My somewhat incomplete notes from the GUADEC 2015 Asia BoF session

GUADEC 2015 Asia BoF session notes.txt

Briefing & History of GNOME Asia - Emily Chen
Presentation: http://ur1.ca/niziy

Briefings reports about FOSS communities 
	Indonesia - Estu
	Challenge: Get people to understand that they can contribute and be part of the community	
	Initiative/Ideas (applies to other countries as well):
		*Reach out to Universities
		*Get more people to learn about GSoC 
		*Create excitement around release parties
		*Organize Hackfests/Workshops
		
	NOTE: Gifts/swags are popular and can plan an important role to get people excited 
	about a project/product. 
    
        India - Srinivasa Ragavan/Abdeali J Kothari
 	Challenge: Keep contributors as many students move on to jobs within the proprietary 
 	software industry and stop being active contributors involved in the community.
 
	China - Emily Chen
	Open Source alliance Kaiyuanshe (http://www.kaiyuanshe.cn/) established in 2014
	Initiatives:     
	  	*Open Source ecosystem report 2th Edition
    		*Open Source contribution survey
 	  	*Summer of Code like program 
	  	*Online hackathons
    		*Provide Docker image based developer environments
    		*Open Source gallery - provide Docker images of FOSS projects
    	  	
Misc
-There is a large demand for Swags in Asia
-Can the foundation make the budget request & reimbursement process 
for small to medium sized event's easier?
-Would be great with more contribution mentors based in Asia

General team to-do:
-Create GNOME.Asia calendar schedule.
-Keep contact with local FOSS communities and organizations in Asia including: Mozilla, OpenSuse 
and Linux Foundation Japan.