From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Feb 5 12:30:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25533 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 12:30:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from o-o.org (o-o.org [207.252.201.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25428 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 12:29:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Received: from localhost (licia@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by o-o.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10244; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 13:09:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 13:09:40 -0600 (CST) From: Licia To: Wes Peters cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Women in FreeBSD ( was Re: Is there a reseller program?) In-Reply-To: <19990205105035.A5525@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 09:31:52AM -0600, Licia wrote: > > > > Oh, that's not how I feel at all. I've been programming since I was 10 > > years old (that's 18 years for those who are counting :) ) and I'm fairly > > confident about my skills and I take the time to reason out my opinions > > and ideas. I tend to lurk to avoid abuse. > > I wondered about that, since your contributions to -advocacy have always > seemed confident, and you haven't seemed to shy away from differences in > opinion. I agree with Don Wilde, all opinions are welcomed as long as > stated politely, and opinions will necessarily differ. If they didn't, > we'd never accomplish anything here. > I don't mind differing opinions, I don't mind disagreement, debate, and even the occasional argument at all. Abuse however, tends to cause me to simply leave. :) > > If I am confident that something I'm considering saying will not result in > > more abuse than I feel the issue is worth, I post. If not, I don't. I post > > as much as I do on advocacy, simply because I feel strongly about what needs > > to be done in these areas, and I've discovered that I quite enjoy the work > > involved. > > Great. Now write some articles somewhere. You're obviously a good writer, > and FreeBSD needs your help. Can you write for Daemon News? An occasional > article would be great, a regular column (or contributing to one of our > existing columns) would be even better. > I do write occasional articles, and post them on my home page at the moment. In the future, when I finish my advocacy/support web site, I will include my own writing in the archives. In the mean time, I am quite open to requests that are within my range of interests, or even to allowing people to reuse material posted on my home page. (except for the poetry, I prefer that not be redistributed. :) ) > > (for those who are counting, I have given away my entire original order of > > 1,250 FreeBSD pens and re-ordered! :) ) > > What do I have to do to get one? Order my own and give away the rest? > Those would be great for user group meetings, wouldn't they? > (smiles) at the moment, simply email me your postal address, along with how many pens you want (up to 5) and I will send them off when I get a chance. :) > > I have noticed that the lists are much less prone to that type of behavior > > than IRC, but old habits die hard, and it will be a while I am sure before I > > am completely comfortable with things. Additionally, I am a bit more active > > on the FreeBSD Applications Developer mailing list. If someone posts on > > there, I most likely -will- reply to them, as applications are currently my > > main area of interest. > > That'd make a nice column for Daemon News. ;^) > The FAD mailing list? I would wait until it gets more traffic. Currently there are only 12 subscribers, and volume is very low. So far most messages are reply-less :/ [ licia@o-o.org ] [ http://www.o-o.org/~licia/ ] [ Alias : Ladywolf] [ Telnet to o-o.org and log in as bbs ] [ ssh -l bbs -C o-o.org ] [ A happy user of FreeBSD : http://www.freebsd.org/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message