Hi, I'm Nattes living in Geneva, Switzerland. I am half French and half British, and
currently working at the University of Geneva in a service dedicated to dual careers in
order to facilitate retention of women academics and researchers.
I made my first steps in the free software movement by setting up workshops to teach women
how to contribute to Wikipedia during a mandate I had from the University's Diversity
and Inclusion office. I still teach this in a 4 year assignment at the Gender Studies
department financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
I am very passionate about issues concerning the gender gap and promoting inclusion, as
well as helping newbies to find their own way in complex and sometimes not very friendly
projects. I am very interested in the way Fedora is doing this, with a clear defined
process and very admirative of the Fedora Badges.
I have had a few friends telling me how "fedorable" this community was, but
since I was invited at the Fedora week of diversity last October, I have felt very shy
because I am not a coder. Someone proposed that I translate docs, and I first I thought it
would be pretty boring for an unpaid activity. But then as I do want to use free software
more, and learn Python, I thought I could manage a win win approach by first translating
documents that a newbie would stumble upon when joining your community.
Apart from that I love reading (sci fi and feminist stuff above all), swimming and kayak,
and playing Animal Crossing.
I look forward to knowing more about Fedora!