GNOME. Asia summit talk - 2011

1. Contributions made by a
newbie to
the free desktop's
“Empathy”

2. GNOME for a Linux Beginner

3. My involvement with GNOME
User
Reporter
Bugsquadder
Developer

4. Ohloh Statistics
Empathy
➔
October 2010 – Present: 17 commits
Telepathy
➔
February 2011 – Present: 1 commit
Telepathy Idle
➔
February 2011 – Present: 1 commit
GNOME
➔
October 2010 – Present: 3 commits

5. What Empathy offers?
● Instant messaging
● Multi-user chats
● Supports accounts of multiple protocols
● One-to-one Voice and video chats
● File transfers
● Debug logs to assist bug reporting/resolution

6. My Empathy
Contributions
:)

18. GNOME Outreach Program
for Women Internships

19. Why is GOPW so awesome
✔ Inspired by Google Summer of Code
Motive - balancing the gender ratio of the
✔
community
Removes the fear of competing in a field “not meant for
✔
women” and with men who are stereotyped as “technical”.
✔ Cleaning up the community-
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Women_in_Open_Source
http://live.gnome.org/CodeOfConduct
✔ Opening opportunities to work from home for women.

20. How can we create maximum
awareness about it
➔Email invitations to the past year participants
➔Create Google groups
➔Get advertisements posted on feeds and blogs
outside the GNOME world but with a large
technical audience
➔Getting more supporters of GNOME and be
open to receive support in non-monitory ways
focusing on outreach and increasing mutual
recognition

21. Time for some action?

22. Let's see live demonstrations of
some of my branches (some are not
yet merged upstream)-
●Leave/Join Chat, /part command
●/nick command works only for accounts
supporting it
●Save all button in Debug Window
●Contact blocking and report abuse(which I re-
based for Danielle)
●Account Manager could not be contacted-
runtime error display dialog

23. Want to get quickly started?
http://live.gnome.org/QuickStart
➔Find your favorite GNOME application's page on
http://live.gnome.org
➔Report bugs/ Pick up ones you want to fix from
your bugzilla
➔Get the source code
➔Get the reference manuals for common libraries
http://library.gnome.org/devel/
➔Log in to the application's IRC channel for quick
and precise assisting links

24. Change the world!!!
Get Known!

25. Thank You!
Chandni Verma
(IRC nick: glassrose)