Re: [guadec-list] Re: Press team: help needed

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

Just following up..

Was this done by anybody?

sri

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 11:44 +0200, Quim Gil wrote:
> Some more data... 
> 
> Can someone please upload a web page in guadec.org with the collection
> of links provided here? There are many interesting but almost hidden
> pages...
> 
> 
> > - Number of developers coming to Barcelona?
> 
> 315 registered today, 500 expected (and no reason by now to change this
> expectation). 
> 
> More than 64 bungalows booked in the GNOME Village at Vilanova Park: you
> don't get so many free software developers sleeping "together" so
> easily. I bet many people (journalists included) would be interested in
> seeing http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC2006/GNOMEVillage
> 
> 
> > - Represented groups of gnome project (core, gtk, gpe etc.?)?
> 
> We don't know, although the http://guadec.org/GUADEC2006/schedule and
> the http://guadec.org/GUADEC2006/tagcloud can give a hint. You can also
> browse the profiles of:
> 
> People planning to stay the whole week:
> http://guadec.org/profile/participants/the%20whole%20week
> 
> The 3 core days:
> http://guadec.org/profile/participants/the%203%20core%20days
> 
> 
> 
> > - The countries who will be represented by developers (US etc.)?
> 
> Although "represented" is too much (i.e. a Russian guy living in Finla
> nd and working for Nokia count as Russian representative?), this is
> something we should have asked since the beginning, yes. 
> 
> I guess all the EU countries, and as far as I remember Serbia, Check
> Republic, Hungary, Letonia, Norway, Turkey, Iran, India, China, Mongolia
> (to be confirmed, visa in progress), Nigeria (visa in progress), Dodji
> Seketeli is from Togo and living in France, I wonder if we have South
> Africans, Canada, USA, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Australia, New
> Zealand.
> 
> Maybe there are more between the companies' employees...
> 
>  
> 
> > - Biggest companies represented by developers (Novell, Sun, HP?)?
> 
> http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC2006/PrintedContent/ProfList
> 
> 
> 
> > - Most important slots at "GNOME Core"-Conference (3-5 examples)?
> 
> http://guadec.org/GUADEC2006/schedule/Core
> 
> Apart from the keynotes, see the "UPC Big" column and judge by yourself.
> 
> > - The names, functions, companies and countries of our vips/keynote-speakers?
> 
> http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC2006/PrintedContent/CoreKeynoter
> 
> is what we have now
> 
> 
> > - Informations about main sponsors how should be named (Gold Sponsors/All?)?
> 
> http://guadec.org/GUADEC2006/sponsors
> 
> I think it's not bad to spend 2 lines enumerating the cool list of
> sponsors we have, adding te co-organizers (specially the Generalitat de
> Catalunya and Campus de la Mediterr�a. Maybe changing a bit the sort
> making sure the worldwide known brands (Nokia, Google, Intel etc) are
> visible. Ypu could also provide some description about the not so know
> i.e. OSDL is "home to Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux", Fluendo is
> a Barcelona based company with an international team... more in the
> descriptions sent by the own sponsors. 
> 
> 
> > If i get all that informations i can write down the release in near time. I can help you
> > as media contact in Barcelona, if you have a spanish cellular phone there. For whole
> > the time a have a car in Barcelona, so i can do shuttle service for journalists/vips. 
> 
> Great. I wish I'll have some time to invest also in PPRR with
> journalists since I'm not bad dealing with them, English is still a
> language barrier with the local press and a Catalan speaker inside an
> international event is part of the "exotism".
> 
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Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>