Re: [gnome-women] Round of introductions

[Susana Pereira <susana pereira gmail com>]

Hi everyone,

I know I'm a bit late for the round of introductions but I'll still do mine.

My name is Susana Pereira, I'm from Portugal and I work as a software engineer.

I got introduced to Unix in 2001, but times were a bit difficult. I
didn't know much about Unix and people were always playing tricks on
me (sending funny messages via talk, filling my .login with huge
echos, writing poems in my .rhosts, you know, the usual). I was
determined to learn more, even if it was just enough to make it stop,
so I decided to install linux on my computer to play with it and learn
more. I fell in love with FLOSS ever since. :)

I started contributing to GNOME in 2006 as a member of the bugsquad,
sometimes I try to fix the bugs I report, and I recently joined the
membership committee. I think the GNOME community is great, very nice
and welcoming. It's great to participate in the DE I use every day and
to talk to people who know so much about things which I have an
interest on.

I think the outreach program is a great idea. Unfortunately, I was
unable to attend the recent IRC meeting but I look forward to reading
the minutes.

Cheers,

Susana




On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya
<marinaz redhat com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The broader free software community has restarted the discussion about women participation in open source by a series of interviews in the ROSE Blog [1], plans to host a women in free software mini-summit [2], and approaching the GNOME project about running another women outreach program [3].
>
> Running another women outreach program is a very concrete way of getting more women contributors, and I'd like to ask you to review the current ideas for the program on the wiki and share any feedback you have.
>
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram
>
> This also sounds like a great time for re-vitalizing the Women in GNOME community. So I would like to propose we do a round of introductions. The first bullet point on the GnomeWomen wiki page is "providing role models by increasing the visibility of active women in GNOME" and I think it is a particularly effective way of attracting new contributors. By sharing what we love about our involvement in GNOME, we can show that it really is a women-friendly environment and serve as a starting point of contact for women who want to get involved.
>
> Finally, please join the Women in GNOME group I created on Facebook:
>
> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118943919669
>
> As for my introduction, I work as a software developer on the GNOME Shell project [4] at Red Hat. Working on the GNOME Shell is particularly exciting because it is the next generation of the GNOME desktop or GNOME 3. I get to code many parts of the desktop interface, weigh in on the design decisions, and make sure that our project is friendly to new contributors by updating the wiki and offering answers to anything I know about on IRC. Because GNOME Shell is a community project, I get to work with people from Red Hat and with anyone from the GNOME community who decides to contribute. Everyone is top-notch and motivated, and while people have strong opinions, they are generally polite. I have recently started blogging [5], and hope to keep my blog updated with the GNOME Shell news and posts that will encourage women to get involved in GNOME.
>
> Now it's your turn :)!
>
> Marina
>
> [1] http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/ROSE-Blog-Rikki-s-Open-Source-Exchange
> [2] http://www.fsf.org/news/summit-on-women-in-free-software
> [3] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram
> [4] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell
> [5] http://blogs.gnome.org/marina
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