Re: Fwd: notes from our meeting (In GNOME.Asia Summit 2009 )

[Pockey Lam <pockey beijinglug org>]

Hi Mario, 

Have we sent emails to every registered / attendees to ask them to
upload pictures in different media , with the same tag of gnome.asia? 

And also blog about the event :)

Besides, where can we find the speakers' presentations as I haven't seen
them in the gnome.asia website yet... some audiences are asking. Thanks!

Regards,
Pockey

On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 00:47 +0800, Emily Chen wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> This is the meeting notes of GNOME.Asia Committee member meeting. 
> 
> Add your comments and new ideas after this summit 2009. 
> 
> -emily 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>
> Date: 2009/11/22
> Subject: notes from our meeting
> To: Emily Chen <emilychen522 gmail com>
> 
> 
> GNOME Asia Summit Meeting, 10:45am-11:40am
> 
> Attended:
> Pockey
> Emily
> Fred
> Mario
> Stormy
> 
> Agenda:
> Past year, this year, next year
> About everything
> 
> Past year is already done.
> 
> Is GNOME Asia just for the event or do we want to do something else
> like users group? Or do we want to position ourselves with the other
> desktop environments.
> * promote gnome technologies
> * raising awareness
> * for developers and users
> 
> Beijing GNOME User Group:
> * Beijing is the beginning
> * GNOME is new to people
> * Promote GNOME in Asia, get developers together
> * Then can target users
> * Build GNOME community in Asia
> * Asia is different because everyone doesn't speak English
> 
> Follow the model of Debian with DebConf
> * Difficult to establish all the relations, ask for sponsors, all at
> once. Thing is to establish the relationships.
> * DebConf has a global team with sponsors each year.
> * Local partners for internet, rooms, food, ...
> * The money is gotten on the global level. The same sponsors join
> again and support it.
> * 150 volunteers come one week before the event to set it up.
> * 5,000-6,000 attendees, all developers
> * There was a mini debconf in Taiwan, 40-50 attendees, AsianDeb, next
> year in Thailand
> * Hosts make the application 2 years before
> 
> * Do the call soon. Get the spot for next year and immediately put a
> call for 2011.
> * Candidates for next year: 
>   * Singapore (Emily talked to Alfred, talk to Red Hat, Eugene), good
> community, hosting at a university
>   * Taiwan, Thailand, maybe India, Cambodia, 
>   * talk to local communities first
>   * send out call for hosting the event. ACTION OWNER: Emily
>   * after the call goes out, contact the local teams. ACTION OWNER:
> Emily & others
>   * If people don't want to sponsor this year, we should ask them to
> consider future years
> * Sponsors
>   * We need to ask for money as soon as we know where it is
> 
> This year's event feedback:
> * Lost time on the website (was hard to do remotely)
>   * DebConf local team owns website. GUADEC too but it is an issue.
> * Connection to US made the website very slow
> * Professional solution (expectation, pentabof)
> * Why is there no open source solution for events
> * Mediawiki (event organization), wordpress (event blogging) and
> pentabof (Registration)
> * Very short time to prepare
> * Paperwork is difficult
> * Must be a local company to organize an event in Vietnam
> * Verify that the GNOME Foundation is a real company is difficult, we
> got a stamp
> * Might be easier if you have one strong international open source
> company in that country
> * More international than Beijing. Cambodian, Signapore, Chinese, ...
> * Volunteers were great
> * Gathering the press articles
> * Has people walking around collecting pictures
> 
> Other ideas:
> * Ask people to write blog entries before to advertise
> * Gather flickr, twitters, etc in one site (Did it in Beijing, have
> code.)
> * Have signage to tell people how to tag, twitter, etc
> * Write a how to have a GNOME Asia (put in gnome.org wiki)
> * Have a conference planning hackfest
> * Have GUADEC stuff (not always relevant), have How to Plan a Software
> Freedom Day event in Beijing
> * Schedule, website, announcements in the morning (about
> food, ...), ...
> * Flexible but some stuff (like announce what it is even whatever it
> is) should always happen
> 
> ACTION: ask all sponsored people to blog OWNER: Emily
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> asia-summit-list mailing list
> asia-summit-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/asia-summit-list