Re: [Fwd: Gnome Asia Summit]

[Mario Behling <mb mariobehling de>]

Hello,

I agree, it is great to involve them. I am not sure, what co-organizer
means here though. Defining companies as partners or sponsors is a
good idea. We contact them and see.

Today, I met up with Anthony, Hong Phuc and the CEO of GHP Far East,
which is a very successful company endorsing FOSS. We went through the
tasks to prepare for the summit. On Monday we will have a meeting with
QTSC to go through details about the venue organization.

We also worked on the website during the last days. Some minor issues
need to be resolved - deletion of transportation cat, translation set
up, reordering of news posts, uploads of images. Will and Joey are
looking into it already.

I think we can switch the site online then and put the old site under
2008.gnome.asia.

- Mario



On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Emily Chen <emilychen522 gmail com> wrote:
> Last year, our co-organizor are Sun, BLUG and COPU.
>
> If it is the same defination as last year, there is no problem.
>
> May be we should ask what's their defination of co-organizor first ?
>
> -Emily
>
> 2009/9/25 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
>>>