Re: Location voting in progress: more information needed

[Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org>]

Hi Utian, Bharath and Akhil,

Please note that the deadline of rating is Monday December 13rd, please 
try to provide more details this week, thanks!

Pockey

On 12/08/2010 01:32 PM, Frederic Muller wrote:
> Dear Indonesian and Indian team,
>
> note: I'm writing an email which just represents my feelings and put 
> the comments in a mixed bag. They might not apply to both teams.
>
> In order to be able to vote we would really need more information on:
> - Venue: photos of accommodation rooms when included
> - Venue: hackfest site photos
> - Venue: conference site photos covering conf rooms and free spaces 
> where we could have booth
> - Ability to acquire sponsors: who have you met so far and what's your 
> feelings on raising 60K USD from local companies. be specific to which 
> companies you think will vouch for GNOME (and honest of course ;-) )
> - Infrastruture: I guess bandwidth/speed data for Internet is 
> important, availability of wifi, public transportation, distance from 
> airport, distance from and ease of access to 'downtown' matter too.
> - Visa: I think someone needs to do some research. My impressions are 
> that both HK and Bali give visa on arrival to almost anybody (maybe 
> not Chinese?) and for India I am under the impression the process is 
> rather cumbersome (requiring to deposit some cash in a specific bank - 
> at least in China and even for foreigners). Can you elaborate on those 
> issues, confirm or correct my 'claims'?
>
> Thanks a lot for the hard work.
>
> Fred
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