User:Sarupbanskota

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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Nomadic web developer specialized in writing semantic markup and clean stylesheets. 2.5 years of experience working with the latest in responsive web design, typically on Ruby on Rails projects.

Forte:

• Wireframing products that are in a “confused” state
• Writing good HTML/CSS - I do vanilla Sass + media queries as much as I do Twitter Bootstrap
• Writing jQuery to help with interactions
• Clean website landing pages
• Responsive HTML emails
• Visualizing your data with interactive charts
• Mobile first front end, which is snappy and feels clean
• Reasonably complex backend for an admin module perhaps, with Rails

Presence within Fedora

Involved with the Fedora Project since 2013. Over the years, been helping out in multiple ways:

Design Team

• Co-authored GlitterGallery, a collaboration tool for open source designers.
• Along with Suchakra, led the redesign of the Ask Fedora Project
• Conducted front-end best practices workshops at local conferences

Ambassadors Team

• While in college, led the Fedora community, working towards attracting more Fedora users, and introducing potential contributors to starting points
• On a regional level, conducted installfests and workshops on a variety of topics ranging from generic FOSS introduction, version control, web development in Indian universities
• As Ambassador for the Asia Pacific region, helped with budget planning and conducted technical workshops at South East Asian universities and conference environments

Mentoring

• Mentored Kalpani Anuradha over Google Summer of Code 2015 to work on the Ask Fedora redesign project
• Mentored Aditya Prakash over Google Summer of Code 2015 to work on the GlitterGallery project

Presence Otherwise

I hang out in other community circles 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 used to 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 hang out at Indian Ruby community meetups and conferences and occasionally do Grit workshops.

Talks

Very often, I speak at conferences, do workshops and mentor students around FOSS, the Fedora community, Ruby on Rails and designing responsively on the web. This has become an unwieldy list, so it's going largely unmaintained:

• 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, Phnom Penh: 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
• FUDCon 2015, Pune: Version Control, you Git
• FUDCon 2015, Pune: Development done responsively (FTW)