[OSGeo-Discuss] My name is now Andrea

[Andrea Ross]

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.

Kind regards,

Andrea

On October 9, 2015 1:26:37 PM EDT, Emma Strong <eestrong118 at gmail.com> wrote:
>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!
>
>On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Andrea Ross <andrea.ross at eclipse.org>
>wrote:
>
>> On 09/10/15 13:04, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 11:11:06AM -0400, Andrea Ross wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Everyone,
>>>>
>>>> Please pardon me for those who already know this news.
>>>>
>>>> I participate quite a bit and have supported OSGeo initiatives
>since
>>>> the early days (FWIW, I am a charter member since 2008), and it
>>>> seems appropriate to share this here as well.
>>>>
>>>> If you please, it is my wish you call me Andrea
>>>> <https://42aross.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/my-name-is-now-andrea/>
>>>> from now on. Thank you.
>>>>
>>> Hey Andrea, that was a great read, thanks for being yourself !
>>>
>>> A fun thing is that "Andrea" in Italy is a male name (translation of
>>> Andrew) so it wasn't very clear from the subject what you were
>after).
>>>
>>> It's good to see female population growing in this community, btw :)
>>>
>>> --strk;
>>>
>>>
>> 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. :-)
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Andrea
>>
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