Re: Itsfoss.com offer to be a media partner, travel and when will the CFP be open.

[shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 gmail com>]

On 21/04/2018, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 gmail com> wrote:

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> For doing so, while itsfoss.com isn't asking for any monetary compensation,
> I am and have asked for a partial travel sponsorship/bursary which will
> help recover some of the travel expenses, that comes to around USD800 for one
> way economy ticket from India to Taiwan . I have kept a bit of overhead as
> flight ticket prices be tricky to negotiate and the month I'll be traveling
> is travel season as far as India is concerned.
>
> While I've not contributed to GNOME in any meaningful way apart from
> putting up few bugs, commenting etc. I have been a free software
> advocate for more than a decade.
>
> Disclaimer - I do use mate though as it reminds me of gnome 2.0 and
> somehow that has been forever etched in my heart. I do know the
> reasons why GNOME has taken the new route though.
>
> As shared above, I am based in India and would like to be part of GNOME Asia
> if possible to cover GNOME on the two days.
>
> I was part of Debconf 2016
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-sqZFAkGxk
>
> and have again put few proposals for debconf this year as well.
>
> https://debconf18.debconf.org/
>
> Here are list of my contributions in free software world so far -
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?submitter=shirishag75 gmail com
>
> Have coordinated, participated in workshops about debian all over
> India since a decade and more.
>
> https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/tag/debian/
> https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/tag/events/
> https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/tag/debutsav/
> https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/tag/debconfindia/
> https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/tag/events/
>
> https://itsfoss.com/author/shirish/ (journalist here but more for newbie
> crowd) https://github.com/shirishag75 - upstream github contributions.(mostly
> tickets though of softwares I use) ,
>
> I have done few in mercurial and other VCS`s as well but nothing
> notable though.
>
> Another thing I wish to share. I had tried to hold a GNOME release party
> with couple of colleges in 2011 (GNOME 3.0) but was unable to hold due to
> the controversies surrounding the release (basically that it was a memory
> hog and lot of incompatible changes from GNOME 2.0)
>
> https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty/India/Pune
>
> In the college's defense, most colleges don't really have a full-time
> sys-admin or even if they have, (s)he's not paid properly, nor are her(is) needs
> for a proper hardware maintenance let alone have an  upgrade policy are there.
>
> I did distribute the buttons and swag at different events in and around Pune.
>
> And with the last few years, in most colleges VM's and containers are now a standard way to operate things.

The thing is, most of the times the VM themselves are either
configured shoddily or the hardware specs. allocated to the colleges
labs. are not in tune with the requirements
of having a VM in the first place. Add to that most experiments are
now mandated to be done in the VM space to reduce sysadmin overhead.

> I dunno if the engagement-list is the best place or not to have these kind
> of  discussions, but at least can give a shout-out as to how things are here.

I do have another query  however,

I have looked at some potential topics for an RFP but dunno whether they would
be suitable for GNOME or not,  some may be more in the privacy userspace
while others may be more in usability area.

Is there possibility to connect with somebody once the CFP to open to fine-tune
or/and talk about topics I hop to propose in a secure manner.

I do understand that talking/discussing topics, their relevancy etc.
does not mean
that the talk itself would be approved but might just give me some idea on the
relevancy of what I propose or how I can change it to fit better with GNOME's
norms.

I do not know if such a resource exists.

> Looking forward to know more.

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          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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