marilu’s blog
New experiences!
I’m just returned from my first international conference about Free Software. I was really lucky because I also had the possibility to partecipate to the first FSFE fellows meeting…Yes is only a month that I started my internship in Zurich office and I had the opportunity to meet the most part of the team members and a big part of the fellows!
The computer’s world is very strange: you work and speak all the days of your life with people that maybe you’ve never seen! For this reason I think that organised a fellows meeting was a great idea…an idea that must repeate in the future to trasform the work that the Foundation is doing is something concrete and that really exist!
Is necessary that I tell something about these great experiences to the others fellows that unfourtunately couldn’t partecipate to the events.
Before arriving in Bolzano my mind was thinking what kind of strange people could I meet: usually I immagine fanatic people of computer very stressed and not sociable. People that can only speak with maths formulas and see you like a number and not a person!…
But what I discover at the SFSCon and the fellows meeting is that everyone should partecipate and support these events, because as the majour speakers of the conference said ‘Free Software and Free Software Foundation are argoument that should associate all kind of people’, and notonly programmers or students of informatics…I’m the evidence of this!
I have to admit that work an international context, with different culture backgrounds is sometimes a little difficult, is necessary to achieve a compromise but was fantastic saw in all the partecipants the same incredible enthusiasm!…Maybe free Software is more powerful than
differences!
The only diffrence that is possible find is the number of men and women that are involved in these manifestation…So as a woman I try to use my blog to exort people, in particolar female people, to be courious on what happen around us!