User:Sarupbanskota

Sarup Banskota
Sarup Banskota Sarup Banskota
Personal Information
Home:	India
Fedora-specific Information
FAS-Name:	sarupbanskota
Fedora-Mail:	sarupbanskota@fedoraproject.org
Miscellaneous Information
Private Mail:	[at gmail (dot) com sbanskota08 [at] gmail (dot) com]
IRC:	banas on Libera.Chat, in:
	#fedora-design #fedora-india
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I'm a 20 year old student from India, excited about FLOSS tools, people and events. Oh, and I especially love FLOSS designers, so I'm trying to be of help. Try GlitteryGallery!

You'll find me blogging at http://sarupbanskota.github.io. Contact information on the about page. If you're trying to locate my older blog posts, some of them are still available at thirstyforcola.

Presence in Fedora

I've been involved with the Fedora project for almost two years now. I'm part of the design team, mostly directing my efforts towards GlitterGallery. I'm also Fedora Ambassador for the Asia Pacific region. I was a Google Summer of Code student in 2013 & 2014, and look forward to mentoring in the upcoming years.

• I've co-authored GlitterGallery for the Fedora design team. v0.1 is out, though we're still shaky with getting it adopted. Read about it on GitHub, Fedora Wiki or help us deliver faster.
• I'm working on extracting the nice bits from GlitterGallery, and inventing nicer bits to create a front-end framework/kit called Embrace. Read the discussion on GitHub.
• I'm mentoring two students and working on creating a better experience for folks to get onboarded onto the Fedora Project. Read about it or watch my talk from Flock 2014 that sparked it.
• I'm mentoring two students and working on creating a platform for folks to store their Fedora work history. Read about it: [TODO blog post, expected Nov 20, 2014]
• As an ambassador, I'm constantly helping bring new folks to the community, although I have to admit I'm biased towards bringing involvement to the design team and GlitterGallery.

Presence Otherwise

I hang out in several communities and try to help where I can.

• I'm currently doing the web/infra work for Fossography, the most awesome conference for FLOSS designers to participate. Look at the current progress.
• I help run the University tech{know}logy club, in several ways:
  • Posters [TODO upload on GG]
  • Sessions I've helped happen:
    • Python workshops 2013
    • Software Freedom Day 2013
    • Google Summer of Code Meetup 2013
    • Git Workshop 2013
    • Freshers Induction Program 2014 (remotely).
  • I've mentored several students in the past with FOSSy stuff, some of who have ended up on boarding various FOSS communities. Currently, I'm focusing on getting more girl students to participate in FOSS communities, through direct mentoring.
• I've attended several Ruby India community meetups and conferences as an Opportunity Scholar, and even did a Grit workshop in Mysore.

Talks

Very often, I speak at conferences, do workshops and mentor students around FOSS, the Fedora community, Ruby on Rails and Designing for the web. Here's the interesting bunch from 2014, along with links to resources where applicable:

• Tech{know}logy Meet, Coimbatore: Using open source software to uncover extra terrestrials
• GardenCity RubyConf 2014, Bangalore: Introduction to GlitterGallery
• Mysore Ruby meetup 2014, Mysore: Do you haz the grit?
• FOSSASIA 2014, Phnom Penh: Getting started with FOSS techniques
• FOSSASIA 2014, Cambodia: Bringing GlitterGallery into Fedora
• The Goa Project 2014, Goa: Tapping designer thought process
• Libre Graphics Meeting 2014, Leipzig: Taking the designer's office online
• Flock 2014, Prague: Curious Case of Fedora Freshmen
• Software Freedom Day 2014, Hanoi: FOSS 101 and other resources
• Debutsav 2014 , Amritapuri: Contributing to Fedora