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Author: Francesca Ciceri <madamezou at zouish.org>
Date:   Mon Oct 14 19:47:35 2013 +0200

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+Title: Ada Lovelace Day: meet some of the "women behind Debian"!
+Date: 2013-10-15 00:05
+Tags: ada lovelace day, debian women, diversity
+Slug: ada-lovelace-day 
+Author: Ana Guerrero Lopez and Francesca Ciceri
+Status: draft 
+
+Today is [Ada Lovelace](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace) Day:
+
+>*"Ada Lovelace Day is about sharing stories of women - whether engineers,
+scientist, technologists or mathematicians - who have inspired you to
+become who you are today. The aim is to create new role models for girls
+and women in these male-dominated fields by raising the profile of other women in STEM".
+[source](http://findingada.com)*
+
+To celebrate, we asked to some of the "women behind Debian" to share their stories with us.
+Enjoy!
+
+![Alt Ada Lovelace portrait](|filename|/images/ada_lovelace.png)
+
+##Ana Guerrero Lopez
+
+*Who are you?*  
+
+*What do you work on in Debian?*
+
+*How and why did you start contributing to Debian?*
+
+
+##Beatrice
+
+*Who are you?*
+
+I am a PhD student with a degree in Biology. I am a computer fan since
+my first C64 and I am a self-taught computer geek wanna-be. And I am a
+bug fan - not software bugs, real bugs :)
+
+*What do you work on in Debian?*
+
+I work on translations - doing the translation work itself, but also
+reviewing other translators' work and helping in coordinating the
+translation effort.
+
+*How and why did you start contributing to Debian?*
+
+I started using Linux because I liked the idea of an open source
+operative system based on collaboration and I began reviewing open
+source software translations. Since my first Linux system was Debian
+Potato and I sticked to Debian ever since, it only seemed natural to
+focus my translation work on Debian.
+
+
+##Christine Caulfield
+
+*Who are you?*  
+
+My name is Christine Caulfield. My day job is principal software
+engineer at Red Hat working on the cluster infrastructure components
+corosync & pacemaker. Outside computing I'm a musician and sound
+engineer. I play violin with lots of technology attached, and love
+avant garde music.
+
+*What do you work on in Debian?*  
+  
+I'm not that active on Debian any more due to pressure of time, and
+maturity of the packages I work on. I currently maintain the,
+little-used, DECnet userspace packages and the, even less used I
+suspect, mopd bootloader. I used to maintain lvm2 for a while but
+dropped that a few years ago.
+
+*How and why did you start contributing to Debian?*  
+
+My initial reasons for joining Debian were slightly selfish, to find a
+home for the DECnet project that I was heavily involved in at the
+time. I was a keep Debian user and people wanted a distribution where
+the software was easy to set up. DECnet is quite complicated for users
+to configure, being a totally independant networking stack to IP
+and so OS support is needed. Debian seemed like the logical place to
+make this happen.  
+As mentioned above I got quite involved for a time and maintained
+other packages too. I picked up lvm2 because I was on the lvm2 dev
+team at work in Red Hat and as it was a new package at that time I
+seemed a logical choice.
+
+
+##Elena Grandi (valhalla)
+
+*Who are you?* 
+
+I'm a 30-something years old geek and Free Software enthusiast
+from Italy.
+
+*What do you work on in Debian?*
+
+I'm currently maintaining a few packages (2 python modules and a python
+program) as a sponsored uploader; I'm also slowly looking around
+for other things to do (by preference technical, but not limited
+to packaging), with the aim to spend more time contributing
+to Debian.
+
+*How and why did you start contributing to Debian?*
+
+For a while I had being distro-hopping between "fun" distributions
+(the ones that break now and then) on the desktop while using
+Debian stable on the home server and in chroots.
+I was already doing marginal contributions to those distributions,
+where finding stuff that was missing was easy, but my perception
+as a stable user was that Debian was already working fine and probably
+didn't really need any help.  
