Welcome Siska!! Thanks for your host in GNOME.Asia Summit ^^ Thanks for plan GNOME party and class
^___^ Max On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Siska Iskandar <seattle.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all. > > Let me introduce myself first. My name is Siska Restu Anggraeny Iskandar, > but you can call me Siska for short. I was born in Banjar, West Java, > Indonesia and grew up in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is a different province > with different culture and language. I am currently in last year of Bachelor > Degree with Informatics Engineering majoing in State Islamic University > Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta. > > In May 2015, I join and help GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 and become local > organizer of that event. If you are there, probably you see me, I am the one > who hold mic all day. I am the MC :D. [0] > > My journey with open-source began in 2009 when I got into Vocational High > School with Computer Engineering and Networking. We got Networking Subject > which is we should getting know RedHat and Fedora, and etc. > > In the first year of my university, I find digital or technology term is > common thing in my life. Being an IT student give me a rapid update about > its technology, but how about our social environment? Technology has been my > lifestyle but I do wish that I could share my experience, knowledge and > prosperity to society. > > From last couple years, I’ve been focused for help and contribute on > awareness of women in technology. One of my concern is the housewives and > motherhood, the very base user in technology. We help them by teach and > introduce them to newest technology or the explain the nearest technology > around them. In March, I started to take a dip to motherhood to introduce > them to the FOSS. [1]. The movement is called "Perempuan Sadar Teknologi" or > in English is called Women Awareness in Technology. > > After joining GNOME.Asia Summit 2015, I intend to attend GUADEC 2015, too. > Then I registered as volunteer for GUADEC and got sponsorship from GNOME > Foundation (thanks GNOME <3 ) to go Gutenberg, Sweden and meet a huge number > of contributor, user and developer of GNOME. > > Right now, I am preparing GNOME 3.18 Release Party in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. > We already got place and some sponsor, including from GNOME Foundation! It > is my pleasure to host GNOME event here. But we haven't receive the fund > yet. Hehehehe. > > We plan to not only having a party but also create some simple class from > motherhood and housewives to introduce them to FOSS and anti-piracy > campaign. If you all had a free time around first week of October, we will > pleased to meet you! > > > [0] http://2015.gnome.asia/ > [1] > https://iskandarsiska.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/introduce-foss-to-motherhood/ > > PS. GNOME 3.18 Release Party will happens at 3rd October, 2015 2 PM till 5 > PM GMT +7 Maps of Crystal Lotus Hotel, Yogyakarta > -- > All the best, > Siska Iskandar > WhatsApp : +62 8383 7177 191 > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
