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

[Mario Behling <mb mariobehling de>]

Hi,

yes, please send me the slides.

Thanks,

Mario


On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:25 AM, An Nguyen <konqueror112 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After the summit, I've received a lot of requests from the local community
> for the slides of our speakers. So I think that will be great if we can let
> them download those slides. If you guys want to have any of the
> saigonluggers' slides, we will send you right away.
>
> Cheers
> An.
>
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Mario Behling <mb mariobehling de> wrote:
>>
>> 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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