Re: [GNOME-India] Building a community

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 8:44 AM, anish patil <anish developer gmail com> wrote:
> Hi Sriram!
>
> Thank you for initiating :)
> We were planning to have hackfest,
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/India2013
> May be we should create a new page now

Yeah, please do!  Let's do this! :)

sri

> Thanks,
> Anish P.
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>
> wrote:
> > On Aug 30, 2014 11:31 PM, "Pranav Kant" <pranav913 gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > I am not sure what kind of activities I can conduct to promote GNOME
> > > except the beginner workshop where they will be finding and reporting bugs.
> >
> > You could also talk about GTK+ and how to write beautiful HIG developed
> > apps?
> >
> > > People here would be quite interested in learning something new. Any
> > > suggestions are welcome. Can I ask for some resources from the GNOME
> > > Foundation also ?
> >
> > Certainly! Let the board know what you are organizing and how much it will
> > cost.
> >
> > Sri
> >
> >
> > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Nagarjuna G <nagarjun gnowledge org>
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 30 Aug 2014 11:18:53 PM Arun Raghavan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi Sriram,
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > > On 30 Aug 2014 22:51, "Sriram Ramkrishna" <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > Hey folks! I thought I would send a welcome email, and start a
> > > > > > thread
> > > >
> > > > > > on how to build an active community in India.
> > > >
> > > > > >
> > > >
> > > > > > As a start, let's try to agree upon the goals. Part of this
> > > >
> > > > > > incorporates our mission, spreading Free Software.
> > > >
> > > > > >
> > > >
> > > > > > * Foster greater acceptance of Free Software in all sectors
> > > >
> > > > > > * Creating a dynamic and enthusiastic GNOME community across India
> > > >
> > > > > > that is open to everyone regardless of background, gender, culture,
> > > >
> > > > > > and sexual identity
> > > >
> > > > > >
> > > >
> > > > > > I didn't put anything in marketing GNOME. If we achieve the second
> > > >
> > > > > > objective, we get that for free, I think. I'm more interested in
> > > >
> > > > > > people and community and generating enthusiasm. I want to build
> > > >
> > > > > > momentum.
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Thanks for kicking this off. I've been thinking a bit about how we
> > > > > can get
> > > >
> > > > > get the GNOME community in India active again these last few days, so
> > > > > great
> > > >
> > > > > timing. :-)
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > > I think what would be nice, and relatively easy to do, is a small
> > > > > GNOME
> > > >
> > > > > hackfest. Nothing too formal or elaborate, but a place where the
> > > > > local
> > > >
> > > > > developer and user community can get together and plot world
> > > > > dom^W^W^W just
> > > >
> > > > > hang out. Maybe pick up some ideas or bugs to hack on / discuss while
> > > > > we're
> > > >
> > > > > there. Could probably pick a weekend or so in November/December.
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I suggest you propose a track in this conference to be held in
> > > > Trivandrum 18 to 20 December:
> > > >
> > > > http://icfoss.in/fs2014.html
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -
> > > >
> > > > GN
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Pranav Kant,
> > > Department of Computer Science
> > > National Institute of Technology Hamirpur
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