[GNOME-India] Fwd: GNOME.Asia Summit 2016: Call for participation is now open!

[Arun Raghavan <arun accosted net>]

For those of oyu who aren't on foundation-list, here we go!


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From: Arun Raghavan <arun accosted net>
Date: 20 January 2016 at 18:23
Subject: GNOME.Asia Summit 2016: Call for participation is now open!
To: "foundation-list gnome org" <foundation-list gnome org>


The GNOME.Asia Summit 2016 team invites proposals for presentations at
the conference. GNOME.Asia Summit is Asia's GNOME user and developer
conference, with the goal of spreading GNOME across Asia and encouraging
contributions by everyone. The conference will be held at the Manav
Rachna International University, Faridabad, Delhi (NCR), India from
April 21st to 24th, 2016.

This year's event will follow the release of GNOME 3.20 and will be a
great place to celebrate and explore the many new features and
enhancements in this release, as well as potential work for the next
release.

We welcome proposals by newcomers and experienced speakers alike. Please
submit them at: http://2016.gnome.asia/cfp/submission/

Possible topics include, but not limited to:

Contributing to GNOME's success in Asia:
  How to Promote/Contribute to GNOME in Asia
  GNOME Marketing
  How to run a Local GNOME Users Group
  Asia success stories / Local GNOME Projects
  GNOME and Education

Contributing to GNOME projects:
  Usability
  GNOME Human Interface Engineering (Icons and Graphic
Design)
  Hacking on or with GNOME
  Latest developments in GNOME
  QA and testing in GNOME
  GNOME Accessibility
  Writing applications for GNOME 3

Taking GNOME to new places:
  Developing GNOME on mobile devices (smart phones, tablets)
  Developing GNOME on embedded systems or open source hardware
  On-going projects and success stories
  Localization and Internationalization
  Translations
  Input methods
  Fonts

A standard session will be scheduled as 45 mins (35 mins talk + 10 mins
Q&A). The session could be a technical talk, panel discussion, or BOF.
If you need more time or additional resources, feel free to get in touch
with the organising team.

For participants who would like to participate, but are not sure they'd
like to do a full talk proposal, we have shorter lighting talks. These
are a five minute presentation to demonstrate your work or promote an
interesting topic. These talks will be grouped together in a single
session.

Please provide a short abstract of your proposal (under 150 words).
Include your name, biographical information, a photo suitable for the
web, a title, and a description of your presentation. The reviewing team
will evaluate the entries based on the submitted abstracts and available
time in the following schedule.

Submission deadline: Feb 16, 2016
Confirmation of paper acceptance: Feb 23, 2016

All interested contributors are highly encouraged to send in their
talks.  Please help us to spread the invitation to other potential
participants. Even you do not plan to be a speaker, please consider
joining GNOME.Asia 2016. This is going to be a great event!

Again, you can submit your proposal at: http://2016.gnome.asia/cfp/submission/

We're looking forward to seeing you there!

The GNOME.Asia 2016 Team