On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 12:57:08PM -0700 or thereabouts, Justine Cubbage tenZeldam
wrote:
> Who, if any woman, has inspired you to be a Linux Chik? I'm trying
> to develop a mentoring program for young women to meet & be inspired
> by female high tech "success stories". Know any?
> Thanks!
I am not a high tech success story, although I am someone who is
now comfortable taking my computer apart and adding/removing cards
and memory, and I started out ten years ago absolutely terrified
of touching things in case they broke and I had to pay for the
replacing of them. (Really!)
They still break, but now I know that it's not -my- fault if the
printer driver sees a ^S and stops the printer queue. (This wasn't
one of mine: a friend (male) did that many years ago. It was one
of several incidents which taught me that actually the world didn't
fall in and you weren't automatically presented with a £50000 bill
for a new university computer as a result...)
Where I find hi-tech success stories: here, largely. It was so
fabulous to find a place where other women were, who were interested
in the same things, and the huge range of knowledge and interests
was good too: from people who didn't care what happened inside but
wanted to be able to change a default or two, to people who could
cheerfully argue the usefulness or not of different compilers and
compiler flags.
I suppose systers is probably full of "success stories", in that
all I know of it is that it's a group for women in IT (sysadmins
in particular?) but I don't know a lot about it. I had heard of
it some years ago, but it seemed that you actually had to work in
the industry to join it, and I didn't, and have no qualifications
remotely related to it. So I thought it was a bit above my sort
of level :) Linuxchix seems to fit a different niche.
Telsa
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