* Carla Schroder <carla@bratgrrl.com> [2004:06:21 12:38 -0700]: > I am happy to see this list, and I hope we attract lots of cool women and > girls and other female human persons. I'm a Linux geek and system > administrator. I used to freelance, maintaining mixed Linux/windoze LANs, and > migrating folks off their horrid Exchange servers onto nice sensible > Postfix/Courier/Squirrelmail setups. Now I mostly write Linux howtos, and > schlep around in my jammies a lot. And yell at us dotty cat ladies.. ;) > I would really like to write an article about women in Linux. And not some > groupie-worship thing, slobbering over Big Names, but ordinary women doing > interesting Linux things. Like Erinn Clark getting this list going. Debian > supporters of any kind- maintainers, documentation writers, bugfinders, > sysadmins, etc. Women tend to think their contributions are insignificant, > which is total poo. So anyone who knows somebody, or who wants to toot their > own horn, please let me know. I think it would make an interesting list > discussion, don't be shy. The more visibility we create, the more other women > will be encouraged. I think this is a great idea. I'd certainly be willing to be interviewed and I think I know a lot of other women that would be enthusiastic about this idea as well. Several of us did on-camera interviews in Brazil for a movie about F/OSS coming out sometime in the future.. Visibility is a funny thing - it's totally necessary but it can be quite scary for a lot of women. It's my hope (dream?) that something really positive will come out of all of this. :) -- off the chain like a rebellious guanine nucleotide http://double-helix.org
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature