Re: [Fwd: Gnome Asia Summit]

[Frederic Muller <fred beijinglug org>]

Well we should probably answer whether we're ok for co-organization 
before asking for money, no? ;-)

Fred

Emily Chen wrote:
> That's a good news.
>
> Mario, we should send to FPT the sponsors' packages and other 
> documents asap.
>
> -Emily
>
> 2009/9/25 Frederic Muller <fred beijinglug org 
> <mailto: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 <mailto:namnd fpt com vn>>
>     To:     Frederic Muller <fred beijinglug org
>     <mailto: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
>
>
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