Currently I have got several request from speakers/participants who
need financial
assistant to summit. I generate a list of proposed people
for us to consider providing additional money for their travel.
The request I have received:
-Andy Fitzsimon (Based in HK) | Need sponsor the air
ticket
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.
-Alfred Peng (Based in Singapore) | Need partly sponsor the air ticket
One of our committee member of GNOME.Asia Summit.
Alfred is an open source
contributor currently staying in Singapore. He has contributed to
several different open source communities, for example, the development
of Evolution and Evolution-JESCS in GNOME community. Now Alfred is a
developer for open source projects like Songbird which is based on
GNOME's GStreamer platform.
Alfred would like to attend the GNOME.Asia summit to share his idea
about desktop multimedia that could be one of the major concerns of
Chinese desktop users. And he is helping the summit committee to build
up a mashup web application to aggregate all the summit related
information from Flickr, Youtube, Twitter etc.
-Kimmo Hamalaninen (Based in Finland) | Need partly sponsor his travel,
he will pay other expense by himself.
"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."
Kimmo is going to talk about "Out-of-memory management in a mobile
GNOME device"
- Ole Tang (Based in Singapore) | Need partly sponsor the air ticket
His bio, see http://www.gnome.asia/en/schedule/event/3/
Ole is going to talk about: OpenMoko - Free your mobile phone
- Muhammad Takdir (Based in Indonesia) | Need partly sponsor the air
ticket
His bio: http://wiki.ubuntu-id.org/MuhammadTakdir
Muhammad is going to talk about: BlankOn Minimalis: A
Lightweight+Full-Featured GNOME Desktop
- Eugene Teo (Based in Singapore) | Need partly sponsor the air
ticket
Eugene Teo works for the Red Hat Security Team. He
enjoys finding bugs in the Linux kernel. He has been an active member
of the Linux and open source community in Singapore for over a decade,
having held different portfolios within the Linux Users' Group
(Singapore). Eugene has spoken at numerous conferences, including the
Red Hat Summit and Linux Conference Australia.
Eugene would like to attend the GNOME.Asia Summit to
share his experience in writing SystemTap scripts. SystemTap provides
an infrastructure to simplify the gathering of information about a
running system, so that it may be further analysed. This analysis
assists in identifying the underlying cause of a possible performance
or functional problem.
- Lei Zhou (Student, based in HK) | Need travel cost
reimbursement
Peter Zhou is one of the KDE developers currently in Hong Kong. He
wrote the scripting interface for Amarok project, and he is also the
writer of several Amarok2 scripts for Chinese online services in
particular.
He is going to the GNOME Asia summit, to share his experience about
working with KDE and yet localizing free desktops by adding local
online services support.
We have about 7 people in the list, how about provide reimbursement
$400 for each of them? That's about 400 * 7 = $2800 .
What's your opinion about this? I need your feedback asap.
Thanks,
Emily
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