Aug 31, 2015

openSUSE.Asia Summit – Call for Papers

The openSUSE.Asia Committee is happy to announce the call for papers upcoming second openSUSE.Asia Summit. Starting today, the Committee is looking forward to see your proposals. The committee is looking for speakers from different avenues representing and advocating Free and Open Source Software.

Presentations can be submitted in any of the four formats

Lightning Talk (10 mins)
Short Talk (30 mins)
Long Talk (60 mins)
Workshop (3 hours)

The openSUSE.Asia committee highly recommends workshops or hands on sessions. Papers can be submitted at the conference website.

Deadlines

Papers can be submitted until 25^th of September. The openSUSE.Asia Committee will evaluate the proposals based on the submitted abstracts and available time in the schedule, and, the accepted proposals will be announced on 9^thOctober.

Aug 1, 2015

CALL FOR GNOME.ASIA SUMMIT 2016 HOST PROPOSALS

The GNOME.Asia Committee is inviting interested parties to submit proposals for hosting GNOME.Asia Summit during the 2nd quarter of 2016.

GNOME.Asia Summit is the annual GNOME Conference in Asia. The event focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop, but also covers applications and the development platform tools. It 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.

GNOME.Asia Summits have been held in Beijing, Ho-Chi-Minh City, Taipei, Bangalore, Hong Kong, Seoul, Beijing, Depok respectively over the last eight years.

The Committees’s preference is to find a new location each year in order to spread GNOME throughout Asia and we are looking for local organizers to rise to the challenge of organizing an excellent GNOME event. The GNOME.Asia committee will assist in the process, but there is a definitive need for individuals to be actively involved and committed to the planning and execution of the event.

You can learn more about GNOME.Asia Summit at our website: http://www.gnome.asia Interested parties are hereby invited to submit a formal proposal to the GNOME Asia Committee. The deadline for the proposals is September 11, 2015. Please email your proposal to gnome-asia-committee-listgnome org. We might invite you to present your proposal in more details over our regular IRC meetings or send you additional questions and requests. Results will be announced by the first week of October 2015.

The conference will require availability of facilities for 3-5 days, including a weekend, during the 2nd quarter of 2016 (between March and June). Key points which each proposals should consider and which will be taken into account when deciding among candidates, are:

Local community support for hosting the conference.
Venue details. Information about infrastructure and facilities to hold the conference should be provided.
Preliminary schedule with main program & different activities.
Information about how Internet connectivity will be managed.
Lodging choices ranging from affordable housing to nicer hotels, and information about distances between the venue and lodging options.
The availability of restaurants or the organization of catering on-site, cost of food/soft drinks/beer.
The availability and cost of travel from major Asian and European cities.
Local industries, universities and government support.

Please provide a reasonably detailed budget (sponsorships, expenses, etc).

Plans for local sponsorship's

Please refer to the GNOME.Asia website. Please also check the GNOME.Asia Summit check list, howtos and the winning proposal for 2012 when putting together a proposal. You are welcome to contact gnome-asia-committee-list AT gnome org if you have any questions. Please help to spread the word and we are looking forward to hearing from you soon! GNOME.Asia Committee

Jun 19, 2015

GNOME.Asia Summit 2015

It's always happy and pleasure to join and organize GNOME.Asia Summit. :-)

You could see many photos in Flickr group with GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 all of the pictures come from our great Participant and Organizer.

If you ask me "Why you work hard for GNOME, freeware and open source?"
---- The answer is "Friendship and Smile"

-Smiles is the greatest power to promote GNOME and FOSS to me-

I meet many new friends and contribute to GNOME and FOSS in many different events.

It also a good time to see old friends get together. ^^

It's very good to work in GNOME and GNOME.Asia team, I learn very much from GNOME and GNOME.Asia team.

This year, we have very strong local committee.

- Thanks Utian give us close speech and BinLi -

- Thanks Haris make everything smooth and smile-

- Thanks Estu always give everything right away, you should go to GUADEC ^^-

- Thanks Siska and our host [ We have 2 great host this year ^^ ] keep everyone powerful -

- Thanks our local committee and organizer always smile and keep contribute-

I want to list all the pictures with all our local committee and organizer, I really suggest you to see the pictures in flickr group.

Great picture to see in GNOME.Asia Summit 2015.

