Re: Question for candidates

[Max <sakanamax gmail com>]

Dear Andrea

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 1:55 AM, Andrea Veri <av gnome org> wrote:

On Mon, 19 May 2014, Max wrote:

> Hi everyone,

Hey Max!

> 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?

Two OPW interns have been working for several months to provide a
valid event management system for all the major GNOME events. The
software is currently based on OSEM (the Open Source Event Manager
[1]) and a test-bed is privately available on one of our testing
machines at OSUOSL. Part of the upcoming GUADEC organizers have been
granted access to the istance, if you are missing access to it please
let me know.

Yes, I am missing access ^^

 

We should definitely find out what has gone wrong with it and why it
has not been declared ready for production yet. I will make sure to
follow-up on this as one of my goals for the next term if elected.

> -- 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?

While OPW has had a great success in India (thanks to english being
widely spoken there) it did not have the same success on other Asia
regions probably because of the language barrier. What we can probably
do is localizing the content of the OPW flyer so that more women can
be aware of the Outreach Program for Women and apply for it. (I will
make sure to discuss about this with Marina if elected and propose the
idea to the relevant localization team)

That would hit another language barrier though which mainly relates to
the fact none of the current mentors are Chinese speakers. Max, did
you try interacting with any local university already? if yes, is

Yes, I try interacting with local University, and I think Beijing team and other GNOME Users Group in Asia do too.

 

there anyone (both english and chinese speaker) who might be
willing to mentor a chinese-speaking student during one of the next OPW
rounds?

I think we could discuss more with other mentors, the point is "They really don't know how to start and which is start point".

There might be need "GNOME Love" for both english and chinese speakers who is first time to be a mentor.

^__^

 

Max, how much the events that were organized and sponsored by the
GNOME Foundation did benefit the Asia region as a whole? how many new
contributors joined your ranks? what do you think could help you
improve the organization of the GNOME.Asia event?

Good point, Andrea ^^

I just check the 

Events - GNOME Wiki

https://wiki.gnome.org/Events

* for GNOME community google schedule https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src="" group calendar google com, who have the permission to add the event?

I only see the GUADE and Beijing GUG meeting and Taiwan GUG meeting.

In Taiwan, we have "Taiwan Open Source" Calendar

https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src="" group calendar google com

You could see the Mozilla, Pycon APAC and other Linux Users Group .....activities.

Taiwan OSSF(Open Source Software Foundry) news will list and mail community event, it's good to remind people to join or where to find an event to join.

http://www.openfoundry.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9219&Itemid=4;isletter=1

I think we might be do some event list more detail like openSUSE:Advocates events

http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_events

 

During the past GUADEC we discussed the creation of an additional
planet to aggregate all the chinese-speaking feeds to help
non-english-speaking contributors to be aware of what's going on
behind the scenes of events like GNOME.Asia but generally any other
initiative happening in that area (the Planet GNOME rules currently
disallow localized content to be posted and while that keeps the
planet polished from mixed content to be published it also restricts
non-english-speakers to read it), do you think such addition would
still make sense?

I think that is make sense to non-english speakers to read it, at least you will know somebody is moving. Who care about that.

 

if yes, do you have a list of feeds to aggregate
there already? is a planet really needed or would a news feed on the
GNOME.Asia website be enough for the goal?

If everyone think that is a good idea, we could beg the GNOME foundation member in Asia first, provide their non-english feed.

(I have 2 blogs, one for English and the other one is Chinese, but most case, I write the Chinese one  XD )

 

It's just awesome how deeply you care about GNOME and expanding its
horizons to Asia. Thanks for your contributions Max!

[1] https://github.com/openSUSE/osem

Thanks Andrea

 

--

Cheers,

Andrea

Debian Developer,
Fedora / EPEL packager,
GNOME Sysadmin Team Coordinator,
GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman

Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av