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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
