Re: Introduction - Hi!

2015-02-22 Thread Laura Arjona Reina
Hi Christi, and welcome! El 22/02/15 a las 06:12, Christi Wilson escribió: > Hi, > > My name is Christi and I am a new to Linux (only been using it for a > little over a month) and new to Debian. I chose Debian for my distro as > I was very impressed with the Social Contract and what the communit

Re: Introduction - Hi!

2015-02-21 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 09:12:35PM -0800, Christi Wilson wrote: > My name is Christi and I am a new to Linux (only been using it for a > little over a month) and new to Debian. I chose Debian for my distro > as I was very impressed with the Social Contract and what the > community strives for as

Re: introduction

2013-09-03 Thread Kinga Bernadett Böszörményi
Hi Diane! On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Diane Trout wrote: > One of the easiest places I found to start was updating packages I was using > that were out of date. > > You can get a lot information about a package at: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/common/index.html > > Theres a list of work-n

Re: introduction

2013-09-03 Thread Kinga Bernadett Böszörményi
Hi Lesley! On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:41 AM, lesleyb wrote: > I have no idea whether you know about these things but the Debian women group > do have an irc channel, #debian-women, on irc.debian.org. Please visit and > say > hi there too. > > You can find out what we're up to there; also worth c

Re: introduction

2013-09-03 Thread Kinga Bernadett Böszörményi
Hi Miry! On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > There's many things to do and many places to help, but it's usually not > obvious from start. I'd suggest that maybe you could do a brief introduction > of what things you might like, the kind of things you might have fun doing, > or

Re: introduction

2013-09-03 Thread Diane Trout
Welcome One of the easiest places I found to start was updating packages I was using that were out of date. You can get a lot information about a package at: http://packages.qa.debian.org/common/index.html Theres a list of work-needed-prospective-packages at http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/

Re: introduction

2013-09-03 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:36:05PM +0200, Kinga Bernadett Böszörményi wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Took me a while to start here. Today is school begin day in my country > and decided to begin my contribution here. But I still don't know how > may I help. I've some programming knowledge, can package

Re: introduction

2013-09-02 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2013/9/2 Kinga Bernadett Böszörményi > Hi everyone, > Hi Kinga! Took me a while to start here. Today is school begin day in my country > and decided to begin my contribution here. But I still don't know how > may I help. I've some programming knowledge, can package small > programs. May try to

Re: Introduction to GNU/Linux for girls

2011-05-11 Thread Christine Spang
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:24:45PM +0200, Fernanda G Weiden wrote: > So if you would like to do this, I would then focus on Debian stuff, > talk about the existence of this group, and add more info about how to > get involved to the materials. This sounds great to me. cheers, Christine -- To U

Re: Introduction to GNU/Linux for girls

2011-05-11 Thread Meike Reichle
Hi Fernanda Fernanda G Weiden @ 10.05.2011 17:24: Hi people, I'm planning to give classes of introduction to systems administration gratis for girls at a conference in Brazil (FISL), and I would like to know whether you would like me to translate information about this activity and also brand it

Re: Introduction to GNU/Linux for girls

2011-05-10 Thread Fernanda G Weiden
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > Just wondering: girls or women? What about we make it "female" so there's no age issue? :-) There was no intention in the choice of term, it was just my non-native-speaker-writing-fast-without-thinking issue... -- Free Software Foundat

Re: Introduction to GNU/Linux for girls

2011-05-10 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Fernanda G Weiden wrote: > Hi people, > I'm planning to give classes of introduction to systems administration > gratis for girls at a conference in Brazil (FISL), and I would like to > know whether you would like me to translate information about this > activity

Re: Introduction and Debian Women Mentoring Programme

2009-07-28 Thread Lesley Binks
2009/7/28 Lesley Binks : > 2009/7/28 Rosellyne Thompson : >> Hi everyone, >> >> My name is Rosellyne Thompson and I am 23 years old. I've been using >> Debian since 2000 (Potato!) and I've decided to delurk and become more >> involved with the Debian project, primarily to give something back and >>

