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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

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 Bengaluru, India.

No Name FAS Fri, 6 Dec Sat, 7 Dec Sun, 8 Dec Travel itinerary Languages Topics
1 Samyak Jain jnsamyak DEL <=> BLR hi, en Release Engineering, Fedora, community building, open source
2 Akashdeep Dhar t0xic0der PNQ <=> BLR hi, en, bn Infrastructure, Virtualization, Observability, Mentorship, Selfhosting, FOSS, Fedora Project, Websites/Apps Representative
3 Justin W. Flory jflory7 ATL => FRA => BOM => BLR en (native), hi (beginner) Attending as Fedora Community Architect. Fedora history, community onboarding, mentoring, Outreachy, internships.
4 Nikita Tripathi nekonya3 local hi, en
5 Sumantro Mukherjee sumantrom CCU <=> BLR hi, en, bn Fedora QA
6 Sudhir Dharanendraiah sdharane local hi, en, kanada Fedora QA
7 Amita Sharma amsharma Pune <=> BLR <=> Delhi hi, en, Punjabi Fedora DEI, Fedora AI/ML
8 Anushka Jain likeanushkaa local hi, en
9 Jona Azizaj jonatoni TIA <=> BLR sq, en Fedora Council, Fedora DEI, Fedora Mentor Summit, mentoring, community building, CoC
10 Smera Goel smeragoel DEL <=> BLR hi, en Fedora Council, Mentored Projects Initiative, mentoring, design, badges

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 Tripathi, Nikita nekonya3 $0 $250 $25 $275
9 Sharma, Amita amsharma $275 $440 $100 $815
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.”

Fedora 2028 Strategy.

  • 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


References