Re: GNOME.Asia 2011 - Call for Host

[Emily Chen <emilychen522 gmail com>]

Hi Pockey, 

Thanks for raise this proposal. If we want to host a GNOME.Asia Hackfest in March, we really need to plan it asap. 

Both August 31 or Sep 7 works for me, let's see how other members prefer. 

-Emily

2010/8/26 Pockey Lam <pockey beijinglug org>

Dear all,

As Brian suggested during the COSCUP / GNOME.Asia 2010, there will be
one option that we are hosting a HackFest (first GNOME one in Asia) in
March 2011 as the main theme of GNOME.Asia 2011. It will be a release
party for GNOME 3.0 so we can invite different companies to commit to
send their developers to the hackfest and hack on GNOME 3.0 all
together.

Besides, we should always host the GNOME.Asia event either on the 1st
quarter or 4th quarter of the year to avoid crashing with GUADEC and
DESKTOP SUMMIT.

We talked about hosting the hackfest in mainland China, however, the
Internet has a lot of constraints (e.g. all social networking sites are
blocked, slow connection), so we may instead consider to host it in Hong
Kong, Philippines and India or any other country / city that can provide
a free / cheap venue and accommodation for 5 days with good Internet and
infrastructure.

If we go for this option, should we consider to prepare our call for
host earlier maybe in (or before) October 2010, so we have enough time
to prepare the March event to call for sponsor / hackers?

For your information, I have talked to abharath from Novell India, he
is rather positive to find cheap venue / local sponsors and will help to
explore if they can host the hackfest in India.

While I will try to find contacts from any of the eight universities in
Hong Kong. (But hotels are rather expensive in Hong Kong, hope we can
get cheap / free dormitory;)

And I am sure our new committee member Allan will help to talk to
communities / universities in Philippines.

Let's start our discussion here or we can initiate a IRC meeting on the
Tuesday (August 31 or Sep 7)?  What do you prefer?

Thanks,
Pockey



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