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Sarup Banskota
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: [08 gmail (dot) com sbanskota [08] gmail (dot) com]
IRC: banas on Libera.Chat, in:
#fedora-design #fedora-india
Badges (47)
Involvement Master Editor Senior Editor Junior Editor Associate Editor Let Me Introduce Myself Baby Badger Paranoid Panda Junior Badger (Badger I) FOSSASIA 2014 Speaker FOSSASIA 2014 Attendee White Rabbit Bloggin' it! (Planet I) Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Don't Call it a Comeback Egg Secretary General Ambassador Nuancier 21 Chief Editor Crypto Badger FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Embryo Tadpole with Legs Speak Up! Pixel Ninja Summer Coder SFD Organizer Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) Grandmaster Editor Mugshot Tadpole Top 500 Blog Lobber (Planet VI) Flock 2014 Speaker Party Pirate Flock 2014 Attendee Design Ninja Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Let's have a party (Fedora 21) Nuancier (F22) Origin Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Froglet Adult Frog
 

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'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: [TODO blog post, expected Nov 9, 2014]. 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 12, 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:
    • 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:

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