[women-commits] [SCM] Repository for the Debian Women project branch, master, updated. bd7b104e2c4dabf92e48840be14d67942e99e9e6

[Meike Reichle]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit bd7b104e2c4dabf92e48840be14d67942e99e9e6
Author: Meike Reichle <meike at debian.org>
Date:   Mon May 16 17:03:24 2011 +0200

    updated my profile

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@@ -267,8 +267,10 @@ Women logo"></div>
 
  Look at the list of bugs and try to find the fix for one.
     There are lots of easy ones.
+
 ##Meike Reichle
- <img src="../Pics/meike.jpg" class="profile" alt="mailto:marga (at) debian (dot) org" height="213" width="150">
+
+ <img src="../Pics/meike.jpg" class="profile" alt="Meike Reichle" height="213" width="150">
  <strong>Website:</strong>
  <a href="http://www.alphascorpii.net/" alt="http://www.alphascorpii.net/">http://www.alphascorpii.net/</a><br>
  <strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:meike at debian.org" alt="meike at debian.org">meike at debian.org</a><br>
@@ -282,23 +284,25 @@ Women logo"></div>
     at that time.) and fiddling with the family 486 was a total
     no-go. When I started studying at the university in 2001 I finally
     bought the first computer of my own. Working on the University's
-    Unix terminals quickly got me hooked on *nixes again. From 2001
+    Unix terminals quickly got me hooked on *nixes. From 2001
     to 2004 I on and off tried several different distrubutions
-    (Mandrake, RedHat, Gentoo, even x86 Solaris), but none of them
+    (Mandrake, RedHat, Gentoo, even Solaris x86), but none of them
     fully convinced me. In 2004 I finally switched to Debian and
     have never looked back since then.
  <h3 class="question">Are you a Debian developer?</h3>
- Yes.
+ Yes, since 2008.
  <h3 class="question">What areas of Debian are you involved with?</h3>
- I maintain a few packages and do a lot of PR, mainly by
-        staffing Debian booths and giving talks and BOFs at national
-	and international Linux events. I also try to be of help to
-	fellow Debian users on IRC and in real life.
+I maintain packages and am one of currently three delegated Debian Press Officers.
+Besides my press work I do a lot of travelling to represent Debian at all
+kinds of Linux and Free Software events, usually by staffing/organising
+Debian booths and giving talks on all things Debian and Free Software related.
+I am, by now, also somewhat of a debian-women veteran :)
+
  <h3 class="question">What got you interested in working with Debian?</h3>
  I tried a few other Unix and Linux distributions before I
         finally ended up with Debian. After using it for some time I
 	decided that I liked the project so much that I wanted to be a
-	part of it. I started of by reading and writing on mailing
+	part of it. I started off by reading and writing on mailing
 	lists and irc and then got more and more involved until I
 	finally applied for a developer account myself.
  <h3 class="question"> Do you have any tips for women interested in getting
@@ -307,7 +311,7 @@ Women logo"></div>
  Don't be shy. Don't give up after the first failure,
         nor after the second or third. Debian and the people in
 	it sometimes need some time to get acquainted with, but it's
-	definitely worth it! I guess the best is to find a niche
+	definitely worth it! I guess the best way to go is to find a niche
 	that fits your interests and begin working there, getting
 	more and more involved in the whole project as times goes
 	on.
@@ -316,21 +320,17 @@ Women logo"></div>
  I am subscribed to several mailing lists at
         <a href="http://www.technixen.net/" alt="technixen.net">technixen.net</a>, a
         German platform for women in different areas of computing.
-	Also I am a <a href="http://www.cybermentor.de/" alt="Cyber
-	Mentor">Cyber
-	Mentor</a>.
+	Also I am a <a href="http://www.cybermentor.de/" alt="Cyber Mentor">Cyber
+	Mentor</a> and have by now acquired something like a reputation for giving
+	"Non-Dogmatic Women in IT Talks".
  <h3 class="question">A bit more about Meike ...</h3>
- I got my Master's Degree (<i>Magister</i>) in Information
-        Sciences at the University of Hildesheim and am now working as
-	scientific assistant in a PhD position at the Department of
-	Information Science's Intelligent Information Systems Lab.
-	My main area of research is case-based reasoning, a form of
-	artificial intelligence.<br><br>
-
-	In my (little) spare time I like reading SF books and
-	listining to ska and blues music. I also love to travel and
-	always enjoy meeting fellow Debianists at the places I travel
-	to.
+ I've got a Master's Degree (<i>Magister</i>) in Information
+        Sciences and work as Project Manager at an embedded Linux company.
+
+	In my spare time I like crafting and all sorts of DIY activities.
+	I read a lot (mostly SF), like to listen to music (mostly ska,
+	punk and blues), love to travel and always enjoy meeting fellow
+	Debianists at the places I travel to.
 ##Miriam Ruiz
  <img src="../Pics/miriam.jpg" class="profile" alt="http://www.cybermentor.de/" height="249" width="189">
  <strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:little_miry at yahoo.es" alt="little_miry at yahoo.es">little_miry at yahoo.es</a><br>

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