Re: [Fwd: Gnome Asia Summit]

[Frederic Muller <fred beijinglug org>]

Morning!

So I take it everyone is enthusiastic about this, so I'll reply and cc 
you guys in vietnam (my blug email address seems to fail when I email 
him) so you can follow up.

Thanks.

Fred

Kevin Miller, Jr. wrote:
> 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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