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[John Kim <johnkim.ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Emily, 

Welcome to the group! Your efforts to spread Ubuntu and the skills you are teaching for the next generation of open source enthusiasts are truly appreciated! 

My first experience with Ubuntu happened around 5th grade out of disinterest in Windows. Few years later, my visit to the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Oakland, CA, made me serious about joining the community and contributing whatever I could. Now, I've been busy with bug management and documentation work. I hope to get into testing, packaging, and developing for some core applications in Ubuntu. 

For the various ways you can contribute, please see the community page [1].

Thanks! 

[1] http://community.ubuntu.com/


On February 19, 2014 8:33:43 PM PST, Emily Gonyer <emilyyrose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>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
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