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[Emily Gonyer <emilyyrose@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

My name's Emily Gonyer and I'm a longtime user & advocate of
GNU/Linux. I first heard about and (attempted) to install GNU/Linux
sometime in the mid-late 1990s. Through 2006 I generally ran dual-boot
systems with varying amounts of success, until late 2006 when I
installed Ubuntu 6.10 (I think.) fort he first time. I'll never forget
the amazement of that first Ubuntu install...  I'd just installed
GNU/Linux... and everything worked! I've been a (very) happy Ubuntu
user ever since :)

In late 2011 I heard about GNOME's Outreach Program for Women and
through OPW became involved in GNOME's Marketing (now 'Engagement')
team. The last couple of years I've discovered that I love
conferences, and made it to FOSDEM, GUADEC and Ohio Linux Fest in 2012
& 2013 as well as the Boston Summit in 2012 and Ada Camp in 2013.
Though I've missed FOSDEM this year, I'm excited to be attending
LibrePlanet in Boston for the first time in March.

I'm currently teaching a class on Free Software to a group of
homeschoolers (ages 9 - 12), and in our first class last week I gave
them each a live USB key with Ubuntu on it, showed them how to boot
into it and answered basic questions. I have 5 more classes with them
in the next couple of months and am planning to explain the Four
Freedoms, how to interact on mailing lists, IRC, stack exchanges, etc
properly and probably go into a bit of basic programming via Scratch
and/or Alice.

I've spent the last couple months refocusing on Ubuntu, though my
involvement has been fairly minimal as I attempt to determine
how/where I can fit into the community. Of late I've primarily been
writing summaries and helping to proof read/edit the Ubuntu Weekly
News and for the first time did some proof reading and editing of Full
Circle Magazine.

I'm excited to be joining Ubuntu Evangelists and hope to find new ways
to contribute to Ubuntu :)


Emily Gonyer
-- 
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it. -  Goethe

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't
matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein