Hi Linda Welcome to Debian!
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:26:42PM +0200, l. m. wirthmann wrote: > this discussion seems to be a nice opportunity to say hello and ask for > help... so, well - hi. > > i subscribed to the mailinglist because i was curious about the issues > female developers might talk/ debate about and get myself a clearer > impression of it all, but apparently it didn't work out. > > therefore it's probably the best tactic to just speak up and ask > directly... > > i'm not much of a programmer. i recently started to translate some docs > (into german) for kde (only because of a friend who does that and who > helps me with all my stupid questions) and enjoy it so far, but would > rather get involved with debian itself. yes, i also subscribed to the > german translator list for debian, but i'm still far too shy to > introduce myself there and ask for guidance. > > i am willing and able to learn almost everything (as i also have a lot > of free time..) but i don't know where to start and whom to speak with > and in which ways i can contribute, so i'd love to be given any piece of > advice. (yeah, i know, i could just read the websites to gather > information, but i feel more comfortable speaking directly to people. > especially women. it's stupid and a prejudice, but i'm still afraid of > being laughed at [by men] for asking "dumb" questions and not knowing > everything by myself.) As we say in german: Es gibt keine dummen Fragen, nur dumme Antworten! (There are no dumb questions only silly answers.) But I can perfectly understand your feelings. The debian-women mailinglist was among other reasons created to avoid this. I'm quite sure nobody will laugh at your questions here. > > so it seems this list is not yet totally unnecessary, > at least not for me. > > so if anyone has any idea, please let me know. Some years ago when Debian Women started there was a mentoring project. I myself was also active as a mentor for a short time. While there was no shortage of people willing to act as mentors there were only few mentees. But I think the project was a really great idea. Perhaps we could try again and reactivate the project. What do others think about this? I would be still interested to act as a mentor. Also for you linda, if you are interested in this. Greetings, Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
