Hello group, I joined the Ubuntu Women group a year or so ago. I've yet to be polite and introduce myself. I'll be doing that now... I'm a web developer for a commercial printer & I occasionally freelance. I never ever would have thought I had a future in tech. I learned simple commands in BASIC when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade (I was no good at it). We were one of the few schools in the area that had a computer lab filled with new Apple IIs. Since then I grew up & got married. I was really excited when I first read about this free operating system called Linux (in the early 2000s). I've been following the Ubuntu project since I first read about it. I've ordered a stack of live CDs. I've installed a few dual boot systems and even busted a hard drive or two whilst learning. Our children can easily use Windows or Linux. They love the Tux games. Racing & Paint were favorites for a long time. During my early years of marriage I was interested in learning some kind of computer programming but knew only of Visual Basic but training was just too expensive. I eventually discovered Open Source Software (early 2000s again). It gave me the opportunity to use & learn for free. I've wanted to give back to the community ever since. I currently use a lot of Open Source software. Some of my favorites are firefox, filezilla, wordpress, php & mysql, gnu gimp, open <a href="http://office.org">office.org</a> & xampp. Thanks for the opportunity! Michelle <a href="http://tinym.com">http://tinym.com</a> <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Etinym">https://launchpad.net/~tinym </a>