Re: Report of the GNOME Project Day at foss.in/2007
On Dec 11, 2007 1:16 AM, Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Dec 10, 2007 12:40 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At foss.in/2007, there was a GNOME Project Day. Details of the talks for > > the GNOME Project can be found at http://foss.in/2007/schedules/ > > Interesting report of what looks like a very interesting day! Congratulations. > > What you don't say is... are you going to repeat with a GNOME day in 2009? Well, The project days are a part of FOSS.IN and the decision about project days and their future at the event will be taken by Team FOSS.IN. Having said that, given the success of Project days I dont see any reason why this wont continue next year. There might be small format changes to deal with, but thats all part and parcel of the game. Thanks a lot for all the help to get Gnome Project Day off the ground, the team at FOSS.IN and all the Gnome enthusiasts in India are happy to see an active Gnome community, I will personally push Gnome community meetups at other Indian conferences. p.s: I already got 4 new students looking at gnome-love bugs and 2 others looking at nautilus! Cheers, Shreyas (Team FOSS.IN & Long time Gnomie) ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Report of the GNOME Project Day at foss.in/2007
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Quim Gil wrote: > Interesting report of what looks like a very interesting day! Congratulations. > > What you don't say is... are you going to repeat with a GNOME day in 2009? The same thought struck me when I was writing the report of the event. However, 2009 is a bit far down the line and of course there's foss.in/2008 to consider. What we are planning to have is a set of "meetups" at conferences where there are discussions and tutorials about various means to contribute. Or, instead of setting sights on one big event, we plan to have a series of smaller ones and perhaps ones where various companies supporting|using|developing in|developing for GNOME and having Indian centers can provide the required resources in terms of playing the host and doing tutorials. We will require help in doing that though :) :sankarshan - -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHXhJ6XQZpNTcrCzMRAq0xAJ41UzpkClQq4t8MLe5gKoQgTLRKgACcCCF6 Fzo6i0kuH3S4xiO+M0Z/gQU= =1gXp -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Report of the GNOME Project Day at foss.in/2007
Hi! On Dec 10, 2007 12:40 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At foss.in/2007, there was a GNOME Project Day. Details of the talks for > the GNOME Project can be found at http://foss.in/2007/schedules/ Interesting report of what looks like a very interesting day! Congratulations. What you don't say is... are you going to repeat with a GNOME day in 2009? -- Quim Gil /// http://flors.wordpress.com ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Report of the GNOME Project Day at foss.in/2007
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, At foss.in/2007, there was a GNOME Project Day. Details of the talks for the GNOME Project can be found at http://foss.in/2007/schedules/ foss.in/2007 had as a stated and underlying theme "Building the Community". While GNOME has had an enthusiastic and active presence in India there has been a distinct lack of cohesion and convergence of thought which indicates a common purpose. The GNOME Project Day primarily aimed to achieve two things [0]: + demonstrate how to contribute to GNOME + creating a community of evangelists and GNOME developers who can participate in development, bug triage and related issues As it turned out a fair bit of "parking lot" discussions happened and those included such topics like "how to learn what to teach so that folks can begin contribution", "how to localize documentation", "existence of online translation tools" and such This was the first time that there were "Project Days" at foss.in and naturally there was no indicators of what would work and what would not. The delegate statistics [1] were not of much help in terms of predicting turn out. So when we were there at the venue with the goodies [2] the size of the audience was a bit of a let down. In fact right before we started, we had more speakers than audience. Not good. So out went the speakers to try and rustle up some audience. It worked. And when we did hit the second talk [3] we had managed to fill up more than 50% of the hall capacity. From there on, the crowd just kept growing till we ended up with stairs filling up [4] Nearly all the talks had brisk question answer sessions (including [3] where there was a smallish nearly OT discussion on fonts and branding) and of course when the eye candy talk [5] came up, there were more of the ooh and aahs that go with a nice show-n-tell. Post lunch talks did not have the expected downward spiral of delegates but more of a “sit on the stairs and listen” kind of attendance. Plenty of questions, some interesting exchanges and of course the usual glitches with the projector [6] were also part of what happened. All said and done, by the time it was the last talk from Naba Kumar [7] , we were pretty happy with the way things turned out. Runa [8] carried forward the talk on GTP into the IndLinux BoF particularly in the areas of increasing number of languages. Mairin Duffy summed up the GNOME Project Day [9] I would like to thank the GNOME Foundation (and Board) for providing funds that ensured Mairin Duffy could travel to foss.in and we could have swag (I am yet to see another instance of badges/buttons flying out so fast). I would also thank the Marketing Team who ensured that the GNOME Project Day was reflected on the front page of www.gnome.org (in spite of me providing them the information at the nearly last moment) There were moments of hilarity including one where Lennart [10] peppered the crowd with swag (badges) and they went wild. Lessons learnt which can be re-used for later events: + co-ordinate with speakers and organizers to ensure that impromptu parking lots can be arranged + be wary of laptops with Nvidia cards + no amount of swag is ever enough - so don't try and compete with others on swag + put in hands-on sessions evenly throughout the event + enter the event with at least 2 follow up events planned in advance + desktop bug hunting is more exciting than we think + have some video playing when speakers are in transit or lunch is in session + get artwork for GNOME banners + get more GNOME posters :sankarshan [0] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-in-list/2007-November/msg1.html [1] http://foss.in/2007/register/delegates/stats.php [2] http://www.flickr.com/photos/runa-sankarshan/tags/gnomeswag/ [3] http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=542 [4] http://www.flickr.com/photos/runa-sankarshan/2087878808/ [5] http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=290 [6] http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=319 [7] http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=540 [8] http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=265 [9] http://mihmo.livejournal.com/50541.html [10] http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=513 - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw www.linkedin.com/in/sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHXReTXQZpNTcrCzMRAqgKAJ9TFSkKbvF95uEN1x4JHxoARrjCJQCgidxs eykfKM+URWEKsU6ML6VkE+I= =E/wd -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
