Re: Shared call-for-participants & Proposal
- From: Mario Behling <mb mariobehling de>
- To: Frederic Muller <fred beijinglug org>
- Cc: asia-summit-list <asia-summit-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Shared call-for-participants & Proposal
- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:12:52 +0800
Yesterday eve, I met up with Preetam Rai and a few others. Preetam is
involved into Barcamp organization all over South East Asia. He
offered to promote the summit at Barcamp in Cambodia at the beginning
of Oct. Hope we get some people joining up from there as well.
- Mario
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Frederic Muller <fred beijinglug org> wrote:
> My experience related to booth is that it's good to invite other
> communities. The exhibition area is always a great place to chat, exchange
> ideas and ask questions.
>
> If you can invite guys from Hacao Linux or babyloo (looks like a java
> though, but it's a Vietnamese led project) then you'd have the opportunity
> to get other FOSS communities together which definitely can't hurt.
>
> There are surely others, I'm just familiar with the 2 above.
>
> Fred
>
> Emily Chen wrote:
>>
>> That's great news!
>>
>> About your questions, who are our sponsors, That's a good question. This
>> is the priority 1 thing we need to work on these days. Mario, We need to
>> send out the call for participants and proposals to our potential sponsors
>> this Friday.
>>
>> How many booths? it depend on how many sponsors we have this year, and how
>> many community or club will present in this summit. For example, last year,
>> we have about 9 booths, 7 of them are our sponsors: Sun, Nokia, Mozilla,
>> Motorola, Redhat, Google, Lemote, the other two booths are for Beijing Linux
>> Users Group as co-organizer and CSDN which is magazine as our media partner.
>>
>> Let's plan a room for the booths, like a public hall. It could be the same
>> place where our registration desk will be placed. I understand it depends on
>> the venue. So just my suggestions.
>>
>> -Emily
>>
>> 2009/9/22 Anthony Fernandes <anthony saigonlinux com
>> <mailto:anthony saigonlinux com>>
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I'm happy to say that Quang Trung has given me a YES - but have
>> several questions which I cannot answer very clearly - example:
>> who are the sponsors, how many booths we need - stuff like that.
>>
>> I would like to introduce one person to them, and would like to
>> know who this person can be.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tony
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Emily Chen
>> <emilychen522 gmail com <mailto:emilychen522 gmail com>> wrote:
>>
>> That's great. Once the venue has been confirmed, we can think
>> about announcing the summit after that.
>>
>> One question for Mario and local team:
>>
>> In the proposal, I see the expected participants are 1000,
>> that's a big number. Do you have any expectation who will be
>> those 1000 people ? How many are GNOME developers,how many
>> GNOME users? How many are from open source community, how many
>> are students. From our experience in Beijing, there were 300
>> people attend this summit, about 50 people are core GNOME
>> developers and contributors, 100 people are from open source
>> community and companies, about 150 people are students. So I
>> would like to know who will be those 1000 people for the 2nd
>> summit?
>>
>> It takes time for us to learn the local community, the summit
>> don't have to be a huge conference, just bring together the
>> GNOME people in Vietnam together, to build the GNOME community
>> in Asia. A summit with 300+ people is good enough, just from
>> my point of view.
>>
>> Thanks for all the good work did by our local team.
>> Emily
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2009/9/21 Anthony Fernandes <anthony saigonlinux com
>> <mailto:anthony saigonlinux com>>
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> It's the silent one again :-))
>>
>> Quang Trung's response is pretty positive, I have a
>> meeting with them tomorrow morning 9.00am to talk about
>> the requirements & other necessities. Hopefully, I can
>> have a confirmation also from them.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Kevin Miller, Jr.
>> <kevin miller saigonlinux com
>> <mailto:kevin miller saigonlinux com>> wrote:
>>
>> Okay, it seems that everything is set then in regards
>> to the venue.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>>
>> Hong Phuc Dang wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> what are the current steps needed to get the
>> Summit going? To my mind
>> we need to focus to get out the call for
>> participants, to get the
>> website ready and to invite sponsors.
>>
>> Concerning venues - we are progressing. We have
>> Quang Trung Software
>> City (QTSC) as a potential venue and they said
>> they would like to talk
>> with us how we could do it. Besides that, there
>> are venues such as:
>> NIIT, Aptech, UIT etc. They are all IT
>> universities, and located in
>> Dist 1 and 3 (central). We are checking locations
>> one after the other
>> and we will decide soon which are the best venues.
>> I think the global
>> team does not need take up time and resources on
>> this subject at the
>> moment. But we would be very happy and welcome any
>> help with the call,
>> website and funding.
>>
>> So, lets focus on the call and website. The event
>> will happen from Nov. 20-22.
>>
>> I am looking forward to working with everyone
>> together.
>>
>> Hen gap o Vietnam (See you in Vietnam)
>>
>> Hong Phuc
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Will LaShell
>> <will lashell net <mailto:will lashell net>> wrote:
>>
>> I really tend to agree with Brian at this
>> juncture. We need to push the
>> date back to a point we know we can actually
>> hold the conference. It is
>> completely unrealistic to expect sponsors and
>> speakers to make plans
>> when we don't have a solid time and place to
>> hold the summit.
