Re: Sponsor speakers to Summit

[Emily chen <Emily Chen Sun COM>]

Hi Richard,

I have already contact Muhammad Takdir and added him into our sponsor 
speakers' list, sent to GNOME board.

-Emily

Richard Sun wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >