Re: [Fwd: Gnome Asia Summit]

["Kevin Miller, Jr." <kevin miller saigonlinux com>]

I know Nam.  I spoke to him about the Gnome Asia Summit during SFD last 
Saturday.  He is a pretty good guy.  I met some really great FOSS 
advocates at SFD such as Nam.

Kevin

Frederic Muller wrote:
> 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
>
>
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