>>
>> I want the GNOME.Asia Summit to be a signature
>> event for GNOME and the
>> free software community. We need to make sure
>> the events we promote are
>> done perfectly. If this year we delay, then so
>> be it. Our goal can still
>> be to do it annually.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Will
>>
>> On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 23:37 -0500, Brian
>> Cameron wrote:
>>
>> Is there any reason that the conference
>> needs to be the weekend of
>> November 20th? Pushing back the date,
>> even to sometime early next
>> year might be better. It will be easier
>> to find good sponsors (and
>> get everything else done also) if we have
>> more time to plan the event
>> properly without rushing too much.
>>
>> Perhaps GNOME.Asia will be a bi-annual
>> event instead of a yearly
>> event. :) Really, I don't think that
>> would be a problem. It's better
>> to do things right than to rush too much.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>> Mario Behling wrote:
>>
>> Tony, will let us know within this
>> week about the venue at Software
>> City. We have to wait until he has
>> confirmation. Then we know about
>> the details.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mario
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:14 AM,
>> Kevin Miller, Jr.
>> <kevin miller saigonlinux com
>> <mailto:kevin miller saigonlinux com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> We do not know, we do not have a
>> venue yet.
>> RMIT Vietnam confirmed that they
>> did not have the space to hold this
>> conference in November. They
>> recommend the week for Tet, the
>> Vietnamese New
>> Year, since many of the students
>> will no longer be in class.
>>
>> Tony is talking with the Quang
>> Trung Software City. I have no
>> contacted the
>> two universities until QTSC gives
>> a response.
>>
>> I am still trying to get into
>> contact with the University of
>> Technology
>> which held the Google DevFest last
>> year. They are working on another
>> event
>> with e27 from Singapore now for
>> October.
>>
>> We are doing the best we can here.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> Emily Chen wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have updated the latest
>> call-for-participants document
>> based on Pockey's
>> suggestion, I also merged the
>> draft from Shane.
>>
>> I have made below changes:
>> 1. This is not only call for
>> talks, but call for lightning
>> talks,
>> exhibitions and hands-on lab
>> 2. Explain who is our target
>> audience
>> 3. Add GNOME 3.0, School
>> software to topic areas
>> 4. Still waiting for the Theme
>> to be decided
>>
>> Click here to view the latest
>> call-for-participants:
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AW0xSSV8T7asZGhqdGo4eF82MWhqamN6bWQ5&hl=en
>>
>> <https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AW0xSSV8T7asZGhqdGo4eF82MWhqamN6bWQ5&hl=en>
>>
>> <https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AW0xSSV8T7asZGhqdGo4eF82MWhqamN6bWQ5&hl=en
>>
>> <https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AW0xSSV8T7asZGhqdGo4eF82MWhqamN6bWQ5&hl=en>>
>>
>> BTW, I need to hear the
>> opinion from Vietnam local
>> team, especially on the
>> exhibition and hands-on lab.
>> Do you have such areas in the
>> venue?
>>
>> -Emily
>>
>> 2009/9/15 Pockey Lam
>> <pockey beijinglug org
>> <mailto:pockey beijinglug org>
>> <mailto:pockey beijinglug org
>> <mailto:pockey beijinglug org>>>
>>
>> Dear Emily,
>>
>> A few suggestions on the
>> call for participants:
>>
>> maybe we should mention
>> potential audiences so they
>> have an idea
>> of who
>> they will speak to?
>>
>> 2) ask them to spread their
>> words to other potential
>> speakers in
>> any of
>> their local communities,
>> even though they may not be
>> the right
>> speaker,
>> they can help to look
>> around, maybe we miss some
>> communities in
>> Asia, so
>> the local can help us
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Pockey
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 23:55
>> +0800, Emily Chen wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I create those two docs
>> and shared them in Google Doc, so
>> everyone can
>> > edit them now.
>> >
>> > Call for participants
>> (2008 version, Mario will
>> update it with
>> Summit
>> > 2009 content):
>> >
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AW0xSSV8T7asZGhqdGo4eF82MWhqamN6bWQ5&hl=en
>>
>> <https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AW0xSSV8T7asZGhqdGo4eF82MWhqamN6bWQ5&hl=en>
>>
>>
>> <https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AW0xSSV8T7asZGhqdGo4eF82MWhqamN6bWQ5&hl=en
>>
>> <https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AW0xSSV8T7asZGhqdGo4eF82MWhqamN6bWQ5&hl=en>>
>> >
>> > Proposal :
>> >
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AW0xSSV8T7asZGhqdGo4eF82MGY1dGdqZnhn&hl=en
>>
>> <https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AW0xSSV8T7asZGhqdGo4eF82MGY1dGdqZnhn&hl=en>
>>
>>
>> <https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AW0xSSV8T7asZGhqdGo4eF82MGY1dGdqZnhn&hl=en
>>
>> <https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AW0xSSV8T7asZGhqdGo4eF82MGY1dGdqZnhn&hl=en>>
>> >
>> > I suggest differnt people
>> add comments using different
>> color. How
>> > about it ?
>> >
>> > -Emily
>>
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