Re: Sponsor speakers, $400 for each

[Pockey Lam <pockey beijinglug org>]

Hi Emily, 

Their talks look very interesting! I think it's reasonable to sponsor
RMB 2,800 (400 usd) for their effort to join and make contribution to
the event. 

If the budget allows, sure we should do it! Actually we did it for Linux
Developer Symposium 2008 and we will do it for OOoCon 2008 too. 

Let's work out the budget with cost and sponsor fee and see how many of
speakers we can afford to sponsor :) 

Cheers,
Pockey

On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 21:49 +0800, Emily chen wrote:
> 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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