Re: Draft CfP

[Arun Raghavan <arun accosted net>]

Whoops, that makes sense, of course. Updated the version I had and put
it up on the Etherpad:

https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/gnome-asia-cfp-2016

Regards,
Arun

On 15 January 2016 at 09:50, Emily Chen <emilychen522 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi Arun,
>
> This is great.
>
> We need to mention the deadline of the call for paper, and one week after,
> we will contact people who has been accepted.
>
> How about adding:
> Submission deadline: Feb 16, 2016
> Confirmation on paper acceptance: Feb 23, 2016
>
> I choose Tuesday, because we will have IRC meeting on Tuesday night.
>
> -Emily
>
>
>
> 2016-01-14 17:20 GMT+08:00 Arun Raghavan <arun accosted net>:
> > Hi folks,
> > Please find a draft CfP below. It is based quite heavily on last year's
> > version. Please provide suggestions/feedback.
> >
> > ----
> > GNOME.Asia Summit 2016: Call for participation is now open!
> >
> > The GNOME.Asia Summit 2016 team invites proposals for presentations at
> > the conference. GNOME.Asia Summit is Asia's GNOME user and developer
> > conference, with the goal of spreading GNOME across Asia and
> > encouraging contributions by everyone. The conference will be held at
> > the Manav Rachna International University, New Delhi, India from April
> > 21st to 24th, 2016.
> >
> > This year's event will follow the release of GNOME 3.20 and will be a
> > great place to celebrate and explore the many new features and
> > enhancements in this release, as well as potential work for the next
> > release.
> >
> > We welcome proposals by newcomers and experienced speakers alike.
> >
> > Possible topics include, but not limited to:
> >
> > Contributing to GNOME's success in Asia:
> >   How to Promote/Contribute to GNOME in Asia
> >   GNOME Marketing
> >   How to run a Local GNOME Users Group
> >   Asia success stories / Local GNOME Projects
> >   GNOME and Education
> >
> > Contributing to GNOME projects:
> >   Usability
> >   GNOME Human Interface Engineering (Icons and Graphic
> > Design)
> >   Hacking on or with GNOME
> >   Latest developments in GNOME
> >   QA and testing in GNOME
> >   GNOME Accessibility
> >   Writing applications for GNOME 3
> >
> > Taking GNOME to new places:
> >   Developing GNOME on mobile devices (smart phones, tablets)
> >   Developing GNOME on embedded systems or open source hardware
> >   On-going projects and success stories
> >   Localization and Internationalization
> >   Translations
> >   Input methods
> >   Fonts
> >
> > A standard session will be scheduled as 45 mins (35 mins talk + 10 mins
> > Q&A). The session could be a technical talk, panel discussion, or BOF.
> > If you need more time or additional resources, feel free to get in
> > touch with the organising team.
> >
> > For participants who would like to participate, but are not sure they'd
> > like to do a full talk proposal, we have shorter lighting talks. These
> > are a five minute presentation to demonstrate your work or promote an
> > interesting topic. These talks will be grouped together in a single
> > session.
> >
> > Please provide a short abstract of your proposal (under 150 words).
> > Include your name, biographical information, a photo suitable for the
> > web, a title, and a description of your presentation. The reviewing
> > team will evaluate the entries based on the submitted abstracts and
> > available time in the schedule. You will be contacted before February
> > 21st, 2016 on whether your submission has been accepted or not.
> >
> > All interested contributors are highly encouraged to send in their
> > talks.  Please help us to spread the invitation to other potential
> > participants. Even you do not plan to be a speaker, please consider
> > joining GNOME.Asia 2016. This is going to be a great event!
> >
> > [Proposal submission link goes here]
> > ----
> >
> > Regards,
> > Arun
> > _______________________________________________
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