+Then I started to socialize on IRC with some DDs and DMs, and
+realized that my perception was superficial and that in reality
+there were dark holes in the depths of the archive where Evil
+festered and prospered and... ok, sorry, I got carried away :)  
+Anyway, since I was actually using Debian more and more
+I decided to start contributing: I read documentation, I attended
+the useful IRC sessions on #debian-women and decided that it was
+probably best not to add new stuff, but look for things that
+I used and that needed help. Then nothing happened for a while,
+because finding stuff that doesn't work *is hard* (at least
+on my mostly textual systems).  
+Then one day I was trying to write a python script that needed
+to verify gpg signed messages; it had to run on my Debian server,
+so I was trying to use python-pyme and its documentation
+was painful to use, while I remembered an earlier attempt
+using python-gnupg that was much more pythonic, but not available
+in Debian.  
+In a fit of anger I decided to forgo all of my good intentions and
+actually add a new package: I checked the sources for problems,
+packaged, sent it to mentors at d-o, got reviews, fixed problems,
+resent and finally got sponsored and well, everything started.
+
+
+##Francesca Ciceri (madamezou)
+
+*Who are you?*
+
+I'm Francesca, a 30-something Italian graduated in Social Sciences. 
+
+*What do you work on in Debian?*
+
+I'm a (non uploading) Debian Developer since 2011 and have been DPN
+editor, press officer, webmaster for www.debian.org and translator for the
+Italian l10n team. Recently, due to time constraints, I had to reduce my
+involvement and now only work on two things: writing/editing articles for
+bits.debian.org together with Ana Guerrero, and creating subtitles for the
+DebConf talks, in the DebCconf Subs team.
+
+*How and why did you start contributing to Debian?*
+
+Basically thanks to the sudden abundance of free time - due to an health
+problem - and the desire to give something back to this wonderful operating
+system.  After that, I found out that Debian is not only a great OS but also a
+very special community. Today, some of my dearest friends are people I met
+through Debian. :)
+
+
+##Mònica Ramírez Arceda
+
+*Who are you?* 
+
+My name is Mònica Ramírez Arceda and I am an enthusiast of free software
+and sharing knowledge cultures: for me it's a kind of philosophy of
+life. I studied Maths a long time ago but ended up working as a
+developer for some years. Now I'm working as an IT teacher.
+
+*What do you work on in Debian?*
+
+Debian is a huge project, so you can help in various scopes. Mainly, I
+work on [packaging](http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=monica@debian.org),
+[fixing wnpp bug inconsistencies in BTS](http://qa.debian.org/~bartm/wnpp-rfs-mentors/wnpp-inconsistencies.txt)
+and [helping in spam cleaning of the mailing lists](https://lists.debian.org/archive-spam-removals/review/).
+But I also enjoy doing some non-technical work from time to time: the project I am just now involved
+is organizing, with the rest of Debian Catalan community, a local team
+to propose [Barcelona as the venue for a minidebconf where all the
+speakers will be women](https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen/Projects/MiniDebconf-Women/2014/).
+
+*How and why did you start contributing to Debian?*
+
+In 2000 I discovered Free Software world and I fell deeply in love with
+its philosophy. Since then, I've been trying to do my best in different
+activities, like spreading the word, giving free courses, helping
+collectives and friends in technical stuff (from installing Debian to
+developing some helping apps for them)... but two years ago I was
+looking forward to join a free software project and I decided to try
+Debian, since it has been my first and only distro in my day-to-day life
+for about ten years.  
+So, I wanted to give back Debian all what it had offered to me, but....
+I thought I couldn't (hey, Debian is for real hackers, not for you
+little ant!), but I started to adopt some orphaned packages, do some QA
+uploads, fix some RC bugs, talk with some Debian Developers that help me
+and encouraged me more than I expected, I traveled to my first
+Debconf... And one thing takes you to the other, and on March 2012 I
+became a DD. Now, I'm glad to see that everything that frightened me is
+not so scary :-)
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