women mailing list
> Ubuntu-Women at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-women