Re: Weekly report - Sep 12nd,2008

[Will LaShell <will lashell net>]

On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 00:02 +0800, Emily Chen wrote:
> One more thing, we have reserved another small room in the venue. 
> Because we have got about 30 + talks and we need an extra room.
> 
> Will, we need to update the schedule and add a new room called : No. 2 
> Conference Room
> 

Added.

> Cheers,
> Emily
> 
> On 09/12/08 23:52, Emily Chen wrote:
> > 1. Motorola has confirmed to be Silver Sponsors! Great news. We will 
> > add Motorola on our website once I get logo,link and introduction from 
> > them.
> >

Please note that we -really- need some more text from the sponsors.  The
page looks a little bare. This is an excellent opportunity for the
sponsors to talk more about themselves. 


> > 2. Currently we already have about 190 people registered. See below data
> > =========================================
> > Total: 222 Active: 195
> > I will attend two days of GNOME.Asia summit: 157
> > I will attend the first day of GNOME.Asia summit: 36
> > I will attend the second day of GNOME.Asia summit: 2
> > Inform me about the next GNOME.Asia summit in 2009: 17
> > =========================================
> > One thing we have to think in advance is that the first 300 will have 
> > gift packages and lunch provided. I am sure we will have more than 400 
> > to attend. We have to inform them that the registration is closed but 
> > they are still encouraged to come without food and packages.

Do you want to really close registration?  It would be useful to keep
letting people register so that we have more data about the attendants
to the conference, especially since we have the option in registration
to "Tell me about next years Guadec" 

We could let them register, but state that as a late registrant they
will not receive a gift package?   It is only a thought.  

> >
> > 3. We plan to have a lightning talk session in our summit. Each talk 
> > will be in 5 mins, let's call for nonparticipants and try to find 10 
> > speakers want to try Lightning talk first in China.
> > 4. Let's figure out a list of proposed people and sponsor them to 
> > Summit ASAP.

This needs to be done within the next week, otherwise Visa times will
not be able to be met in many countries.

> >
> > Nice weekend,
> > Emily
> >
> >
> >
>