Re: Question for candidates

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

Hi Andrea,

On 19 May 2014 18:55, Andrea Veri <av gnome org> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2014, Max wrote:
> > My question to all of you:
> >
> > * What's your plan for "Promote / Growth GNOME in Asia"
> > -- GNOME.Asia summit ?
> > ---- Central event management system for both GUADEC and GNOME.Asia?(  I
> > saw it last GUADEC but not start to use)
> > ---- Other idea?
>
> Two OPW interns have been working for several months to provide a
> valid event management system for all the major GNOME events. The
> software is currently based on OSEM (the Open Source Event Manager
> [1]) and a test-bed is privately available on one of our testing
> machines at OSUOSL. Part of the upcoming GUADEC organizers have been
> granted access to the istance, if you are missing access to it please
> let me know.
>
> We should definitely find out what has gone wrong with it and why it
> has not been declared ready for production yet. I will make sure to
> follow-up on this as one of my goals for the next term if elected.
>
> > -- Google Summer of code / Outreach Program for Women
> > ---- What's your plan for GsoC and OPW in Asia?
> > ---- How many country get GsoC / OPW in Asia? What's your plan for promote
> > it with more country in Asia?
>
> While OPW has had a great success in India (thanks to english being
> widely spoken there) it did not have the same success on other Asia
> regions probably because of the language barrier. What we can probably
> do is localizing the content of the OPW flyer so that more women can
> be aware of the Outreach Program for Women and apply for it. (I will
> make sure to discuss about this with Marina if elected and propose the
> idea to the relevant localization team)

Both of the above seem to be something which can be done now and does
not require you to be on the board. Why do you say that you would need
to be elected to the board to do these?