Comments on: Ubuntu Women Project Status – Early 2009 https://princessleia.com/journal/2009/03/ubuntu-women-project-status-early-2009/ Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph's public journal about open source, mainframes, beer, travel, pink gadgets and her life near the city where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars. Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:50:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 By: RoboNuggie https://princessleia.com/journal/2009/03/ubuntu-women-project-status-early-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-1294 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:50:02 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1489#comment-1294 In my household I can count at least two female Ubuntu users, first my wife who uses it on the main family desktop, and secondly my teenage daughter who loves and uses Ubuntu on her laptop.

@ihu, I think the success of Ubuntu is down to it’s community and it’s ease of use. I think you find it difficult to accept that people want these things, but, you are free to use other distros, Enjoy the choice!

]]> By: Mackenzie https://princessleia.com/journal/2009/03/ubuntu-women-project-status-early-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-1293 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:25:47 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1489#comment-1293 Ihu:
That’s neither here nor there. This post is simply a status update regarding how women are working together and trying to get more women interested in free and open source software. In case you’re not aware, only 2% of FOSS contributors are women, while 28% of developers in the proprietary world are women. We’d like to stop being seen as weird for being girls and using Linux, but the only thing that’ll stop that being weird is there being just plain more of us.

]]> By: ihu https://princessleia.com/journal/2009/03/ubuntu-women-project-status-early-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-1288 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:17:15 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1489#comment-1288 s not nearly as good as its fanbois portray it to be — certainly not moreso than many other distros. Its “success” is all the result hype and fanboi “marketing”.]]> Ubuntu is the most overrated distro ever put out. It’s not nearly as good as its fanbois portray it to be — certainly not moreso than many other distros. Its “success” is all the result hype and fanboi “marketing”.

]]> By: Leigh Honeywell https://princessleia.com/journal/2009/03/ubuntu-women-project-status-early-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-1287 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:59:14 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1489#comment-1287 Thanks for the great update! I was sorry to miss the meeting but I don’t think I was awake for it :(

I really value the space which #ubuntu-women represents on IRC. I think it’s the only channel I’ve ever spent much time in which is primarily women.

-Leigh

]]> By: Debian https://princessleia.com/journal/2009/03/ubuntu-women-project-status-early-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-1286 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:46:28 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1489#comment-1286 The Debian Women project looks like it could use some help as it seems a bit dormant.

]]> By: David Thomas https://princessleia.com/journal/2009/03/ubuntu-women-project-status-early-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-1285 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:51:38 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1489#comment-1285 What a great project, got to get my wife involved. Who did your logo it’s really very good.

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