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== About == | == About == | ||
Revision as of 02:28, 26 September 2024
GNOME Asia 2024 in Bengaluru, India
See Fedora Discussion topic for comments, questions, and logistics.
About
GNOME.Asia Summit is the featured annual GNOME conference in Asia. It focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop and covers applications and platform development tools. The summit brings together the GNOME community in Asia to provide a forum for users, developers, foundation leaders, governments, and businesses to discuss the present technology and future developments.
- Website: [1]
- Location: Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd. Bagmane Constellation Business Park, Carina Building, 10th Floor East, Doddanekkundi, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560037
- Time Zone: Indian Standard Time: UTC +5:30
- Schedule: TBA
- Fedora Talks & Speakers: Here
- Format: In-person & Online
Duration and Location
The event will be organized in a hybrid from Dec 6, 2024, to Dec 8, 2024, Asia/Kolkata (IST) time in Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, India for in-person attendees and on Big Blue Button platform for virtual attendees joining from across the globe. Track one would be organized here and track two would be organized here.
The preferred Fedora hotel is the Fairfield by Marriott Whitefield, Bengaluru, India. It is about a 5-10 minute drive or 40-minute walk to the event venue from the approved hotel.
Call for Proposal
CFPs for GNOME ASIA Summit 2024 are now open, Check here. I motivate all my fedora friends to submit a talk at the conference.
Visas
Indian citizens do not require a visa to enter Nepal. Travelers with other nationalities require a Nepal visa. Citizens of Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Afghanistan, Cameroon, Somalia, Liberia, Ethiopia, Palestine, Iraq, and Syria need to apply for the Nepal visa before the trip.[1] Otherwise, the visa can be taken online or on arrival.[2]
Schedule at a glance
- URL: events.gnome.org/event/258/timetable/
- Sunday, 8 December is a community day and does not feature conference programming. A social activity is planned by the conference.
Friday, 6 December
- 09:00 - 09:30 // Fedora team arrival on-site
- 09:50 - 16:20 // Conference Programming
- 16:45 - 18:45 // Fedora Linux 41 Release Party & 21th Anniversary Celebration
Saturday, 7 December
- 09:30 - 09:50 // Fedora team arrival on-site
- 10:00 - 16:50 // Conference Programming
Fedora presence
Are you a Fedora contributor attending GNOME Asia 2024? Add yourself to the table below. Please use the "Comments" column to specify your Fedora role and the nearest airport that you would fly from to Kathmandu, Nepal.
| No | Name | FAS | Fri, 6 Dec | Sat, 7 Dec | Sun, 8 Dec | Travel itinerary | Languages | Topics |
| 1 | Samyak Jain | jnsamyak |  |
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DEL <=> BLR | hi, en | Release Engineering, Fedora, community building, open source |
| 2 | Akashdeep Dhar | t0xic0der | |
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PNQ <=> BLR | hi, en, bn | Infrastructure, Virtualization, Observability, Mentorship, Selfhosting, FOSS, Fedora Project, Websites/Apps Representative |
| 3 | Justin W. Flory | jflory7 | |
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ATL => FRA => BOM => BLR | en (native), hi (beginner) | Attending as Fedora Community Architect. Fedora history, community onboarding, mentoring, Outreachy, internships. |
| 4 | Nikita Tripathi | nekonya3 | |
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local | hi, en | |
| 5 | Sumantro Mukherjee | sumantrom | |
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CCU <=> BLR | hi, en, bn | Fedora QA |
| 6 | Sudhir Dharanendraiah | sdharane | |
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local | hi, en, kanada | Fedora QA |
| 7 | Anushka Jain | likeanushkaa | |
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local | hi, en |
Budget proposal
This table represents the proposed budget to the Fedora Mindshare Committee. Note that the amount budgeted for is final, i.e. what you write here is final. You would not be reimbursed for more than what is proposed here.
Please estimate all prices in USD. Use latest market rates for approximate conversions from INR to USD on xe.com.
| No | Name | FAS | Airfare/Rail ($USD) | Lodging ($USD) | Incidentals¹ ($USD) | Total ($USD) | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Azizaj, Jona | jonatoni | $850 | $225 | $100 | $1175 | |
| 2 | Dhar, Akashdeep | t0xic0der | $130 | $470 | $100 | $700 | |
| 3 | Dharanendraiah, Sudhir | sdharane | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | Needs confirmation. |
| 4 | Goel, Smera | smeragoel | $200 | $225 | $100 | $525 | |
| 5 | Jain, Anushka | likeanushkaa | $0 | $250 | $25 | $275 | |
| 6 | Jain, Samyak | jnsamyak | $275 | $470 | $100 | $845 | |
| 7 | Mukherjee, Sumantro | sumantrom | $220 | $470 | $100 | $790 | |
| 8 | Sharma, Amita | amsharma | $275 | $440 | $100 | $815 | |
| 9 | Tripathi, Nikita | nekonya3 | $0 | $250 | $25 | $275 | |
| Total | -- | -- | $1950 | $2800 | $650 | $5400 | -- |
Speakers
The following is a list of presentations, birds of feathers, workshops, talks and discussions organized by the community members of the Fedora Project. If you are a part of the community and have a subevent that is selected for the event, please feel free to edit the table below to add an entry with all the related details.
| No | Name | Date | Time (IST) | Speaker | Description | URL |
| 1 | Fedora 41 Release Party: Celebrating 21 years of Fedora | TBA | TBA | Justin W. Flory, Sumantro Mukherjee, Akashdeep Dhar, Samyak Jain, Sudhir Dharanendraiah, Nikita Tripathi | Join friends from the Fedora community to celebrate the most recent release of the Fedora Linux operating system, Fedora Linux 41. We will provide the refreshments while you get to meet other Fedora contributors from across the region. There will be short presentations about Fedora Linux 41 and new changes, the Fedora community, and more. In addition to Fedora Linux 39, the Fedora community is also celebrating its 21th anniversary in 2024, so we will have double the reason to celebrate and party near the closing of the year! See you there? :) | https://events.gnome.org/event/258/contributions/560/ |
Goals & messaging
Fedora 2028 Strategy: “Double the number of Fedora contributors active every week.”
- Find it, use it, change it: Linux accessibility (Fedora Docs, Fedora Linux, release engineering tools).
- Be a mentor, have a mentor: Empower a culture of mentoring in Fedora and scale it.
- Release stories: Fedora releases should have a story behind changes in each release.
- Open collaboration: More partnership with peer communities and upstream projects.
Open Source Values messaging: Freedom, Friends, Features, First
- Freedom: We are dedicated to free software and content. (🔗 more)
- Friends: We are a strong, caring community. (🔗 more)
- Features: We care about excellent software. (🔗 more)
- First: We are committed to innovation. (🔗 more)
Fedora Linux 41 Changes and talking points
- Change:
- [URL Text]: What it is the change about?
External links & social media
The list below captures event reports, blogs, and social media posts about GNOME Asia 2024.
From Fedora community members
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