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[Max <sakanamax gmail com>]

Welcome Siska!!
Thanks for your host in GNOME.Asia Summit ^^

Thanks for plan GNOME party and class

^___^


Max

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Siska Iskandar <seattle bray gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Let me introduce myself first. My name is Siska Restu Anggraeny Iskandar,
> but you can call me Siska for short. I was born in Banjar, West Java,
> Indonesia and grew up in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is a different province
> with different culture and language. I am currently in last year of Bachelor
> Degree with Informatics Engineering majoing in State Islamic University
> Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta.
>
> In May 2015, I join and help GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 and become local
> organizer of that event. If you are there, probably you see me, I am the one
> who hold mic all day. I am the MC :D. [0]
>
> My journey with open-source began in 2009 when I got into Vocational High
> School with Computer Engineering and Networking. We got Networking Subject
> which is we should getting know RedHat and Fedora, and etc.
>
> In the first year of my university,  I find digital or technology term is
> common thing in my life. Being an IT student give me a rapid update about
> its technology, but how about our social environment? Technology has been my
> lifestyle but I do wish that I could share my experience, knowledge and
> prosperity to society.
>
> From last couple years, I’ve been focused for help and contribute on
> awareness of women in technology. One of my concern is the housewives and
> motherhood, the very base user in technology. We help them by teach and
> introduce them to newest technology or the explain the nearest technology
> around them. In March, I started to take a dip to motherhood to introduce
> them to the FOSS. [1]. The movement is called "Perempuan Sadar Teknologi" or
> in English is called Women Awareness in Technology.
>
> After joining GNOME.Asia Summit 2015, I intend to attend GUADEC 2015, too.
> Then I registered as volunteer for GUADEC and got sponsorship from GNOME
> Foundation (thanks GNOME <3 ) to go Gutenberg, Sweden and meet a huge number
> of contributor, user and developer of GNOME.
>
> Right now, I am preparing GNOME 3.18 Release Party in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
> We already got place and some sponsor, including from GNOME Foundation! It
> is my pleasure to host GNOME event here. But we haven't receive the fund
> yet. Hehehehe.
>
> We plan to not only having a party but also create some simple class from
> motherhood and housewives to introduce them to FOSS and anti-piracy
> campaign. If you all had a free time around first week of October, we will
> pleased to meet you!
>
>
> [0] http://2015.gnome.asia/
> [1]
> https://iskandarsiska.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/introduce-foss-to-motherhood/
>
> PS. GNOME 3.18 Release Party will happens at 3rd October, 2015 2 PM till 5
> PM GMT +7 Maps of Crystal Lotus Hotel, Yogyakarta
> --
> All the best,
> Siska Iskandar
> WhatsApp : +62 8383 7177 191
>
>
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