Re: Sponsor speakers to Summit

["Richard Sun" <x2rich gmail com>]

Hi, all

It will be very nice if we could sponsor Muhammad Takdir.
http://wiki.ubuntu-id.org/MuhammadTakdir
And he will make a presentation about "BlankOn Minimalis" Linux
distribution derived from Ubuntu.

Thanks,

Richard


2008/9/12 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
>
>
>