Hi board members, Isaac Sanni-Thomas, one of the Ghanian Fedora Ambassadors that I met at Idlelo [1] last year, is organizing a Fedora Action Day (FAD) [2] in Accra, Ghana:
http://d3vnulls.blogspot.com/2010/12/fad-2011-in-ghana.html As part of my continued interest in GNOME related outreach activities in Sub-Saharan Africa, I would like to help setup a GNOME developer training session at this event. This is a great opportunity to promote GNOME in this region because the primary organizors of this event are from Ghana and are already working within F/OSS communities. We have a good chance of attracting people to the GNOME community at this event. What are the possibilities for getting travel sponsorship for this event for 1 or 2 people (not necessarily me)? Here are suggestions for sessions I would like to see but it really depends on the person/people going: * tour of GNOME 3 * hands on session working through the GNOME development work flow (bugzilla, git, fixing real a bug or two, etc) * hands on developer training - work through adding a small feature to a GNOME module I think it would be appropriate to have GNOMErs who have already been doing outreach work in less economically developed countries run these sessions but this is not required. I attended the 'GNOME in Asia and Brazil' session run by Emily Chen and Jonh Wendell this year at GUADEC. I think both of these people are good candidates for running these training sessions at the Accra FAD. I haven't actually spoken to either them yet so I could also post a request of volunteers on my blog. Or one of you guys could ask for volunteers and pick an appropriate person/people. One of the challenges I see with this proposal is that Ghana is a long way to travel in terms of time and money for only a one day event. One of my personal goals for my outreach activities is to make this kind of situation disappear by having GNOMErs in Sub-Saharan Africa. But since we're not there yet, we're left with this situation. Thanks for your time. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts. Thanks, Ben 1. http://www.idlelo.net/ 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list