> <mailto:
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
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