Re: Introduction and Debian Women Mentoring Programme

2009-07-28 Thread Lesley Binks
2009/7/28 Rosellyne Thompson : > Hi everyone, > > My name is Rosellyne Thompson and I am 23 years old. I've been using > Debian since 2000 (Potato!) and I've decided to delurk and become more > involved with the Debian project, primarily to give something back and > become part of the community, bu

Re: Introduction and Debian Women Mentoring Programme

2009-07-28 Thread Runa Sandvik
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Rosellyne Thompson wrote: > Hi everyone, Hi and welcome :) > Areas I would be interested in are: Perl, beginner packaging, writing > bug reports, writing documentation, working on Debian websites/lists, > solving bugs and submitting patches, organising UK events (

Re: Introduction

2008-12-28 Thread Amaya
Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > You've forgotten Erinn (helix) Clark. :) And Marga, and Ana, and Biella, and Marcela, and alphascorpii, in no particular order, and only to mention the women. > Erinn's talk in DebConf4 was very inpirational. This is all there is, and worth watching too: http://

Re: Introduction

2008-12-28 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/12/28 Sam Kuper : > 2008/12/28 Ben Armstrong : >> Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: >>> Erinn's talk in DebConf4 was very inpirational. >> >> [...] >> Now you have piqued my curiosity. Was that talk >> recorded and put online? I would like to hear it. Linuxchix seems to suggest that the prese

Re: Introduction

2008-12-28 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/12/28 Ben Armstrong : > Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: >> Erinn's talk in DebConf4 was very inpirational. > > [...] > Now you have piqued my curiosity. Was that talk > recorded and put online? I would like to hear it. Ditto.

Re: Introduction

2008-12-28 Thread Ariannah J. Armstrong
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Ben Armstrong >As they mature, my girls > will grow up to understand that not everyone will agree with them, and > some of them are going to say hurtful and even bigoted things to them. They encountered this recently, during the holidays from some of our neighbour

Re: Introduction

2008-12-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:27:16 +1100 Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > You've forgotten Erinn (helix) Clark. :) > > Erinn and Amaya (together with the women who attended DebConf4 in Porto > Alegre) started Debian Women in 2004. > > Erinn's talk in DebConf4 was very inpirational. No slight intended

Re: Introduction

2008-12-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:46:59 +0100 "Miriam Ruiz" wrote: > I have two baby nieces now and I would really > like to participate in whichever activities they choose without having > any extra difficulties for being female. I would really want them to > be able to join Debian sometime, and do stuff he

Re: Introduction

2008-12-28 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/12/28 Ariannah J. Armstrong : > Hi! I thought since Ben posted an introduction, I will too :) > > I am Ariannah, and I'm married to Ben. Debian has been in our family > for a long time, and our children are being raised on it as a > home-educated family. I admire all the work that Ben has d

Re: Introduction

2008-12-28 Thread Ariannah J. Armstrong
Hi! I thought since Ben posted an introduction, I will too :) I am Ariannah, and I'm married to Ben. Debian has been in our family for a long time, and our children are being raised on it as a home-educated family. I admire all the work that Ben has done with it over the years. In my spare ti

Re: Introduction

2008-12-27 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:00:03PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote: >In particular, thanks Amaya and Miriam. You've forgotten Erinn (helix) Clark. :) Erinn and Amaya (together with the women who attended DebConf4 in Porto Alegre) started Debian Women in 2004. Erinn's talk in DebConf4 was very inpirat

Re: Introduction

2008-12-27 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/12/28 Ben Armstrong : > Hi, Hi Ben!! > For years my goal has been to make Debian desirable for my own kids who > now number four girls and one boy, and for families everywhere. Now > that my boy and half of my girls are teens, I would like to think all > of them could follow in their father

Re: Introduction

2007-05-29 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Alexander Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi! > > * Anne S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070528 16:40]: > > > Because I don't have skills to build websites or programming, yet. I > > think that participate to translation- or documentation project would be > > easier way to me to contribute. > >

