GNOME.Asia summit 2015 is call for paper

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GNOME.Asia summit 2015 is call for paper





http://2015.gnome.asia/cfp

PRESENTING AT THE GNOME.ASIA SUMMIT
*Click here to submit your presentation!
*
GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 invites proposals for presentations at the
conference. GNOME.Asia Summit is Asia's GNOME user and developer
conference, spreading the knowledge of GNOME across Asia. The conference
will be held in Universitas Indonesia, Depok West Java, Indonesia on May
8-9, 2015. The conference follows the release of GNOME 3.14, helping to
bring new desktop paradigms that facilitate user interaction in the
computing world.  It will be a great place to celebrate and explore the
many new features and enhancements to the GNOME 3.14 release and to help
make GNOME as successful as possible. We welcome proposals by newcomers and
experienced speakers alike.
Possible topics* include*, but* not limited* to:
How to Promote/Contribute to GNOME in Asia

   - GNOME Marketing
   - Promotion of Free / Open Source Software
   - How to run a Local GNOME Users Group
   - Asia success stories / Local GNOME Projects
   - GNOME and Educations
   - GNOME Outreach Program for Women
   - Google Summer of Code

Hacking GNOME

   - Latest developments in GNOME
   - GNOME 3 & GNOME 3 Usability
   - GNOME Human Interface Engineering (Icons and Graphic Design)
   - QA and testing in GNOME
   - GNOME Accessibility
   - GNOME Coding How-to
   - Writing applications for GNOME 3
   - Integration of web life into the desktop

Adapting GNOME to new types of devices

   - Developing GNOME on mobile devices (smart phones, tablets)
   - Developing GNOME on embedded systems or open source hardware
   - On-going projects and success stories
   - Finding Free and Open Source friendly hardware manufacturers

Localization and Internationalization

   - Translations
   - Input methods
   - Fonts

Other topics could include any topic related to Free and Open Source
Software not listed above:

   - Small Board,
   - Open Hardware,
   - Open Data,
   - Big Data,
   - Cloud Computing,
   - Mobile Technology

Lightning talks! A five minute presentation to demonstrate your work or
promote an interesting topic. These talks will be grouped together in a
single session.
A standard session at GNOME.Asia 2015 will be scheduled as 45 mins (35 mins
talk + 10 mins Q&A).  Please take into consideration any time you will need
for preparation. The session could be a technical talk, panel discussion,
or BOF.
If you’d like to share your knowledge and experience at GNOME.Asia 2015,
please fill in the form at before *March 15th, 2015*.  Please provide a
short abstract about your proposal (under 150 words). Include your name,
biographical information, a photo suitable for the web, a title, and a
description of your presentation . The reviewing team will evaluate the
entries based on the submitted abstracts and available time in the
schedule. You will be contacted before *March 17th, 2015* on whether your
submission has been accepted or not.
All interested contributors are highly encouraged to send in their talks.
Please help us to spread the invitation to other potential participants.
Even you do not plan to be a speaker, please consider joining GNOME.Asia
2015. This is going to be a great event!
*Click here to submit your presentation!
*
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Re: foundation application..

[meg ford]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Tobias Mueller 
wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 02:02:48PM -0600, meg ford wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Tobias Mueller 
> wrote:
> > > Right, but as I've said, it's not a general answer and applications are
> > > dealt with on a case-by-case basis.
> > In that case, I suggest that we don't make general statements telling
> > interns to not apply, but instead tell them that it's case-by-case.
> Fair enough.  Do you think Marina's mail, in which she asks interns to
> stay around before applying, is a general statement telling interns to not
> apply?
> I don't. That might be due to English not being my native language.
>

The general statement I got from Marina's email is: GNOME has a rule which
prohibits us from accepting interns for six months after they have
completed their internships.


> Are there other instances of us (GNOME) making general statements which
> tell
> interns to not apply?


As Dave Neary pointed out, the membership committee guidelines state:
We currently do not process applications from GSoC and OPW interns until
two months after their internship ended. After the two months, make sure
the intern kept contributing after the end of the internship. Reply to
the application using the template under Application from intern.

and there is a form letter which states:
> We only accept applications from GSoC and OPW interns two months
> after their internship ended -- unless you already were a GNOME
> contributor before your internship started.

Those statements both mean that interns can not be accepted until two
months after their internship ends. If that is the case, then it would be
discouraging to interns who have contributed above and beyond what they
needed to do for internships by becoming really involved in the community.
So I am suggesting that instead of having a waiting period, that we look at
how much effort the intern has made, in the same way we would look at that
for any other contributor who is applying.

I hope that clarifies what I meant.

I hope this clarifies things.
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Re: foundation application..

[Tobias Mueller]

Hi.

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 02:02:48PM -0600, meg ford wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Tobias Mueller  wrote:
> > Right, but as I've said, it's not a general answer and applications are
> > dealt with on a case-by-case basis.
> In that case, I suggest that we don't make general statements telling
> interns to not apply, but instead tell them that it's case-by-case.
Fair enough.  Do you think Marina's mail, in which she asks interns to
stay around before applying, is a general statement telling interns to not 
apply?
I don't. That might be due to English not being my native language.

Are there other instances of us (GNOME) making general statements which tell
interns to not apply?

Cheers,
  Tobi
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Re: foundation application..

[meg ford]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Tobias Mueller 
wrote:

> Right, but as I've said, it's not a general answer and applications are
> dealt
> with on a case-by-case basis.
>

In that case, I suggest that we don't make general statements telling
interns to not apply, but instead tell them that it's case-by-case.

>
> I know of only one case where a GSoC student was rejected with the
> justification
> of us only accepting GSoCers only after two months after the internship.
> In this case though, the student applied one week after the internship had
> started (i.e. not even ended yet).  Previous contributions were not
> identified.
> I haven't sent the rejection letter myself, but I would have done the same,
> rather than saying that the contributions weren't non-trivial enough just
> yet.
>

I agree that someone applying after one week (regardless of who they are)
shouldn't be accepted.

>
> For reasons outlined in this thread, I think it's a good advise to not
> accept
> people who have just joined the community.  I think that, in order to
> identify
> with GNOME, the GNOME community, and the GNOME Foundation, a few months
> should have
> passed.  Of course, I wouldn't think of it as being set in stone, but
> rather a
> guidance.
>

As Cosimo mentioned in his comment, I think that interns may or may not
have become sufficiently involved in the community over the course of the
first three months. As German mentioned, sometimes interns do not have any
patches accepted (I didn't have any accepted during my first internship --
which made me seriously annoyed and motivated me to keep trying until I did
succeed). In that case, asking the interns to stay on and continue to
contribute before applying makes sense In every case I think. In the case
of interns who have e.g. started to take on extra responsibility within the
community during their internship period, I think that having wording which
might discourage them from applying is a mistake.
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