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

[Mario Behling <mb mariobehling de>]

Hi,

this time it is easiest to send them by email. Preferably as odp and
also as pdf, if possible.

Thanks,

Mario

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Emily Chen <emilychen522 gmail com> wrote:
> Yes, sure. Send in another email.
>
> Do we have a method for speakers to upload their slides, or you plan to
> collect them through emails?
>
> -Emily
>
> 2009/12/6 Mario Behling <mb mariobehling de>
>>
>> Hi Pockey,
>>
>> I think people were a bit exhausted after the summit. Emily and I
>> talked about collecting presentations at the summit.
>>
>> @Emily: Could you send me a zip with the talks you have?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mario
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Pockey Lam <pockey beijinglug org> wrote:
>> > 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
>> >>
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