Re: Introduction

2007-05-29 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Anne S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070528 16:40]: > Because I don't have skills to build websites or programming, yet. I > think that participate to translation- or documentation project would be > easier way to me to contribute. Than http://www.debian.org/international/l10n/ddtp might be intere

Re: Introduction

2007-05-28 Thread Christian Perrier
> You're really welcome to participate, I'm pretty sure that the teams dealing > with documentation and translation will be really glad to count with your > help :) Or, if you ever become interested in any other part of Debian, or The Finnish team certainly definitely would and, as all Finnish p

Re: Introduction

2007-05-28 Thread Runa Agate Sandvik
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 05:40:32PM +0300, Anne S wrote: > I have reading this mailing list few weeks now and I think that I > should introduce my self :) Hi! :) > Because I don't have skills to build websites or programming, yet. I > think that participate to translation- or documentation proje

Re: Introduction

2007-05-28 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2007/5/28, Anne S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Greetings, Hi! :) I have reading this mailing list few weeks now and I think that I should introduce my self :) Welcome on board!! My name is Anne Sorsa, I live in Finland (Northern Karelia). My passion are computers, alternative operation syste

Re: Debian gathering in mid-May? (Was: Re: Introduction)

2005-05-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:49:45PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Michelle Klein-Hass wrote: > > OK, please, folks...I need details! I actually *do* live in LA and want > > to attend this gathering. > > Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is the person to talk to, who is > orga

Re: Debian gathering in mid-May? (Was: Re: Introduction)

2005-05-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Michelle Klein-Hass wrote: > On 4/23/05, Geordie Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cere Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [23 Apr 2005 12:04 -0700]: > > > There is supposed to be some sort of Los Angeles Debian > > > gathering (foodconf as it has apparently come to be called) in > >

Re: Debian gathering in mid-May? (Was: Re: Introduction)

2005-05-11 Thread C.M. Connelly
"MKH" == Michelle Klein-Hass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "CD" == Cere Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CD> There is supposed to be some sort of Los Angeles Debian CD> gathering (foodconf as it has apparently come to be CD> called) in mid May. Figured it would be good as many CD> west coast Nort

Re: Introduction

2005-04-24 Thread Avery Ke
Cere Davis wrote: 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. Well, actually I'm "temporarily" in North Carolina, but my heart is still in Seattle. Cere's the

Re: Debian gathering in mid-May? (Was: Re: Introduction)

2005-04-24 Thread Cere Davis
Well, I may have the date wrong or something but I heard this from the debian-women irc channel. Seems hard to believe that something like this is happening when no one is clarifying it one way or another. -Cere On 4/24/05, Michelle Klein-Hass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/23/05, Geordie Bir

Debian gathering in mid-May? (Was: Re: Introduction)

2005-04-24 Thread Michelle Klein-Hass
On 4/23/05, Geordie Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cere Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [23 Apr 2005 12:04 -0700]: > > 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 N

Re: Introduction

2005-04-23 Thread Geordie Birch
Cere Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [23 Apr 2005 12:04 -0700]: Hi Cere, enjoying the beautiful day? > 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. I'm sitting h

Re: Introduction

2005-04-23 Thread Cere Davis
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 Was

Re: Introduction

2005-02-28 Thread Helen Faulkner
Hi Meike and everyone, Thanks for your introduction, Meike. It's nice to learn something about the different people who are subscribed to this list. So far I've only dealt with debian as a user. I've got it running on one of my laptops and like it a lot. Guess I might even call it my favorite

Re: Introduction

2004-07-25 Thread Erinn Clark
* stefani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:07:25 19:07 -0700]: > another unlurk here. I subscribed last week, after hearing mako and > micah and matt tell me of this list. that was after i mentioned to them > how few women seemed to have voted in the recent plebiscite on the sarge > release. Welcom

Re: Introduction

2004-07-24 Thread Amaya
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