Re: intro

[Helen Faulkner <helen_ml_faulkner@yahoo.co.uk>]

Hi Fabienne, all,

It's great when new people introduce themselves to the list.  It gives
the rest of us a better idea of who is out there, and of course it is
nice to feel appreciated :)

Fabienne S wrote:
> hi debian women list,
> 
>      my name's fabienne and i'm a francoamerican
> living in paris, france.  i've been subscribed to the
> list since i saw helen faulkner speak at FOSDEM (the
> free and open source developers' european meeting in
> brussels) about a month ago.  i work at ircam, a

I have to stop you there and admit that I did not go to FOSDEM.  So
unless there is another Helen Faulkner, I suspect you are mixing me up
with Hanna Wallach, who did go to FOSDEM and spoke there.  But it's not
problem - I am happy to be mistaken for Hanna any day :)

> french research institute for audio and acoustics
> technology.  at work i design code destined for winxp
> and mac os x but at home my towers run debian (a
> homebrew debian mixed from knoppix with realtime
> pre-emption and lots of audio hardware for
> multichannel audio).

This sounds interesting.  Why did you become interested in Debian to
start with?

> i'm one of the only women at ircam working in tech. 
> among my geek friends we aren't very numerous either. 
> i've been to security cons, open source cons, and
> generally i get mis-introduced as someone's wife.

Getting mistaken for someone's partner (ie not there in your own right)
is entirely frustrating, and I would guess that you are not the only one
reading this who has that experience.

> i haven't hung out on your irc chan because i'm
> working some crazy hours [many w/out a net
> connection!], but i do appreciate all the work the d-w
> group has done in the last year to create something
> positive for both women and men.  the lovely thing is
> how diverse the representative countries are in the
> debian project and i love how that is reflected in d-w
> as well.  keep up the great work and i know that some
> day i will have a couple of hours to dedicate to
> helping out.

Well, new helpers are always welcome :)  I hope that you do find the
time and inclination to become more active someday, because it's fun and
most people seem to get a lot out of their involvement in Debian and
Debian Women.

Helen.