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List:       kde-women
Subject:    [Kde-women]Who am I?
From:       Lauri Watts <lauri () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-03-07 12:39:37
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Hi :)

I think the last thing I wrote on here was my last introduction.  I really 
wish I had more time to help create a more active community, but it's still 
nice to see traffic on the list :)

Here's what I am not: I'm not a programmer, I'm not a Linux User, I'm not a 
physicist, and I don't smoke a pipe (well, I may have once, but I didn't 
inhale, I swear)

I'm 29, I'm from New Zealand, and live now in Sweden, I have three children 
ranging from 11 to 3, and I'm a graphic designer by day.  My employment 
history in IT is mostly in hardware - I used to be one of those nice people 
you call up from IBM to come and fix your monitor.  Or your printer, or your 
ATM machine out on the street.. if it can be intimidated into working with a 
screwdriver or a solder kit, or for recalcitrant cases, both, I can probably 
fix it.     

I have absolutely no skill at programming, I once wrote a shell script that 
nearly does what I want, most of the time.  I'm not much interested in being 
an admin although I can manage it if I have to.  My Unix background covers 
various incarnations of several commercial UNIXes, from AIX to Solaris with a 
smallish helping of HP-UX, but only as an end-user.  Linux and I just 
entirely don't get along, I've several times tried and it's *just too hard* 
heh.  I use FreeBSD instead, have done for 6 or 7 years now at home.

What do I do for KDE?  Well, I'm KDE's Documentation Coordinator, which sounds 
impressive but mostly consists of a nearly unmanageable email load, 
handholding new writers as they take the steps from tentative approach to 
being productive, sometimes translating extended tantrums from the 
translators into polite requests to the development teams, and desperately 
trying to get some documentation written in the small down time I have.  This 
position has enabled me to develop advanced skills in Nagging, which should 
be made a sport, because I would earn medals, and it's also earned me the 
nickname "the Documinatrix" in certain quarters, which I must admit, I think 
is pretty cute.

My other task for KDE is more peripheral, I'm one of the FreeBSD packagers, 
which can be interesting at times.

My goals for KDE? I want KDE to have documentation as excellent as the FreeBSD 
handbook, which is good enough the online version is regularly printed 
directly as a dead-tree book by O'Reilly.  KDE is not there yet, and some 
days I feel like we're slipping further back, but that's the goal.  

My other goal is to make sure KDE stays a cross platform/cross OS desktop.  It 
should be sold as an enormous advantage to corporate environments with a lot 
of legacy Unix hardware and operating systems, that they could put a 
homogenous desktop environment on them all, which has to be good for internal 
IT to support.

And finally, I need to learn to not write epic novels when I'm starting out to 
write an email!

Regards,
-- 
Lauri Watts



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