Re: Question for candidates

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

Hi Max!

On 19 May 2014 02:18, Max <sakanamax gmail com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks for run the board.
> This is the most busy time for GNOME.Asia summit(4 days to go).
> GNOME.Asia team and Beijing team are busy for the summit.
>
> My question to all of you:
>
> * What's your plan for "Promote / Growth GNOME in Asia"
> -- GNOME.Asia summit ?
> ---- Central event management system for both GUADEC and GNOME.Asia?(  I saw
> it last GUADEC but not start to use)
> ---- Other idea?

One of the core duties of the board is to enable our members to
promote GNOME. To this effect, I will aim to ensure that the
Foundation has more to spend on events and outreach in the upcoming
year and to make sure that funding for our conferences is secured as
early as possible, making it easier for organisers to plan ahead and
maximise attendance. The latter is something that I already started to
work on in 2013 through my involvement in GUADEC organisation and this
is something that the local teams can help with.

With this in mind, if the community is not aware that the board can
offer them support in promoting GNOME in their local areas, then this
is something that the Foundation should improve on. I will cover what
I do personally in the rest of my reply as I feel that that is more
relevant to the questions.

> -- Google Summer of code / Outreach Program for Women
> ---- What's your plan for GsoC and OPW in Asia?
> ---- How many country get GsoC / OPW in Asia? What's your plan for promote
> it with more country in Asia?

Many of the applicants for GSoC and OPW are already from Asia and
especially from India. I think that the split is largely related to
English being a commonly spoken language in India, but not so
prominent in other Asian countries. While many of the GNOME core
developers are located in Europe and North America, the number of
contributors in Asia is on a par with those in Europe and North
America as we have many translators there.

I have mentored in a number of OPW rounds, taking on interns from
Asia, who have gone on to do outreach in their local areas. This has
helped raise awareness of the contribution opportunities in GNOME and
the documentation team have seen people come to the team saying that
that was how they found out about us. I think that helping past
interns become part of the community and encouraging them to reach out
to others in their areas and in turn to mentor future interns is
essential for the programs to succeed in the long term.

Everyone is welcome to promote both internship opportunities in their
local areas and the organising teams would be happy to help with
information. Incidentally, the OPW organising team is looking for more
people to join it right now, which is a good way to become involved in
outreach.

> -- GNOME Foundation member in Asia?
> ---- How do we know our other member in Asia?( I suggest tobi last year, if
> they want to fill their country when foundation member renew or new )
> ---- How do we get these member / resource together?
>
> -- Are you interesting to involve Asia event? and how do you involve?
>
> -- Anything you plan with Asia.

I will be attending GNOME.Asia this weekend where the documentation
team will be running a training session to teach newcomers how to make
a contribution. I will make sure that all of the materials are
publicly available for others to learn from them.

I have also encouraged a number of the translation teams to organise
hackfests when there was funding available last year, and to involve
newcomers as well as to take on interns.

I am hoping to be able to talk to GNOME contributors at GNOME.Asia and
to encourage those who are not Foundation members to apply for
membership.


Looking forward to GNOME.Asia,
Kat

> GNOME.Asia team member
>
>
> Max Huang
>
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