Linux.com: Portrait: LinuxChix Brazil's Sulamita Garcia | Linux Today

Linux.com: Portrait: LinuxChix Brazil’s Sulamita Garcia

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 13, 2007

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“A lot of people have bemoaned the lack of women participating
in open source communities, but Sulamita Garcia is one of the few
who have stepped up to do something about it. A Slackware user from
Florianopolis, Brazil, Garcia has been heading up LinuxChix Brazil
for four years.

“Garcia has been involved with Linux and open source software
since 1999, when she was at university finishing a computer science
degree and was tasked with testing asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)
cards in a Linux system…”


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