<html><head></head><body>Thank you for this lovely email Emma. And all my best + happy birthday to your sibling. We are far from alone. Regular people that just happen to be the way we are.<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
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Andrea<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On October 9, 2015 1:26:37 PM EDT, Emma Strong <eestrong118@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Thank you for sharing your story!! My sibling recently came out as a trans woman as well, and today is their (they prefer the neutral pronoun now) birthday, so seeing your story was just awesome :) And thank you for all you do for the OSGeo community!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Andrea Ross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrea.ross@eclipse.org" target="_blank">andrea.ross@eclipse.org</a>></span> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 09/10/15 13:04, Sandro Santilli wrote:<br />
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On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 11:11:06AM -0400, Andrea Ross wrote:<br />
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Dear Everyone,<br />
<br />
Please pardon me for those who already know this news.<br />
<br />
I participate quite a bit and have supported OSGeo initiatives since<br />
the early days (FWIW, I am a charter member since 2008), and it<br />
seems appropriate to share this here as well.<br />
<br />
If you please, it is my wish you call me Andrea<br />
<<a href="https://42aross.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/my-name-is-now-andrea/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://42aross.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/my-name-is-now-andrea/</a>><br />
from now on. Thank you.<br />
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Hey Andrea, that was a great read, thanks for being yourself !<br />
<br />
A fun thing is that "Andrea" in Italy is a male name (translation of<br />
Andrew) so it wasn't very clear from the subject what you were after).<br />
<br />
It's good to see female population growing in this community, btw :)<br />
<br />
--strk;<br />
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Thanks for your email Sandro. Yeah, I recognize that for a few parts of the world, Andrea is more typically a male name. Of course for quite a few it's typically a female name. I guess that's kind of a fitting name for me then. :-)<br />
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Kind regards,<br />
<br />
Andrea<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br />
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