introduction

[Katie Capps Parlante <ca...@osafoundation.org>]

Hi, I'm Katie Parlante, a programmer and dev manager at OSAF working on 
Chandler, an open source personal information manager (calendar, tasks, 
contacts, email, etc.). I work with Ted Leung (his day job at OSAF) and 
was on a panel with Danese at a conference about women and computing.

I sort of fell into open source by joining OSAF -- my original passion 
was cool interfaces that work well for users. I'm really glad I did, 
though I must admit that the 2% female/male ratio on your average open 
source project is a bit sobering. I'm personally interested in the 
intersection between good UI design and open source projects, and the 
intersection between getting women involved in technology and open 
source projects.

As a young open source project, we at OSAF have been talking a lot about 
how to become a thriving open community. We look to Apache as a source 
of good ideas. Given these interests, this list seems like an 
interesting set of people to talk to.

Cheers,
Katie