Hello Sri, Thanks for replying! :)
Sounds great, so cool that you are involved in the Debian community. > Perhaps you can tell us what attracted you to GNOME? > Debian is what actually made me love GNOME. I worked on a self proposed idea with Debian which involved making a GNOME extension for my application. I am currently working on an IPA for GNOME 3 which will make the systems more interactive and helpful. It also involves a medium to communicate between different systems running the program. > That sounds great! Come see us on our #engagement channel on > irc.gnome.org, and chat with us and we can figure out what sort of things > you are interested in and come up with some projects. > Also keep in mind that we have an GNOME Indian list too - > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-in-list > That's cool! I have subscribed to the list. Let me also give a brief into on my thoughts about maintaining the community. What I aim of achieving through this is a better environment, especially for newbies to get started with open source projects, maintain a profile of what they are doing support such activities in colleges and once in a year, may be, bring them all together for a national level fest. While I started working on my GSoC project last year, my mentor went missing and I couldn't find a reliable source of guidance around me. I had to do learn all the stuff by myself, mostly through my mistakes. It took almost 2 weeks before I could get a thorough grip of my project. Had I found a good guide from here, I could have saved much more time. So the aim is to connect these people, through online medias. Association with GNOME can ensure incoming of more project ideas, input from a more experienced network of people and finally a valid certification for the students who work with us. There will be provision for colleges to open a club franchise in their college, through our portal, so that we can bring all of them under one tree. > In addition, I have an opportunity for you to be involved with the Indian > govt as well working on open source projects. Perhaps you could champion > GNOME for us there? > Sure. That sounds interesting! I'll be happy to help you guys in anyways possible! > I see that you had mentioned FOSDEM. Will you be there? > Not Exactly. I'll be appearing as an online speaker for the event as I cant make it to Belgium within the short period. I'll be there at FOSSASIA for sure. Regards, *Balram Pariyarath* *Fellow | Google Summer of Code 2016* *CS Head | Excel 2016* *Chairman | IEDC-MEC 2016* Computer Science and Engineering (Batch: 2013-17) Govt. Model Engineering College, Kochi-21 [image: ☎]: +91 8129130866 ✉: balb...@gmail.com
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