## SUBMITTED VERSION ##

#  Name of the project: GNOME
# Url: www.gnome.org
# Date: 4th Dec 2007
# Name of the proposer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
# Proposers involvement in the Project: I am the Marketing contact in India for the GNOME Project along with being member of the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee. I started off being translation reviewer for GNOME (bn and then bn_IN locales) thereon have been a dilettante bug reporter and intermittent blogger.

Handouts to be distributed with pointers to material: To be decided later. But other than slides we     might consider other materials to give away.

GNOME PROJECT DAY at foss.in

Pre-requisites to participate:

Interest in getting involved and contributing to GNOME. The project day is proposed to achieve the following:

o getting together the largest possible number of GNOME contributors from India
o demonstration of what they are working on etc

Thus, familiarity with the GNOME roadmap, i18n and l10n, documentation, bug triaging would be good to have.

Audience:  application developers, extension developers, open-source evangelists & enthusiasts, localizers, security experts

Theme of the day: All things GNOME, India and code push

Proposed schedule bits:

+ Opening remarks by a GNOME contributor to set the tone for the day
+ GSoC time (GSoC participants get to talk about their work)
+ Contribute to GNOME
	- l10n
	- i18n
	- documentation
	- bug triaging
	- applications that need love
+ GNOME and a11y
+ Tutorial on  glib/gtk/gstreamer/gobject
+ Gnome Cool Talk: All new cool things in gnome: Clutter, Online
desktop, Tracker.
+ Mobile Gnome: Hildon Desktop and Ubuntu Mobile Initiative. 
+ The challenges and opportunities of properly wirting multi threaded
GTK based GNOME Programs. (All do try to do it, but few get it right)
+ "Where GNOME is at, and where it will go if you help us take it there"