I have read some of your posts and it is true that there are not many women in the computer field. I discovered Ubuntu when a friend of my husband's mentioned Ubuntu. He works on computers as a hobby. I have an associates degree in computers and networking so I am a 55 year old female computer geek, which is not very common here in the US. My name is Zoe Gambrell and I am an Ubuntu woman. Hope I can get to know some other women who are computer techs like me. I don't know of any others around where I live here in Tennessee, USA.
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Welcome I'm not but just to say, I know you are not alone....
Thank you for responding. Glad to meet you.
Oh, and here it is 11:11PM. :-)
Uk 5.20am
Welcome Zoe_Gambrell, hope you hang around for awhile. I suppose I am a computer geek of sorts although I have no formal education as such, strictly self-taught.
Welcome, Zoe. I would suggest you to join our team on LP [1] and sign up onto the mailing-list [2] in order for you to introduce yourself to the rest of us. We are slightly more active in the mailing-list and the IRC channels. I also suggest you to pop into the IRC channels: #ubuntu-women and #ubuntu-women-project on chat.freenode.net and say "hello" there. Please keep in mind that the second channel is LOGGED and the first is not.
[1]https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-women [2]https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-Women
One of the smartest computer programmers (IF NOT THE SMARTEST AND MOST TALENTED) I know is a woman, she is brilliant!!!! I admire her so much for what she accomplished :)
[COLOR=#000000]One of the smartest computer programmers (IF NOT THE SMARTEST AND MOST TALENTED) I know is a woman, she is brilliant!!!! I admire her so much for what she accomplished [/COLOR]:smile:
The first computer programmer was Ada Lovelace.
Sef said: The first computer programmer was Ada Lovelace.
The controversial source for the computer "bug" term!
+ Welcome, Zoe!
Here! I'm from Italy, I'm linux addicted and I help translating Ubuntu into my language. Pleased to meet you
Welcome indeed, to the Ubuntu Forums!:p
Hi!
Zoe_Gambrell said: I discovered Ubuntu when a friend of my husband's mentioned Ubuntu.
I discovered Ubuntu the same way!:KS
[COLOR=#000000]Welcome Zoe_Gambrell![/COLOR]
Welcome! You're in great company - COBOL was invented by a woman - Grace Hopper
It's very awesome to see that there are Female Linux Geeks here!
Welcome to the forum Zoe, it's great to see females that love geek stuff it's truly amazing all the cool stuff we can accomplish with it.
sorry guys i dont want to criticise.. im sure this forum is full of well prepared and smart people.. but i don't understand the reason to specify you are a woman... so? like in chess there are a lot of women good at logic thought.. anyway i don't understand why in chess to reach GM title you need less points.. anyway.. gz
When you're a minority in a community, like women are in Ubuntu, it can be inspiring and encouraging to find other people like yourself participating.
elizabeth said: When you're a minority in a community, like women are in Ubuntu, it can be inspiring and encouraging to find other people like yourself participating.
It's great to have have everyone involved in the Ubuntu community leaning is inspiring
So nice with more women using Ubuntu.