[Fedora Women] Intro

[Rikke D. Giles]

Hello,

My name is Rikke Giles and I found this list from the article on  
Slashdot.

I've been using Redhat, and subsequently Fedora, since 1997.  I've been  
involved in computers since just before the advent of personal  
computers.  I was taught Fortran, Basic and Pascal and went on to teach  
myself Prolog, C, C++, and a few others.

I tend to program exclusively in C.  In the past few years I've not  
made as many contributions to OSS as I'd like to, although I am the  
author of one of the most popular how-tos for Glade.  I'm also  
currently the Vice-President of my local LUG.  I've been the President,  
and was Vice-President for 2 years before being President.  There are  
two women in the LUG, which is pretty good considering we have only  
about 15 regular members.  The other woman is the computer/math/science  
teacher at our local High School.

I got into using Linux because I needed a free Unix like OS on which I  
could program software for my graduate studies in Archaeology.  I used  
Redhat (5.1 I think it was) because it was the only distro that worked  
well enough to actually use at the time.  I've stuck with Redhat and  
then Fedora because it has basically 'just worked' for me, although I  
have to admit the earlier years required plenty of tweaking!

Current programming interests are widget building, astronomy, data  
archiving and analysis, graphical representation of data, and weather  
analysis.

I hope I can be of help to Fedora.  It's certainly helped me throughout  
the years.

Cheers,
Rikke