Re: [opensuse-wiki] Why is this acceptable?

Sarah Julia Kriesch <ada.lovelace@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 01. Januar 2017 um 17:55 Uhr
>> Von: "PatrickD Garvey" <patrickdgarveyt@gmail.com>
>> An: "Sarah Julia Kriesch" <ada.lovelace@gmx.de>
>> Cc: "_openSUSE Wiki Mailing List - opensuse-wiki@opensuse.org" <opensuse-wiki@opensuse.org>
>> Betreff: Re: [opensuse-wiki] Why is this acceptable?
>>
>> Ms. Kriesch,
>>
>> Please let me try again to share the essence of my world view:
>>
>> Why do you use the character string "Sarah Julia Kriesch" in the From:
>> field of your email? Are you not free to use only the character string
>> "ada.lovelace@" and a domain name to make the email system properly
>> deliver your writing?
>>
>Why do you say "Ms. Kriesch"? We are a community and speak with our first names.
>I am a volunteer like you and I want to speak with you as an equal.
>
>Sarah Julia Kriesch is my real name and AdaLovelace my nick name in
>the community. Most Community Members are using their real names on
>mailing lists, just as I. I have a special email alias for openSUSE
>that it won't be mixed with private mails.
>
>I use another name as a nick name, because my education company
>wasn't allowed to know my contributions at openSUSE 5 years ago. They
>didn't want to see me in any open source communities. My online
>(community) friends said, I should use this nick name, because I
>would have the same CV like Ada Lovelace. She wasn't allowed to work
>in Computer Science and did it for her own. I did that (self-studying
>and with support in communities), too.

That's a really cool story behind the nickname ;-)

She was an amazing lady and (just in case anyone didn't know
already) arguably the first ever computer programmer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
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