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Re: Question for candidates


----- Original Message -----

From: "Ekaterina Gerasimova" <kittykat3756 gmail com>
To: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" <marinaz redhat com>
Cc: "foundation-list" <foundation-list gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 9:12:35 AM
Subject: Re: Question for candidates

On 20 May 2014 01:55, Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com> wrote:

----- Original Message -----

From: "Max" <sakanamax gmail com>
To: "foundation-list" <foundation-list gnome org>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 9:18:33 PM
Subject: Question for candidates

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 ?


The GNOME.Asia team is doing a fantastic job organizing the conference and
it will undoubtedly boost the interest in GNOME. It would be great to have
meetups of people working on GNOME and free software in Beijing throughout
the year, so that more people who learned about GNOME at the conference
are interested in travelling to the next year's location.


Local meetups are a great idea and have proven to be popular when
organised, even if only for "GNOME Beers" around releases. As the
question is about plans for the future, how are you planning to help
this happen?


I would generally just like to encourage people to organize these locally. Meg Ford's blog is a great source 
of inspiration and ideas on what to do to foster a local community, as she and Jim Campbell started the 
Chicagoan Hacking on GNOME group. One of the findings she made was for a larger turn-out, it's good to have 
broader events that include hacking on various free software projects.

http://fordmeg.blogspot.com/

For running newcomers workshops, I already recommended OpenHatch resources and GNOME Newcomers Workshop and 
Tutorial resources, which I created. I'd like to invite people to help out with the Newcomers Workshop at 
GUADEC and then replicate it locally.

Myself and the board are available to answer any questions about hosting local events.




---- Central event management system for both GUADEC and GNOME.Asia?( I
saw
it last GUADEC but not start to use)


I created a new "activities to track" page for the board and added it
there. We will find out what is going on with it and encourage
development.


There are many issues that the board tracks and works on, why do you
think that the board should take over the tracking of this rather than
let those who created it (OPW interns and mentors) and those who would
benefit from it (GUADEC and GNOME.Asia organisers) keep track?


This relates to organizing events, which is one of the key functions of the Foundation the board needs to 
facilitate.



Given that the board rarely interferes in development, how do you
propose to encourage further work on this project?


This particular project is an infrastructure project, rather than GNOME technology development project. Even 
with GNOME technology projects, it's sometimes appropriate for the board to get involved to encourage 
development, such as in the areas of privacy and accessibility, for which we had fundraising campaigns.

For this work, we can ask people who worked on the system about their availability to continue the work 
and/or ask them to make a call on Planet GNOME for new volunteers, along with the explanation of the work 
that has been done and that yet needs to be done. If no volunteers step up, the board can investigate 
allocating resources to this project.




---- Other idea?


-- Google Summer of code / Outreach Program for Women
---- What's your plan for GsoC and OPW in Asia?


We should continue to provide materials and encouragement for past OPW and
GSoC participants to run introduction to free software / GNOME / GSoC /
OPW sessions and host meetups in their cities throughout the year, so that
we have more applicants from Asia applying for these programs who have
experience contributing to free software. There are materials available
for OpenHatch "Open Source Comes to Campus" and GNOME Newcomers Workshop,
which can be used for such events.


---- How many country get GsoC / OPW in Asia? What's your plan for promote
it
with more country in Asia?


Of 39 interns GNOME has this summer, 14 are from India, 1 from China, and 1
from Philippines. As I mentioned above, we need to encourage these people
and other community members to promote the internship programs and help
people become contributors before they apply.


-- 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 )


There is https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeWorldWide , which we can encourage
people to fill out. There are also translators, whose information you can
get from Git or on https://l10n.gnome.org/teams/. Also there are
localization and regional mailing lists.


---- How do we get these member / resource together?


I think you already do a lot of this by organizing GNOME.Asia! Perhaps you
can have a BoF at the conference to figure out what are the resources you
want to put together and what are the activities you want to see happen.


-- Are you interesting to involve Asia event? and how do you involve?


The GNOME Foundation sponsored Sindhu to go to FOSSASIA this year, where
she ran contributing to GNOME workshop, did a talk about documentation,
and participated in a panel about women in IT. We should have more people
proposing talks and going to FOSSASIA next year. We should also have
people proposing talks and going to LinuxCon Japan. Identifying and
participating in any other free software conferences in Asia would be
great.


-- Anything you plan with Asia.


Thanks for all the great questions! I'm excited about growing our presence
in Asia and I'm sure we will succeed.

Marina




GNOME.Asia team member


Max Huang







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