[gcompris-devel] Introducing me and my interest

[Kesha Shah]

Hi Roopesh,

-Regarding the size of sponsorship, I would be great if I can get travel
support.
-I believe in-person meeting, having interactions and attending will have a
huge impact over webinars.
-Sure. This was one of the things in my mind like adding support to Hindi
and small Hindi alphabet recognization and playing activity.
Also, in the joining different province to make a country activity which
exist now (oops ! I cant recall the name), I also thought of adding Indian
states- this will make small Indian kids recognize different states, where
it is located, how many are there etc.
With a little more effort, if we can include capital of every state that
would also be great !
An actiivity regarding recipes of Indian dishes will also be cool :)
These are few which involves adding activities specific to Indian audience.

Best Regards,

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:50 PM, roopesh shenoy <shenoy.roopesh at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey Kesha
>
> Few questions -
>
> - What is the size of sponsorship you are looking for?
> - Is it necessary to attend this conference instead of viewing webinars or
> using other online media?
> - Would you be interested in an internship that involves adding activities
> specific to Indian audience to a GCompris fork? (we would contribute the
> patches upstream but whether they get accepted or not will depend on the
> project owner Bruno)
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Roopesh
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Kesha Shah <kesha.shah1106 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am an undergraduate student at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information
>> and Communication Technology. I have known the FOSS culture and Open
>> source
>> organizations since past 8 months and love it.
>>
>> I belong to a university, where there are brilliant coders and students
>> with great potentials, but there are few who have got in-depth knowledge
>> about open source, how anyone can become a part of it and there exists
>> many
>> misconceptions about it. I have read up how Gnome supports
>> new contributes and coders and encourages them and I really like it.
>>
>> This is often considered as a male-dominated field, where hardly women are
>> aware of it. To increase the awareness among women in software
>> development,
>> hats off to programs like Outreach Program for Women. I was unfortunate to
>> hear about it after the deadline elasped and couldn't participate in it
>> but
>> fortunate enough to know its hand in hand another program- Google Summer
>> of
>> Code and be a part of it.
>>
>> Amongst the 17 students selected from our university this year, I am the
>> only girl student. None of my female batchmates or female seniors present
>> at college have got the same opportunity as me. Many of my batchmates,
>> juniors and friends ask me how do I start. I do explain them to the best I
>> can, but still I feel something is lacked and I can't guide them 100%.
>>
>> I use Gnome and its various softwares. One of them, I feel more attached
>> with is GCompris. My younger sister loves it and plays it all day long. I
>> have many plans in head for its improvement. I have downloaded its source
>> but had got no time to hack upon it due to current project. I plan working
>> for it after september and do a full time project for its improvement and
>> adding new activities.
>>
>> I am willing to attend GUADEC 2013 to learn more about Gnome, involve my
>> fellow batchmates, junior and friends and also for myself to contribute to
>> it. I want to meet this awesome community and wonderful people from it,
>> but
>> I am in financial crisis. It would be great if I can get some sponsership
>> so that I can attend this conference and bridge the gap.
>>
>> I am interested in many talks which includes First Step Towards
>> Contributing, Gnome in Open Source Community, Gnome Outreach from Three
>> Point zero to Hero,FLOSS community outreaches, Outreach Preogram for
>> Women-Lessons in Collaboration, Foss & Education. I am also willing to
>> volunteer, if given an opportunity to come which may smooth the management
>> and I can get to help this awesome community :)
>>
>> I know it has been too long, but thanks for spending you time and reading
>> it :)
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> --
>> Kesha Shah.
>>
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-- 
Kesha Shah.