[OSGeo-Discuss] My name is now Andrea

[Andrea Ross]

Thanks Jachym, done! :-)

On 10/10/15 09:12, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
>
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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