Hi cheeks!! > Visibility is a funny thing - it's totally necessary > but it can be quite scary for a lot of women.
Specially for those aren't used to speak to crowds (hi Erinn!!) ;-) > And not some groupie-worship thing, > slobbering over Big Names, It's good to see that you girls want to "walk with your own legs" (as we say in Brasil), && as i'm sure that this is not a "girls only" project, ya can't count on me to make it happen. Bye!! PS: cheeks = geeks+chicks :-D --- Erinn Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > * Carla Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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 part 2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc ______________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - agora com 100MB de espaço, anti-spam e antivírus grátis! http://br.info.mail.yahoo.com/
