[Kde-women]Who are you?

[Amelie Zapf]

Hi Eva, kde-women,

> The email address look really interesting... so what about doing a round of
> introductions? Who are you? 

A 27-year-old jazz pianist / studied physical chemist / turned Perl hacker 
out of Berlin, Germany. Actually, I don't have _very_ much to do with KDE. I 
joined this list, and also kde-devel because I wanted to spark a project that 
I alone cannot develop: because I'm working as a freelance musician, I'm in 
desperate need of a program that:
- has an interface to KOrganizer to keep track of dates
- has an interface to MySQL to maintain a musicians and customers database
- helps me keep track with invoices & stuff
- can do bookkeeping WITH the option of taking the VAT out by triple booking
  (is this the right word?).

Obviously, Perl/Tk is not the language of choice for that. But I did not have 
time to get down into Qt that much that I could swing it alone. Plus, I don't 
have the time. It may be an antitheton to Linux/KDE/Open Source, but what 
we're lacking most is business software. I'm maintaining a computer network 
for our small musicians collective here in Berlin (2 desktop computers, one 
web/mail/fax server/gateway, one file/scan server/audio/graphics, plus 2 
laptops, the whole thing running on SuSE and Debian Linuces, which I 
exclusively use some 6 hours a day.

I learned about Linux/KDE from a friend at university some four years ago and 
have used it ever since, picking up knowledge by myself, bit by bit. Hobbies 
outside of piano and computing: composition / reading / collecting and 
smoking pipes (odd for a woman ;-).

All the best to all of you,

Amy from Berlin

-- 
Louey & Amy
Soul, Jazz & Gospel from Berlin

www.louey-amy.de