Re: [gnome-women] Round of introductions

["Izabel Cerqueira Valverde" <izabel spet br>]

Hello girls :)

My name is Izabel Valverde, I´m from
Brazil and member of Gnome foundation since 2004 and envolced with open
source since 1999.
I´m working as O&M Manager on a
educational group in Curitiba, Paraná. My professional life started
as help-desk (when I´ve learned a lot!) after programming,
managing,... but my favorite function was Test System analyst.

For Gnome envolved most of time in local marketing. I did organize some
foruns, meetings and tried to garantee Gnome on the most important
Congress in Brazil. I´m also supposed to work on membership
applications but it´s a long story for another time.

Looking back I feel pretty happy cause in 2003, 2004 Gnome around here
wasn´t a big deal... we even appear... and now we are a great
community. Last year we received a prize. And what makes me happier is the
winner was voted for people who was participating on the congress -
Latinoware (it´s on my state! :-)

I hope not be losted on
my point :(
and
please forgive always my bad english :((

I´m here ready to help, discuss and improve!

Best

Izabel
   


Em Qua, Setembro 2, 2009 2:47 pm,
Stormy Peters escreveu:
> My turn for intros ...
> 
> My name is Stormy Peters and I currently work as the Executive
Director of
> the GNOME Foundation. I do a bit of everything from
marketing to press to
> fundraising to general housekeeping and
recruiting. I originally met the
> GNOME community back in 1999 or
2000 when I was managing the CDE team at
> HP.
> They
convinced me that the open source community are great people and that
> the open source model is a very effective one. (I was greeted at my
first
> GUADEC in Copenhagen with "YOU'RE A GIRL!".)
> 
> I'm very interested in meeting women in open source and
making sure we all
> have what we need to make powerful
contributions and to recruit more
> women.
> I think by
not attracting women to our projects we are missing out a lot
>
of
> really good contributors. I think one of the best ways to
recruit women is
> to make sure the women we do have are
visible.
> 
> Stormy
> 
> 2009/8/27
Máirín Duffy <duffy redhat com>
> 
>> Hi:)
>>
>> On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 21:12
-0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote:
>> > 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
>>
>> Well, the one thing that I thought of is it's
programming-centric. If
>> it's going to be based on GNOME
shell you might want a designer or a
>> docs writer maybe? Just
an idea.
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>>
Unfortunately I'm not quite as involved in GNOME as I used to be, just
>> for lack of time. :( I'm an interaction designer with Red Hat
and I do a
>> lot of UI mockups, user research, and sometimes
marketing stuff too.
>> Lately I've been really involved in
doing these things for Fedora
>> specifically (although when I
do rich-client mockups they are always for
>> GNOME using the
HIG :) ), but in the past I have worked on things like
>> the
GNOME brand book and template for the site that's currently in use
>> at gnome.org, and some various artworks and things like
that.
>>
>> As a designer my favorite thing about
GNOME is the design awareness that
>> is part of the community
- rarely do I have to get any GNOME developers
>> I work with
up-to-speed becaues they already know their stuff and
>>
already recognize the value of design. I can dig in and get working
>> without having to argue design's case - folks are already sold.
:)
>>
>> Are there any designers or folks interested
in design and usability on
>> the list?
>>
>> ~m
>>
>>
_______________________________________________
>>
gnome-women-list mailing list
>>
gnome-women-list mail gnome org
>>
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-women-list
>>
> _______________________________________________
>
gnome-women-list mailing list
> gnome-women-list mail gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-women-list