Hi Geordie, I don't think I have formally written into this list yet but I especially like to say hello to folks that are somewhat in close Geographic proximity to my hometown, Seattle. There is at least one other debian-women member that I know of here in Seattle that also works at the U of Washington named Avery. I have heard that there are a couple of d-w people in Portland also.
There is supposed to be some sort of Los Angeles Debian gathering (foodconf as it has apparently come to be called) in mid May. Figured it would be good as many west coast North American to know about it as possible. -cere On 4/22/05, Geordie Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. My name is Geordie Birch. I live in Vancouver Canada. > > I have been a user of Debian since July 1999. In the past I have been > involved in local projects that encouraged the use of computers and > networks by people who might not otherwise have access. In 2000 we set > up a computer lab running KDE under Debian. While open to the public, > its presence was advertised only within local community activist circles. > Many women made use of the computer lab. Also I am and have been > involved in various projects providing network services to community > activist groups. These projects run Debian on their servers, and > include a significant number of women among their admins. > > I would like to see more women - especially non-geek women - using > Debian as it is in my opinion an excellent desktop platform. > Unfortunately all of the Debian resources prior to D-W are somewhat > alienating to non-geeks in general and, i would imagine, non-geek > women in particular. > > The D-W community is valuable to me for two reasons: to facilitate my > presentation of Debian as a realisic option for women interested in > running a Linux based OS; and as a technical resource to further my own > technical ability - D-W is a friendly place, lacking the macho and elite > feel of so many other technical forums. > > I subscribed to the D-W mailling list shortly after it was > established; I sit in the D-W IRC channel a lot as well. I have a non > computer job and don't have a lot of time to IRC these days although I > find the technical discussions interesting to read. > > Geordie. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Cere Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------- GPG Key: http://staff.washington.edu/cere/pubkey.asc GPG fingerprint (ID# 73FCA9E6) : F5C7 627B ECBE C735 117B 2278 9A95 4C88 73FC A9E6
