Full disclosure - I wrok for Intel as the Tizen SCM architect. Since I brought up Tizen, I wanted to make it known that there is a relationship.
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Max <sakana...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> Thanks for run the board. >> This is the most busy time for GNOME.Asia summit(4 days to go). >> GNOME.Asia team and Beijing team are busy for the summit. >> >> 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? >> > > Growth in Asia has been a bit of a puzzle for me. But let's think > strategically on how we could promote and grow in asia. Now, I think > there are a couple of things that we can do in terms of promotion. > Let's first talk about Tizen. Tizen stack is the basis of the mobile > phone stack which interestingly enough contains many pieces of GNOME > technologies. So by extension people who use Tizen use GNOME > technologies and there is a wealth of companies specifically in Asia > that are using Tizen for IVI, Mobile, and IOT. There is probably some > fundraising opportunities there and a way to get our name out. > > How about partnering with Asian based distros and make sure that we > have a specific asian experience on GNOME? Recruiting folks who might > be interesting to do this? > > Most of these ideas require a stable platform to do volunteer > recruitiment. So while they maybe good ideas, you need to make sure > that we put in an infrastrucutre in place that immediately makes them > useful. > > >> >> -- Google Summer of code / Outreach Program for Women >> ---- What's your plan for GsoC and OPW in Asia? > > Should there be a plan? We should take applicants who are interesterd > regardless of race, creed, or color. In general, we seem to have good > representation from Asia in tehse programs. > >> ---- How many country get GsoC / OPW in Asia? What's your plan for promote >> it with more country in Asia? > > I think the same thing applies as above. Now, if you're talking about > highlighting the program in Asia, the best place to start is to put > posters in universities or popular cultural events. For instance, in > SXSW, we put a lot of posters out there talking about teh next round > of OPW. We even had some responses of that. Having presentations > from GNOME OPW students in Asia is another good way to do this. At > Linuxcon, there are a number of OPW kernel who are doing BOF and > presentation and they are coming as a group to talk about the work > tehy are doing. We did something similar at GUADEC last year, but we > should really expand that to other areas. > > While tech conferences and universities are a good place, don't be > afraid to go to places that are unusual. Open air markets for > instance might be interesting. Pay a kid to walk around handling > fliers to out to people outside a store? Or maybe do it yourself. > >> >> >> -- 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? >> > > This isn't something the board itself can solve. This is really > something that you want the engagement team to be working on. The > board can help fund, and provide logistical support. But ultimately, > we want to get enthusiastic people recruit others. Sometimes that is > really easy. For instance, I knwo at least two people we brougiht > into the foundation simply because we noticed that they were > doingpro-bono support on #gnome. Sending them a t-shirt and > sponsoring their inclusion into GNOME Foundation is a great way to > reward people like them. > > >> -- Are you interesting to involve Asia event? and how do you involve? >> > > I would love to be involved, but my opportunities to travel is quite > small due to job constraints and time constraints. But I would love > to help logistically if I can. In fact, I encouraged at least one > person in the foundation to help GNOME Asia with the conference > logistics as an event planner. > > > Max, it's unfortunate you did not run for the board this year. I hope > you or Emily Chen will consider running next year. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
