Hey now

[Danese Cooper <da...@gmail.com>]

And I'd also like to say hello.  I'm Danese Cooper and I've never  
committed a line of code to Apache, but I was instrumental in helping  
Jason Hunter negotiate the changes to JCP which have allowed Geronimo  
and Harmony and I was listed by Geir as a sponsor of Harmony (mostly  
because I read the early drafts of the proposal, I think) and I  
worked hard to convince the board that they should pay more attention  
to even application of the Contributor's Agreement.  I also advocated  
for the ASLv2.0 at OSI.  For the last 6+ years my paying job has been  
"evangelism" of open source around the world (especially in the  
developing world), and I've been on the board of the Open Source  
Initiative since 2001.

I'm very glad we got this chance to talk with the rest of the women  
currently @ apache dot org to see whether we can describe a common  
goal of a public women@ list.

Danese

Re: Hey now

["Jean T. Anderson" <jt...@apache.org>]

I can't resist adding that Danese did a keynote at ApacheCon Europe 
(July 2005) on "Strategic Commons: Open Source in the Developing World" 
and a dynamite lightening talk on women in open source that generated a 
ton of discussion that hasn't begun to die down yet (and that I hope 
doesn't die down).

  -jean

Danese Cooper wrote:
> And I'd also like to say hello.  I'm Danese Cooper and I've never  
> committed a line of code to Apache, but I was instrumental in helping  
> Jason Hunter negotiate the changes to JCP which have allowed Geronimo  
> and Harmony and I was listed by Geir as a sponsor of Harmony (mostly  
> because I read the early drafts of the proposal, I think) and I  worked 
> hard to convince the board that they should pay more attention  to even 
> application of the Contributor's Agreement.  I also advocated  for the 
> ASLv2.0 at OSI.  For the last 6+ years my paying job has been  
> "evangelism" of open source around the world (especially in the  
> developing world), and I've been on the board of the Open Source  
> Initiative since 2001.
> 
> I'm very glad we got this chance to talk with the rest of the women  
> currently @ apache dot org to see whether we can describe a common  goal 
> of a public women@ list.
> 
> Danese