[puduvailug] Re: Fwd: For Ada Lovelace Day, highlighting FSF sysadmin Lisa Maginnis
- From: Suvedha Gurubaran <suvedhahere@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "puduvailug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <puduvailug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 19:46:50 +0530
super :)
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 5:32 PM, sarath kumar <crazysarath8055@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> :)
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Pradeep Kumar M Sreedharan <
> iglobalsailor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> That was a great message that you forwarded. Thank you!
>> On Oct 15, 2014 11:10 AM, "Prasanna Venkadesh" <prasmailme@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Free Software Foundation <info@xxxxxxx>
>>> Date: Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 5:51 AM
>>> Subject: For Ada Lovelace Day, highlighting FSF sysadmin Lisa Maginnis
>>> To: Prasanna Venkadesh <prasmailme@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>
>>> [image: Free Software Foundation]
>>>
>>> Dear Prasanna,
>>>
>>> Today is Ada Lovelace Day, when we share stories of women in technology
>>> and their achievements.
>>>
>>> The holiday is named after a 19th-century English mathematician who is
>>> considered by many to be the first programmer. Though generations passed
>>> before her contribution was fully acknowledged, she was a pioneer both as a
>>> scientist and as a challenger of rigid gender roles. For this Ada Lovelace
>>> Day, we're profiling Lisa Maginnis, who is the FSF's senior systems
>>> administrator.
>>>
>>> As the leader of the technical team, Lisa is responsible for choosing,
>>> configuring, and maintaining the FSF's office computers and servers. She
>>> uses extensive knowledge of hardware, networking, and electrical
>>> engineering to maintain a complex array of all-free software. An alert
>>> system sends text messages to her OpenMoko
>>> <http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page> if servers have problems, and
>>> she's no stranger to urgent after-hours trips to the office to get
>>> something back online.
>>>
>>> Since the FSF is the organizational sponsor of the GNU Project, Lisa
>>> also administers https://gnu.org and various GNU development
>>> repositories. GNU is a central piece in the free software world, and Lisa
>>> plays a larger role in keeping it running than many people know.
>>> Lisa Maginnis
>>>
>>> Lisa's life as a hacker started when she was thirteen, when her mother
>>> tried to teach her C programming from a book. Frustrated by her inability
>>> to compile the first exercise on Windows 95, she started exploring the
>>> Internet and discovered GCC and Slackware GNU/Linux. What followed was
>>> multiple weeks of Lisa downloading Slackware over her 56k Internet
>>> connection and teaching herself how to install it. By the end, she had not
>>> only successfully compiled and run the book's first exercise, but
>>> discovered free software and left Windows for good.
>>>
>>> Self-directed and ambitious, Lisa dropped out of college when her
>>> professors refused to let her use free software tools for her projects. She
>>> put to rest any doubts about her decision when she helped found two
>>> companies, and then settled at the FSF.
>>>
>>> Lisa is not just an enthusiast, but a deep believer in the value and
>>> importance of free software. Along with the need for freedom, she also
>>> believes that free software is important to avoid duplication of
>>> proprietary work, and to help developers "stand on the shoulders of giants."
>>>
>>> When she's not working at the FSF, Lisa finds the time to maintain
>>> OpenCashier, a free software point of sale system. She's also contributed
>>> to a medical records system called OpenEMR <http://open-emr.org/>, and
>>> now writes patches for software used by the FSF, like CiviCRM
>>> <https://civicrm.org>.
>>>
>>> As an expert in free software and in computer hardware, Lisa also
>>> advises the FSF's campaigns and licensing teams on technical issues -- it's
>>> common for her to review technically complex writings before they are sent
>>> out. She even participates actively in campaigns and attends conferences to
>>> promote the FSF.
>>>
>>> Lisa combines technical talent and skill with a love of computer user
>>> freedom. As a self-taught system administrator with a commitment to
>>> freedom, her career has not been free of challenges, but she's turned each
>>> struggle into an opportunity and climbed to an influential position. She's
>>> a cornerstone of the FSF and an important resource for the GNU Project.
>>> Thank you, Lisa for your contribution to free software.
>>>
>>> You can find Lisa on Freenode IRC as *nully* in the #fsf or #gnu
>>> channels. The FSF is currently looking for another system administrator
>>> <https://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs/fsf-seeks-full-time-senior-gnu-linux-systems-administrator-2>,
>>> so if you've got the chops, you can join her team!
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Zak Rogoff
>>> Campaigns Manager
>>>
>>> *You can view this post on the Web at
>>> https://fsf.org/blogs/community/for-ada-lovelace-day-highlighting-fsf-sysadmin-lisa-maginnis
>>> <https://fsf.org/blogs/community/for-ada-lovelace-day-highlighting-fsf-sysadmin-lisa-maginnis>.*
>>>
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>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks & Regards,
>>> Prasanna Venkadesh.
>>>
>>>
>
>
> --
> Thanks and regards
>
> Sharath <crazysarath8055@xxxxxxxxx>
>
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