I also want to let you know

- Great photo comes from Contributors ( In diff method ) get together-

I really love the topic this year "GNOME Desktop for Everyone"

Everyone could use GNOME for Desktop ^^ -- I love it

I am very enjoy GNOME.Asia Summit this year.

- I love my new job "Human timer for lighting talks" this year -

It's great moment to see GNOME.Asia Summit in Universitas Indonesia.

We have great time in Day 0 workshop.

-Thanks our speakers give us workshop ^^-

Also love to see openSUSE community guys in Indonesia, and it's my pleasure to join openSUSE Indonesia facebook Group.

It's great to have friends join GNOME.Asia Summit from Taiwan together.

- Thanks Shing Yuan introduce how to promote open source with their team in Aletheia University-

Thanks everyone join GNOME.Asia Summit

We have lots fun in GNOME.Asia.

Thanks speakers come to GNOME.Asia Summit and blog for summit.

I want to Thanks all our sponsor and GNOME Foundation.
Without their their support, we could not have this amazing GNOME.Asia Summit.

Feb 15, 2015

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!

Dec 16, 2014

GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 to be hosted in Depok Indonesia

The GNOME Asia Committee is pleased to announce that the upcoming GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 will be hosted in Depok Indonesia May 7-9 2015. It will be a great place to celebrate and explore the many new features and enhancements to GNOME 3.

The GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 will be hosted at the Universitas Indonesia, which has a high number of students and people interested in Free/Open Source software. Consequently, there is a very committed local team which already has significant experience in organizing successful events. The venue is located in Depok City, a gateway city of the West Java Province, 30 km from Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. Hosting Asia Summit 2015 in Depok will bring the spotlight on GNOME and make an impact locally, regionally, and internationally.

“We are looking forward to welcome the GNOME community to Indonesia, a country that has a large Free and Open source community, we are excited that they will gather for GNOME Asia Summit 2015″ said Estu Fardani, a member of the local organizing team.

The GNOME Asia Committee want thank everyone who participated in the GNOME Asia Summit 2015 bidding process.

Nov 3, 2014

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2014

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2014 is the first openSUSE Summit in Asia, which aims to promote openSUSE and other free and open source software in the region (especially in colleges).

I am very pleasure to be one of the organize team members.

I want to mention Sunny's mail and thanks her and all staff again

---------From Sunny----------------------------------------
I would take this opportunity to thank the openSUSE.Asia Summit
organization team. Today, now the openSUSE.Asia summit has started,
I'm reminded of the journey we took to get here.

I can not forget our weekly meetings, which often lasted to midnight.
I can't forget 137 cards in trello for the preparation tracking.
And I can't forget hundredss of emails about the Summit in our mail
boxes.

When we were on the way to reach this summit, we encouraged and
supported each other. Even though we were tired, we never gave up,
because we did believe we would finally be here. It is my honor being
a member of such a great team!

There are 17 people in the organization team, I won't list everyone's
name because we are a team, and we couldn't have make any success
without each of us.
------------------------------------------------------------

It's very nice to have 4 openSUSE members with opening session.
Come from India / Beijing / Japan / Taiwan to welcome everyone come to openSUSE.Asia Summit.

Thanks our keynote speakers

* Richard Brown
* Ralf Flaxa
* 谷雷

Thanks all our speakers

We have lots of fun with session and workshop in these 2 days.

I have some sessions this year.

Long talk: FOSS & Education in Taiwan with Ezilla project

Short talk: Easy Install Nagios Server with openSUSE 13.1

And in All stars: Introduce openSUSE community in Taiwan

We have strong design team this year.
It still in my office right now :-)

I want to thank our sponsors
SUSE / HP / Firefox / CSDN / BLUG / owncloud / GNOME.Asia

Without our sponsors, we can't have such lovely summit.

The most important for me is

"We got lots of SMILE"

Thanks our great volunteers
Thanks all your contributions.

All I have to say is " THANKS YOU "

Jun 14, 2014

GNOME.Asia Summit 2014

The seventh GNOME.Asia Summit host come back to Beijing. after Seoul, Hong Kong, Bangalore, Taipei, Ho-Chi-Minh City and Beijing.
I want thank all people coming GNOME.Asia Summit 2014.

We have awesome video team this year.

You could take a short view for 2 days activities. They will have new video for whole summit, I guess. :p
We play event video every end of the day. ^__^

Day 1