I am right now, staying at home and preparing for civil service examination that barely include any technical part.Sometime I flip over my old algorithm books and try to solve problems.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Amanda Babcock Furrow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alb@quandary.org" target="_blank">alb@quandary.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 08:12:01PM -0500, Jess wrote:<br>
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> Anyway, I'm currently staying at home with my almost one year old, and<br>
> while I love taking care of the kiddo, the gentle art of domesticity, etc.,<br>
> I must sadly report that I feel the technical part of my brain slowly<br>
> turning to mush.<br>
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</div>I so know what you mean! I'm typing this around a 1.5-year-old who just<br>
crawled into my lap for a nurse.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I've never been "involved" in the open source community<br>
> beyond using some of the software that it produces, but I might like to<br>
> change that, so that's why I signed up to this list! :) I'd love to hear<br>
> what other SAHM's are doing to stay sharp while not working, too.<br>
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</div>I was a network engineer, dealing with customer routing requirements<br>
and programming Ciscos. I've been stay-at-home for 7 years now, and I<br>
just started volunteering as a sysadmin for the Organization for Transformative<br>
Works. Just having that bit of an identity other than "mom" is wonderful.<br>
<br>
It's unlike most free software projects, but more like Dreamwidth Studios,<br>
in that the environment is majority-female and, at least for the OTW but<br>
likely Dreamwidth as well, strongly fannish. Both organizations use<br>
volunteer Ruby coders to build their backends. I'd meant to volunteer<br>
as a coder but they needed sysadmins more!<br>
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Amanda<br>
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