On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 14:35 +0200, Susanne Graf wrote:

On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:16:34 +0200 Katarina Machalkova wrote:

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Hey there,

I'm really excited opensuse-women's finally reality, so here I am to join the pack. To say few things about myself - I'm a female openSUSE hacker, based in Prague, Czech republic. I'm probably best known for my work on YaST, be it its GUI libraries, control centre or various usability issues. Currently I'm a part of OpenOffice team, but I'm still contributing patches to YaST when I'm bored ;)

I have to admit I've been playing with idea of opensuse-women for a long time, but (as I already stated on opensuse-project@) never felt brave enough to make it happen.

I already have some ideas on what opensuse-women could work on in particular (mentioned some of those on opensuse-project@ already), be it making female contributors somehow more visible, or starting some mentoring programme for (female, but not necessarily) newcomers, or organizing opensuse-women BoF session @opensuse conference So let's see what we can come up with together

hB.

Hey :)

I have to introduce myself, too. My name is Susanne Graf and I'm normally a user of openSUSE. For the next 2 weeks I'm in an internship by Novell at openSUSE and hope to make some packages better. At the Linuxtag2010 a employee of openSUSE ask me to found the women community and I agreed.

I'm very happy, that you, Katarina, are interested in the openSUSE Women community and have a lot of ideas and interests here. I hope we can build a good working community with fresh ideas and nice people.

For the openSUSE conference I thought too to make some things, to meet the other women of openSUSE and to introduce openSUSE Women to the visitors of the conference.

The mentoring programme is interesting, too. But I really agree if it is not only for female. Maybe we can start it and later some other openSUSE people are interested in mentoring, too.

Have a lot of fun

Susanne

Hi all, I guess I should join the bandwagon and introduce myself as well. :-) I'm Bryen Yunashko, and I'm based in Chicago, Illinois, USA. I serve on the openSUSE Board, now presently in my second term. I am also team lead for the openSUSE Marketing Team. In addition to the openSUSE activities, I am also the lead for GNOME Foundation's A11y Team Outreach program to help spread the word about the great tools for accessibility in open source. One thing we can boast here about my position on the Board is that I am the world's first Deaf-Blind sitting member of a distro Board. W00t! :-) Growing up, I lived in the shadow of my mother who was a trainer and owned her own school teaching how to use Novell products to students. She always was excited whenever there were female students in her classes and always said so to me. I've been exposed all my life now to the importance of bringing more women into software, and particularly to open source now. It is disheartening that the percentage of women who enter into open source versus proprietary is *very very* low. And we certainly must do more to attract that. For the most part, I will lurk, and occasionally offer up some opinions wherever I feel it is okay to do so. I feel a kindred spirit already with this new group because of how I was raised about women and because I myself am a minority too in this open source community. So thanks to all of you to do your great work and please do not hesitate to contact me if you need my assistance or support anywhere. I'm looking forward to meeting you all at the openSUSE Conference in October. Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Marketing Team lead GNOME-A11y Outreach lead -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-women+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-women+help@opensuse.org