COSCUP-GAS IRC meeting notes 20100615

[Pockey <pockey beijinglug org>]

Dear all,

Please find below the meeting notes prepared by Ernest for your
reference: 


     1. Weekly review
        
              * Status of budget / sponsorship. 
                      * [Info] we secured Trend and Canonical last week.
                        received google's logo. working on Yahoo, a
                        local education center, deviceVM.  
                      * [Info] the number is now confirmed 824,000 NTD
                        (~26k USD), received 500,000 NTD (~16k USD). 
                      * [Info] GASC is still following tightly with
                        oracle and a few other potential sponsors,
                        hopefully GASC can secure USD 5-8K as soon as
                        possible 
                      * [Info] next week is the deadline of CFP. which
                        would be also deadline of CFS (if sponsors want
                        to have tech talk) 
                      * [Budget] the budget reminds the same, but we
                        have a problem on number of chairs and desks for
                        bof and lunch. team is checking the price. 
                      * [AI] Rex send updated sponsors list to GASC 
              * Status of CfP / program 
                      * [Info] the total of submission is 37: 7 / 20 is
                        for GNOME, 30 / 36 for COSCUP (one lightning
                        talk) 
                      * [AI] PockeyLam and terral register accounts
                        on http://registrano.com/, and COSCUP team could
                        enable their account to see the last data. 
     1. Website 
              * Status of website 
                      * [Info] http://2010.gnome.asia and www.gnome.asia are actually running on the exact same code base.
                        from the GAS side we updated the website with
                        significant changes. just in the database we
                        chose a different template for that page. 
                      * [AI] COSCUP team would add VISA Info and Hotel
                        pages on the web site. (it's now available
                        on http://wiki.coscup.org/visainfo, need to have
                        it uploaded to the web.) 
     2. Marketing 
              * Status of Marketing 
                      * [AI] Pockey confirm that if we can list Brian
                        Cameron as a potential speaker from GNOME
                        Foundation for GNOME3 on eDM. ("GNOME Board
                        director of GNOME Foundation, Brian Cameron will
                        introduce the latest GNOME 3 technology（to be
                        confirm）" ) 
     3. Other Topics 
              * VISA to Taiwan 
                      * [AI] GASC can have a list of these people who
                        need a invitation document from Taipei. 
--
Deng-Wei Chiang (Ernest), PMP
Web Apps Development-2 Lead /
Integration Management Consultant
ShiaHe Information Ltd. Taiwan

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