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The first step of a long journey

I was very happy when I got the exciting news that I was chosen to be an OPW intern for Gnome. But soon, after recalling all the consideration I made before the application, I came to realize that there would be a long way for me to walk through. I ’ m a lucky bird in this round. In China, there are few brilliant women who ever know or are interested in things like Linux, Gnome, or other free  software . In Beijing ’ s BLUG (Beijing Linux User Group) for instance, it is very rare to see Chinese women there. This is a result of various culture or society blockings, that are hard to alter. What I could do to help, I believe, is to promote the free software I use, as the first step. That is my initial motivation of translating Gnome. There is a saying that  “ if you really want to do something, the help will come to you. ”  When I wanted to know about Gnome, I met the friends from an open source group called Opendrone, and they helped me. Then luckily I attended the Gnome Asia 20

Gnome Asia Summit 2013 in Seoul

The Gnome Asia Summit 2013, held in Seoul, which is the first time for me to get really into open source community. Meeting many Gnome fans, especially from different countries, really gives me  a window to experience different opinions.  Thanks for the Gnome Foundation to offer this chance for us. When we arrived, the first warm welcome from Max~~ Thank you~~  At the beginning of the summit, I was really impressed by the keynote speech from Karen Sandler. Her own story of meeting open source is really worth to be told. Which proved perfectly why we need opensource software, we are the one who have the right to decide things really matters, not the doctors, or big companies. Only when the source code is open, can we know what exactly we are choosing. After that, I enjoyed man various topics and different talking styles.  As a new one to gnome, learning some 101 lesson is really helpful. Talk from Bin Lin, who talked about the basics on developing Gnome shell plugins. We try ho