Well hi guys.. Talking about Women and FOSS.. I have an excellent example to
make!! :).. MY MOM!! :D... She is an ardant fan GNU/Linux :D..she uses only
GNU/Linux to surf net, listen to music, etc etc. Shes now 42 and she learnt
GNU/Linux 6 months back and shes quite good at it as a user ;).. And oh
yes...she also respects our policies and knows them quite well :)...
4 months back when the Airtel person came to connect net, my mom was
working on GNU/Linux. She said to him "One sec, lemme restart the machine to
Windows, now i am on Linux"... He was like "What the hell??!!! :-O"
expression...ha ha ha ha :D... it seems for the first time he was seeing a
House Wife use GNU/Linux ;)...
Oh yes...now u people would be asking me "WINDOWS??". Well
yes...unfortunately there is one thing that is forcing to keep that dreaded OS
on my machine :(...and that is recording from my TV tuner. I managed to get my
card running on the machine with some work arounds in GNU/Linux... But dint
find a good app to record it.. searched it helter skelter but in vain!!
actually i found a code in python which records video using Mencoder..but it
doesnt work as i expected...so working on the code now to modify it make it
work my way (Thanks to Free Software once again..without the code, i would be
screwd ;) )... Oh and yess!!! now mom is behind me everyday asking "did u fix
the recording...did u fix the recording..." he he he ;)...
Now hows that for a change to "Women in FOSS" ;)... Well its not a story..its
the truth :)..
Warm Regards,
S.Sreekanth
easylinux4u.blogspot.com
--- On Tue, 21/9/10, Siju George <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Siju George <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Women and FOSS!!
> To: "This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU, GPL Software"
> <[email protected]>
> Date: Tuesday, 21 September, 2010, 2:23 PM
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:36 PM,
> Anoop Alias <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > being a public function in a college..there would be
> many attendees.
> >
> > If you got a chance to ask them who that guy is - you
> may get answers like
> > "santa claus"
> >
>
> Quite true!
> If you came for the police conference you would have found
> a lot of
> girls who attended in the evening just because the
> Princupal of St
> Tresas was onf of the guests. There is one girl in the
> BSD-India list
> though. She was a PCBSD developer.
>
> --Siju
>
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