Sankarshan and others, now that you are subscribed to the list, we
probably don't need to continue
including all of the individual people's email. I include it one last
time just to make sure everyone is actually subscribed that should be.
The sooner you have that meeting to discuss the needs of hosting an
event such as GNOME.Asia
will be better. I have an example timeline for you to take a look at
that I will be sending you soon.
The good news no matter what is that you already have prepositioned
resources to leverage for the event.
The website already exists, and can be updated with a new theme and
add the features necessary to keep
moving forward with the event (such as registration fees etc etc).
You also have the knowledge of the Summit Committee
to help you with your path as the Local event team.
Something that will make a large impact on the Summit for you, will be
the attendance estimate. You have to plan for number X,
with a maximum pre-registration of Y. Hopefully, you end up with Z
which is everyone -plus- people that just happen to be
interested due to seeing a promotion! These numbers are important to
determine because they will drive the size of venue that will
be required.
Sincerely,
Will LaShell
Emily chen wrote:
Hi Sankarshan,
Thinking about a good date for the Summit is very important. For the
first summit, we have changed the date several times which is not good.
So the idea of research the current event calendar in India is
excellent.
Please do share with us if you have such event calendar in India.
-Emily
Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ) wrote:
[sorry about the reply-all, have to quickly sum up what has been happening]
Hi,
On 1/7/09, Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ) <sankarshan randomink org> wrote:
A big hello to everyone on this mail,
I just subscribed to the mailing list, so I guess the talks will happen there.
Thanks for the list URL and blog link Emily - they helped :)
So, here's a quick update on what I have done in the days since Stormy
had sent in the initial mail.
- posed the potential of hosting the GNOME.Asia summit to 2 academic
institutions with a track record of holding regular events and having
an in-place events committee or the like
In a stroke of luck, Arun C (vimwizard) from IIT-Chennai has been
talking with the CompSciEngg / CSE folks at his place and we are
planning to call them up and talk about what GNOME.Asia is all about
and what it takes as a host for this event.
Meanwhile I am waiting on IIT-Mumbai to revert for another meeting
based on the event calendar they have.
Shall keep folks updated on this.
~s
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