<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi folks,<DIV> I'm beginning my journey into the Ubuntu community and just wanted to say hello and see who here. I've been digging through the wikis, forums and mailing lists and , geez, is there ever alot of information to try to sift through! I think I'm quickly reaching information overload but that is a good thing. I don't know exactly why but ever since I started learning about Ubuntu and the community growing around, something just told me, it was going to be a very good thing. I'm a pretty experienced computer user (high end multimedia developer on mostly Mac, PCs when forced at work) but gnu/linux and the Ubuntu distro were something totally new to me. I consider myself a good test case for winning over more converts and trying out new things. Anyways, since I never do anything half way, I'm making plans to attend the upcoming Paris developers summit to get a first hand look at that part of the process. If there is anything in particular you would like a report back on, please let me know and I'll try to attend that particular session. Mind you, I may not fully grasp all the technical stuff yet but I'm pretty good at telling stories and passing on information.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I do have a live journal blog of my ubuntu journey but since I'm a bit shy I haven't asked for it to be included in the planet section yet. The URL is <A href="http://ubuntugirl.livejournal.com">http://ubuntugirl.livejournal.com</A>/ </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Please feel free to give me any feedback/hints/tips/happy thoughts.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>cheers,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Dinda</DIV><DIV>aka,</DIV><DIV>Belinda A. Lopez</DIV><DIV>Houston, Texas</DIV><DIV><I>"I'm not a rocket scientist but I play with them when needed. . . "</I></DIV></BODY></HTML>