[Fwd: Gnome Asia Summit]

[Frederic Muller <fred beijinglug org>]

Dear all,

I have been contacted today by FPT, an IT company in Vietnam (Hanoi 
apparently), who is interested to co-organize the summit as well as 
supply volunteers and maybe even become a sponsor.

Just read the email I received and let me know how you feel about it. 
It's nice to see other parties interested and eventually willing to 
bring a bigger audience to our conference.

Thanks.

Fred
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Gnome Asia Summit
Date: 	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:49:22 +0700
From: 	namnd <namnd fpt com vn>
To: 	Frederic Muller <fred beijinglug org>



Hello Frederic Muller,
I'm Nam from FPT, an IT company in Vietnam 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FPT_Group).
I'm from Hanoi but currently I'm in a business trip to Saigon, and I met 
several SaigonLUG people here, and they told me about Gnome Asia Summit.
I was the manager of FPT Open Solutions (open source development center 
of FPT) and hosted a few big open source events. I'm eager about the 
opportunity for Vietnam to host an important international open source 
*development* event. There was many open source events in the past, but 
there was not about developing software. The CEO of FPT, Nguyễn Thành 
Nam, is also a big supporter of free software movement (he had a talk in 
Software Freedom Day Hanoi 2007, organized by me 
http://www.fpt.com.vn/vn/tin_tuc/2007/09/20/403/)
So I want to ask if FPT can join hosting the event. We can dedicate good 
number of staff and many volunteers to help organize this event. I think 
FPT may be interested to be a sponsor as well, but I am not responsible 
for PR so I have to ask the PR department before being sure about it.
Looking forward to your reply,
Nam