Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Anish Patil

[anish patil]

Affiliation: Red Hat

Hi all,

This is the first time i have been running for any election (you can't win
over your friends)
Since last few years, i have been talking at various conferences making
awareness about Free Software and GNOME, input methods and how one can make
money from free software.

The reason i would like to run for this election is because I think would
be the right person to promote GNOME specially in Asian region. If I get
elected,i would try to have more hackfests in Asia region and try to raise
fund for GNOME.


Thanks,
Anish P.
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Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Anish Patil

[Andre Klapper]

Hi Anish,

thanks for running!

On Sat, 2014-05-17 at 22:28 +0530, anish patil wrote:
> If I get elected,i would try to have more hackfests in Asia region and
> try to raise fund for GNOME.

What is currently blocking to be more active and/or successful to reach
these goals, and how do you think that being on the board will help you
to achieve these goals?

Cheers,
andre
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http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Anish Patil

[anish patil]

Hi Andre!

>thanks for running!
Thank you!

>What is currently blocking to be more active and/or successful to reach
 >these goals, and how do you think that being on the board will help you
>to achieve these goals?

I did try to run hackfest in India couple of times but real problem is fund
raising, i did reach few Indian companies to sponsor for
events/hackfestsbut unfortunately that did not go that well.Being a
board director i wоuld
get better insight for board's financial status and i used to be an account
and project manager for one of the Bank in South Africa and i hope i could
utilize that experience.
And for fund raising, i am working on it(in-fact i tried to get sponsership
for GNOME.ASIA but it was on a short notice)


Thanks,
Anish P.
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Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Anish Patil

[David King]

Hi Anish

On 2014-05-18 21:22, anish patil  wrote:

I did try to run hackfest in India couple of times but real problem is fund
raising, i did reach few Indian companies to sponsor for
events/hackfestsbut unfortunately that did not go that well.Being a
board director i wоuld
get better insight for board's financial status and i used to be an account
and project manager for one of the Bank in South Africa and i hope i could
utilize that experience.
And for fund raising, i am working on it(in-fact i tried to get sponsership
for GNOME.ASIA but it was on a short notice)


The largest cost for hackfests is travel and accommodation. Travel to 
India can often be expensive for those in Europe and the US, which is 
traditionally where a large number of GNOME contributors are based. Have 
you considered drawing on the experience of the Foundation's Indian 
members in calling for hackfest participation?


There are several documentation team members who have participated in 
the Outreach Program for Women, who I am sure would be able to organise 
an excellent hackfest on user help. If this hackfest was in a location 
where some Indian GNOME hackers could also reach it, you could attract 
newcomers to both documentation and development. You might want to 
invite 1 or 2 prominent GNOME contributors to the hackfest from outside 
of India, to demonstrate the diversity of contributors. This would help 
to keep costs low, and make the event better value for the Foundation.


While investigating GNOME outreach efforts in India, I came across 
gnome-in-list:


https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-in-list/

The mailing list seems dormant, but maybe it could be resurrected with a 
new focus on regional event planning. With an enthusiastic coordinator 
such as yourself, I think you would be able to attract a lot of 
interest.


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Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Anish Patil

[sankarshan]

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:22 PM, anish patil  wrote:

> I did try to run hackfest in India couple of times but real problem is fund
> raising, i did reach few Indian companies to sponsor for events/hackfests
> but unfortunately that did not go that well.

Anish, you raise an interesting point. Do you have a set of notes/plan
drawn up from these conversations with the companies who were not keen
to sponsor the hackfests? A hackfest/workshop would be successful if
there are specific agenda items which are owned/driven by individuals
and continuing the theme from a later email from David (King) - has
there been specific reasons why GNOME contributors from India (and in
India) have not been able to get together to make things happen?


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Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Anish Patil

[Sindhu S]

>
> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:22 PM, anish patil 
> wrote:
>
> > I did try to run hackfest in India couple of times but real problem is
> fund
> > raising, i did reach few Indian companies to sponsor for events/hackfests
> > but unfortunately that did not go that well.
>

In Bangalore, we have four GNOMEies as I know of (Arun Raghavan, Aruna S,
Srinivasa
Ragavan and myself). Aruna is involved and is an active FMSK person. FSMK
is very
keen on bringing FOSS to students and Bangalore people. Though each of us
have our own time commitments to take care of, the planned talk/hackfest
at FSMK did not go through. Anish, would you be interested in picking this
up
from where it was left off?
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Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Anish Patil

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Sindhu S  wrote:
>> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:22 PM, anish patil 
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I did try to run hackfest in India couple of times but real problem is
>> > fund
>> > raising, i did reach few Indian companies to sponsor for
>> > events/hackfests
>> > but unfortunately that did not go that well.
>
>
> In Bangalore, we have four GNOMEies as I know of (Arun Raghavan, Aruna S,
> Srinivasa
> Ragavan and myself). Aruna is involved and is an active FMSK person. FSMK is
> very
> keen on bringing FOSS to students and Bangalore people. Though each of us
> have our own time commitments to take care of, the planned talk/hackfest
> at FSMK did not go through. Anish, would you be interested in picking this
> up
> from where it was left off?
>


I randomly joined the gnome.in list last week, mostly because I was
working on an article regarding hackfests and saw that you were
organizing it, there was a lot of traffic on the mailing list last
year, but then nothing since.  I was planning on posting just to
invigorate the list to see if we could bring some discussion back as I
was somewhat interested in seeing what happened?

I have a events planner if you need help. :-)  Just ask!

sri
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