Greetings, Ubuntu Women: I am a rogue male who has strayed into your camp, but I'm well-behaved, and I clean up after myself. I am 36, and I am a project manager on a mathematics web publishing project that provides interactive math tutorials to college undergrads. I have been in education for many years. I was an Apple loyalist from the first Macintosh, but I was always sympathetic politically to the FOSS movement, and was secretly ashamed to be using a proprietary OS. When OS X came out, I learned UNIX from its terminal, and grew fat and happy on the Fink software ported from Debian. I liked GNOME better than Aqua, so I ran GNOME as my desktop environment instead. One morning I woke up and realized that I was paying Apple to run a FreeBSD/NetBSD hybrid with a Mach microkernel, and I downloaded Ubuntu 4.10 that afternoon, bought a Pentium III from the classifieds for $50, and I've never looked back. I have Dapper on my desktop/server, Edgy on my laptop, and various other FOSS OS's running on the five or six cast-off computers I have found. I live in Somerville, MA, USA. I dropped out of a mathematics PhD program, and I am in debt up to my eyeballs. I live with a 200 lb. (90 kg.) mastiff named Hagrid, who is like a son to me. I am committed to sharing Ubuntu with all of the women in my life, and encouraging them to make it theirs. It is theirs, far more so than any hidden-code system is. As a mathematics teacher, I know that women get discouraged, partly by self-doubt, but often by chauvinistic societal assumptions about their capacity as scientists and technical people. Whatever I can do to encourage women to compute autonomously, I will be happy to contribute to your group, and to society at large. Thank you, Jeremy.