las-gnome Fwd: LAS GNOME | Speaker Bio Request

[meg ford <megford gnome org>]

Hi,

Here are Asheesh Laroia's Bio and photo for the website.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh sandstorm io>
Date: Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: Tentatively, I'd be happy to talk about GNOME at LAS GNOME, or find someone else who can
To: meg ford <megford gnome org>
Cc: community <community sandstorm io>

Pic: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/571431512818450432/5l7xV_KE.jpeg

For bio: Do you have advice on length? Here is an attempt.

Asheesh Laroia likes to focus on free software outreach and incentives. His career path, including Creative Commons and a university outreach program to teach open source participation, emphasizes bringing free software ideals to new generations and stakeholders. His hobbies have included bringing the Boston Python user group from 2% women to 20% women, distributing inflatable pink flamingos, and reviewing Debian packages from new contributors. He lives in San Francisco working on community and software engineering at Sandstorm, an open source self-hostable web app suite that welcomes new contributions.

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh sandstorm io> wrote:

Oops. Yes. Sorry this took me a month. Doing this now.

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 5:27 PM, meg ford <megford gnome org> wrote:

Hi Asheesh,

Can you send me a bio and a photo for the website at your earliest convenience? 

Thanks,

Meg

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh sandstorm io> wrote:

I have done that double-checking and it would be OK! Keep me posted.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh sandstorm io> wrote:

Hi Meg! OK, sure, tentatively I can talk at that. I think it'd be fun. I'll have to double-check with my supervisor at Sandstorm to make sure I can take the time to do so.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 3:35 PM, meg ford <megford gnome org> wrote:

Hi Asheesh,

On Tuesday, April 26, 2016, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh sandstorm io> wrote:

I know you pinged me on IRC about this, so I thought I'd just reply by email.

Is it important to you that it be me (since it's an "invited speaker" thing), or is it OK if it's someone else active in the Sandstorm community? Either way is OK, I just thought I'd ask.

A different speaker is fine as long as they are somewhat experienced. We're looking for someone to talk about sandstorm in the context of the Linux application ecosystem. So the exact topic is really your choice. LAS GNOME has a broader focus than GUADEC, and GNOME's role in the conference is to act as a leader in the larger ecosystem. 

Also, what are the (tentative?) dates?

Right now we are working on securing funding, and we will know in the next few weeks whether the conference is a go for sure. Assuming it is, the dates will be September 19 to 21 at the Eliot center in Portland. 

Cheers,

Meg