Sponsor speakers to Summit

[Emily Chen <emilychen522 gmail com>]

Hi all,

Currently I have got several request from speakers who need financial assistant to summit. I think we can generate a list of proposed people for us to consider provide additional money for their travel. We can priority this list by why they need funding, how much each would cost.
We have already fund Will Walker's air travel, so we don't have too much extra budget on the sponsorship(about $1600 from our current budget. If we got more sponsorship, we will have more funding). So we can think about partly sponsor some speakers based the priorities.

The request I have received:
-Andy Fitzsimon (Based in HK)

Andy is an Australian designer living in Hong Kong specializing in
graphic internationalization. He has been part of multimedia industry
for 10 years and currently is a developer for open source creative
projects like Inkscape and the open clipart library.
Andy is coming to GNOME.ASIA to share his passion for the GNOME
technologies that enable creativity without borders.

-Mohammad Anwari (Based in Finland)

http://launchpad.net/~mdamt

-Kimmo Hamalaninen (Based in Finland)

"I've been working with the Maemo software (previously known as Open Source Software Operations, or OSSO) in Nokia for five years, i.e. since the beginning of Nokia internet tablets."

-Alfred Peng (Based in Singapore)

One of our committee member of GNOME.Asia Summit.

If you have other candidates in your mind, please add it to our list and explain why and how much we will sponsor them.

Let's do it quick, because apply for visa to China takes time.

Thanks,
Emily