[OSGeo-Discuss] My name is now Andrea

[Jachym Cepicky]

hi Andrea, thank you for sharing this great news with us. As secretary, I
would like to ask you to update your OSGeo wiki profile [1] too :-)

jachym

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aross

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015, 03:15 Andrea Ross <andrea.ross at eclipse.org> wrote:

> 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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