Note that I am not trying to discourage you here - it is great that you are interested in going out of your academics and attending international conferences. However IMHO, getting basic knowledge does not necessitate you to bear this expense and go to this kind of a conference, at least not yet. You can spend a similar budget much more frugally and attend a lot more software conferences (both open source or otherwise) in India if you ask me. However I can be wrong too, so I'll wait to see if others have any interesting perspectives about this - this is why I've taken this mail off-list.(Taking this off-list again)If your intention is to learn more about FOSS and getting involved in open source projects, there are much simpler and cheaper ways to get started. There should be conferences/fests in India as well that you can attend much more easily (for e.g. https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/India2013 although the dates are yet TBC)
Kesha,
I do not deny that attending an international level conference in person can be a very enriching experience. However there needs to be a cost-benefit analysis to ensure that you are getting that much in return. Even if I convince my company to sponsor 50% of your travel costs (and I'm not yet promising that yet, it's not my decision alone), you still will have to find rest of it (something like another Rs. 35k) for the flight return tickets. On top of that, visas need to be arranged, and I don't know whether the organizers of the conference will help you with that. I see that the GNome conference is around 13 days away, that leaves a very short window to work out all the logistics.
Do call me on 09663230314, if you feel like speaking about this.Thanks.Best Regards,
RoopeshOn Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Kesha Shah <kesha shah1106 gmail com> wrote:Hi Roopesh,-Regarding the size of sponsorship, I would be great if I can get travel support.-I believe in-person meeting, having interactions and attending will have a huge impact over webinars.-Sure. This was one of the things in my mind like adding support to Hindi and small Hindi alphabet recognization and playing activity.Also, in the joining different province to make a country activity which exist now (oops ! I cant recall the name), I also thought of adding Indian states- this will make small Indian kids recognize different states, where it is located, how many are there etc.With a little more effort, if we can include capital of every state that would also be great !An actiivity regarding recipes of Indian dishes will also be cool :)
These are few which involves adding activities specific to Indian audience.Best Regards,--On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:50 PM, roopesh shenoy <shenoy roopesh gmail com> wrote:
Hey Kesha- What is the size of sponsorship you are looking for?
Few questions -
- Is it necessary to attend this conference instead of viewing webinars or using other online media?
- Would you be interested in an internship that involves adding activities specific to Indian audience to a GCompris fork? (we would contribute the patches upstream but whether they get accepted or not will depend on the project owner Bruno)
Thanks.Best Regards,
RoopeshOn Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Kesha Shah <kesha shah1106 gmail com> wrote:
--Hi all,
I am an undergraduate student at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information
and Communication Technology. I have known the FOSS culture and Open source
organizations since past 8 months and love it.
I belong to a university, where there are brilliant coders and students
with great potentials, but there are few who have got in-depth knowledge
about open source, how anyone can become a part of it and there exists many
misconceptions about it. I have read up how Gnome supports
new contributes and coders and encourages them and I really like it.
This is often considered as a male-dominated field, where hardly women are
aware of it. To increase the awareness among women in software development,
hats off to programs like Outreach Program for Women. I was unfortunate to
hear about it after the deadline elasped and couldn't participate in it but
fortunate enough to know its hand in hand another program- Google Summer of
Code and be a part of it.
Amongst the 17 students selected from our university this year, I am the
only girl student. None of my female batchmates or female seniors present
at college have got the same opportunity as me. Many of my batchmates,
juniors and friends ask me how do I start. I do explain them to the best I
can, but still I feel something is lacked and I can't guide them 100%.
I use Gnome and its various softwares. One of them, I feel more attached
with is GCompris. My younger sister loves it and plays it all day long. I
have many plans in head for its improvement. I have downloaded its source
but had got no time to hack upon it due to current project. I plan working
for it after september and do a full time project for its improvement and
adding new activities.
I am willing to attend GUADEC 2013 to learn more about Gnome, involve my
fellow batchmates, junior and friends and also for myself to contribute to
it. I want to meet this awesome community and wonderful people from it, but
I am in financial crisis. It would be great if I can get some sponsership
so that I can attend this conference and bridge the gap.
I am interested in many talks which includes First Step Towards
Contributing, Gnome in Open Source Community, Gnome Outreach from Three
Point zero to Hero,FLOSS community outreaches, Outreach Preogram for
Women-Lessons in Collaboration, Foss & Education. I am also willing to
volunteer, if given an opportunity to come which may smooth the management
and I can get to help this awesome community :)
I know it has been too long, but thanks for spending you time and reading
it :)
Best Regards,
Kesha Shah.
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