new member presentation

2008-11-03 Thread Anne Ghisla Insubriae
hi all! after reading Linda's presentation and the following thread, I agree with you about keeping this list alive. My Linux story started three years ago at university thanks to a friend, Clara, who installed Debian on my laptop. Then I dropped it for Ubuntu, because I felt too dummy. Now I

Re: new member presentation

2008-11-03 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/11/3 Anne Ghisla Insubriae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hi all! Hi Anne! :) > after reading Linda's presentation and the following thread, I agree with > you about keeping this list alive. Yup, I agree that there are still a lot of things to be done. The questions might be when, and especially ho

Re: new member presentation

2008-11-03 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Miriam Ruiz schrieb: >> As you point out, computer stuff is not men's job. Anyway, men look with >> some kind of fear at girls who can tame computers :) > [..] Not all the men are like that, anyway. Thanks for pointing that out ;) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: new member presentation

2008-11-03 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/11/3 Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > > Miriam Ruiz schrieb: > >>> As you point out, computer stuff is not men's job. Anyway, men look with >>> some kind of fear at girls who can tame computers :) >> [..] Not all the men are like that, anyway. > > Thanks for pointing that

Re: new member presentation

2008-11-03 Thread Lesley Binks
2008/11/3 Anne Ghisla Insubriae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hi all! > > after reading Linda's presentation and the following thread, I agree with > you about keeping this list alive. > My Linux story started three years ago at university thanks to a friend, > Clara, who installed Debian on my laptop. Th

Re: new member presentation

2008-11-03 Thread Anne Ghisla
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Miriam Ruiz schrieb: > >>> As you point out, computer stuff is not men's job. Anyway, men look with >>> some kind of fear at girls who can tame computers :) >> [..] Not all the men are like that, anyway.

Re: new member presentation

2008-11-03 Thread Helen Faulkner
Lesley Binks wrote: I think we could discuss women and their own perception of their capabilities, and the fact that society largely still encourages them to perceive themselves in such a light, etc etc. Okay some people are technophobes or just hopeless with any technology be it car, bike or com