adding gender field on debian developer's database (from debian-devel)

2005-08-01 Thread fabienne s
hello d-w, so i'm interested in what you think here on the list about including someone's gender (i *think* that's what he meant by "sex" below) in the debian developer's database? has this guy never seen the list on debian women of developers and women in the nm queue? (see email quoted belo

Re: Debian-Women and SPI

2005-07-20 Thread fabienne s
more info about spi here: http://www.spi-inc.org/ ---fabienne Fernanda G Weiden wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:18:28 + (UTC) John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * What could we at SPI be doing to improve the situation? Inviting women to get involved? I don't know anything a

Re: install party in paris

2005-06-15 Thread fabienne s
are your friends, one can be a little more lax and take a little extra time with them to do their backups. ---fabienne Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:40:20AM +0200, fabienne s wrote: i'd say first of all make your invite less "techie threatening" th

Re: install party in paris

2005-06-15 Thread fabienne s
to burn install disks), ethernet cables, and power strips (i had all of these items, but they are useful). oh and an a hub and some sort of high speed internet... ---fabienne Penny Leach wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Fabienne, on 27/4/05 9:16 AM Fabienne S sai

Re: D-W t-shirts for Debconf5

2005-06-09 Thread fabienne s
dude i think the "premier boiler suit" takes it all. old-sk00l mechanic jumpsuits are the shit. too bad it doesn't come in dayglow orange... http://motifs.co.uk/PR31.html ---fabienne Erinn Clark wrote: * Hanna M. Wallach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:06:08 17:06 -0400]: I'm planning to g

Re: Getting involved

2005-06-09 Thread fabienne s
Frans~ Problem here is that AMD is not a subarchitecture. AFAIK a subarchitecture needs different kernel support from other subarchitectures. As an AMD processor is x86 compatible, it is not a subarchitecture but just an x86 processor from a manufacturer other than Intel.. yes i ag

Re: Getting involved

2005-06-09 Thread fabienne s
frans~ thanks for your reply. i agree that once amd64 is up on the list of choices, a newbie would be tempted to choose that over i386. some sort of clarification on each page that lists those types would be most welcome. even from the main debian.org page you can click on the installa

pixely d-w tshirt

2005-06-09 Thread fabienne s
hi d-w, i've been feeling creative lately over at pixel tees, just wanted to throw out there that i made a pixel art version of the d-w logo and posted the tshirt here: http://www.pixeltees.com/shop/fabiennez/detail/?shirt=20050609-071837-6550999199&&c=20050609-072142-4102633231&b=shop|20

Re: Getting involved

2005-06-07 Thread fabienne s
erinn~ i'm glad you brought up this documentation subject. i was poking around the top pages when suggesting debian installs to others and found the lack of mention for AMD glaring. i mean, you and i already know that i386 *implies* AMD compatability, but the download page for testi

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread fabienne s
oh and i forgot to mention i read a lot of [occasionally illegible] man pages. and math treatises. and electrical engineering handbooks. and acoustical theory textbooks. and digital audio technology specification documents. ---fabienne fabienne s wrote: i am a HUGE william gibson fan, also

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread fabienne s
i am a HUGE william gibson fan, also neal stephenson and i've been hooked on the new doctor who television series (bbc 2005 sundays). but i used to be sort of anti sci fi because it was associated (in my mind) with being overtly geeky. but then i found gibson and since then, stephenson. righ

Re: (fwd) [GCA] Eclectic Tech Carnival 2005 Invitation

2005-05-22 Thread fabienne s
i know some women that work in conjunction with this event and have heard great things about it. ---fabienne Biella Coleman wrote: quite an event from what i have heard b - Forwarded message from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: pics for the d-w talk at LinuxTalk

2005-05-22 Thread fabienne s
Hanna M. Wallach (stargirl), Miriam Ruiz (Baby), Erinn Clark (helix) \ Margarita Manterola (marga), Fabienne S (unsure about IRC nick) yeah you wouldn't know my irc nick because i haven't been hanging on the dw irc chan and have been fairly anti irc in general lately, but if

Re: Geographical map with our locations

2005-05-22 Thread fabienne s
great idea! i'm at: Lat: 48:51:34N(48.8594) Lon: 2:21:02E (2.3505) ---fabienne Miriam Ruiz wrote: Some projects, including Debian, draw geographical maps of the earth with the location of the people in it: Debian: http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.loc KDE: http://worldwide.kde.org/ Gno

Re: Women wanted as games programmers

2005-05-10 Thread fabienne s
helen, fun article, but it doesn't mention names of actual gaming companies that are looking to hire women. ubisoft comes to mind (it's here in town in paris), and i know they aren't hiring _anyone_ this year in france as programmers, let alone women. france is going to have a rougher time de

Re: install party in paris

2005-04-27 Thread Fabienne S
--- Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, indeed, I have very little chance to be > available, especially on > a Saturday (unless I want to be definitely killed by > Mrs Perrier), but > who knows? perhaps it would be useful to mention that sharing linux with mrs. perrier might be a

Re: install party in paris

2005-04-26 Thread Fabienne S
sorry didn't mean to make anyone jealous! as for paris, yes it's a lovely city but i miss home (california). that said, it's looking to be a sunny day here. happiness for your install parties around the world, fabienne [caps key often broken. i rarely SCREAM. *smile*] > >Perhaps we could raff

install party in paris

2005-04-26 Thread Fabienne S
hi d-w people, i'm throwing an install party in paris in two weeks (saturday may 14th) if any of you on this list are in town. drop me a line off the list and i'll send you an invite. ---fabienne [EMAIL PROTECTED] salut les gens de d-w, je fais une petite install party a paris en deu

Re: intro

2005-04-23 Thread Fabienne S
christian et al: > In case translation is of some interest to you, you > woul dbe very > welcomed in the debian-l10n-french mailing list, > which we usually call > "the French l10n team". Merci pour l'invite, mais je pense que mes traduction de Francais vers Anglais serai plus utiles que l'invers

Re: intro

2005-04-23 Thread Fabienne S
Helen, thanks for the reply *smile*. > 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

intro

2005-04-22 Thread Fabienne S
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 french research in