Re: Question for candidates

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

On 19 May 2014 18:55, Andrea Veri <av gnome org> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2014, Max wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
>
> Hey Max!
>
> > 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)
>
> That would hit another language barrier though which mainly relates to
> the fact none of the current mentors are Chinese speakers. Max, did
> you try interacting with any local university already? if yes, is
> there anyone (both english and chinese speaker) who might be
> willing to mentor a chinese-speaking student during one of the next OPW
> rounds?
>
> > -- GNOME Foundation member in Asia?
> > ---- How do we know our other member in Asia?( I suggest tobi last year, if
> > they want to fill their country when foundation member renew or new )
> > ---- How do we get these member / resource together?
>
> I'm not sure whether adding a "country" field on the foundation
> database would be enough to achieve the proposed goal given someone
> might just decide to not specify that information at all (for
> protecting the privacy for example), additionally there is no real
> need for the Membership Committee (and the Foundation generally) to
> know where a contributor is based. But that's not all the Committee is
> very busy lately and increasing the information to manage for each
> single member would not be ideal. (I'm also sure the "country" field
> would become inconsistent within a few months from it being introduced
> for the simple fact someone might just forget to send an update to the
> committee specifying he just moved to a new country)
>
> What we can probably do is populating the "apply" form some more
> including more information about how new or existing members can reach
> their localized communities. (by suggesting the new member to
> subscribe to gnome-CC-list gnome org (Country Code) for example or if
> missing to ask the creation of a new list in case that specific community
> is growing in number)
>
> > -- Are you interesting to involve Asia event? and how do you involve?
> >
> > -- Anything you plan with Asia.
>
> I've not been following very closely what the current situation for
> GNOME.Asia is but Dave and Kat's emails clearly state the Foundation
> is totally oriented on improving the current situation for the next
> term and they will be personally there at the upcoming event to
> instruct participants on the multiple ways to be engaged to the GNOME
> project as contributors.
>
> Max, how much the events that were organized and sponsored by the
> GNOME Foundation did benefit the Asia region as a whole? how many new
> contributors joined your ranks? what do you think could help you
> improve the organization of the GNOME.Asia event?

There were no funding requests to the current board for organisation
of events in Asia, with the exception of GNOME.Asia. There was one
request for attendance to a non-GNOME conference, where a talk about
GNOME was given.

> During the past GUADEC we discussed the creation of an additional
> planet to aggregate all the chinese-speaking feeds to help
> non-english-speaking contributors to be aware of what's going on
> behind the scenes of events like GNOME.Asia but generally any other
> initiative happening in that area (the Planet GNOME rules currently
> disallow localized content to be posted and while that keeps the
> planet polished from mixed content to be published it also restricts
> non-english-speakers to read it), do you think such addition would
> still make sense? if yes, do you have a list of feeds to aggregate
> there already? is a planet really needed or would a news feed on the
> GNOME.Asia website be enough for the goal?
>
> It's just awesome how deeply you care about GNOME and expanding its
> horizons to Asia. Thanks for your contributions Max!
>
> [1] https://github.com/openSUSE/osem
>
> --
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrea
>
> Debian Developer,
> Fedora / EPEL packager,
> GNOME Sysadmin Team Coordinator,
> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
>
> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av
>
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