Re: [Fwd: The dates of Gnome.Asia Summit 2010]

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Pockey:

> No, they haven't fill out a proposal yet.
>
> Actually the attached email means, they (COSCUP) want to prepare /
> submit a proposal only if we can accept the date, August 14, 15. that I
> believe it maybe a bit too much in a rush for GNOME.Asia Summit. What do
> u think?

It is now February, which seems to provide enough time to plan for
an event in August, if planning starts early enough.  I would think
that for their proposal to be taken seriously, they should have
a strong enough team of volunteers to make it happen.  Do they?

The GNOME.Asia Summit in Vietnam was organized in a surprisingly short
period of time.

Brian


> On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 10:13 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote:
> > Did this group fill out a proposal? What are they proposing?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Stormy
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Pockey Lam<pockey beijinglug org>
> > wrote:
> >          Dear all,
> >
> >          Please find below the feedback from the organizing member of
> >          COSCUP for
> >          your information and let's discuss if the date of the event
> >          (August 14
> >          and 15) is acceptable or not for GNOME.Asia Summit 2010 as we
> >          may have
> >          concern about the tight deadline of getting sponsors.
> >
> >          For your information, if we do think the date is a bit tight,
> >          there will
> >          be another Taiwanese FOSS event named ICOS
> >          (http://icos.org.tw/ )
> >          that Emily mentioned earlier. ICOS was hosted on Sep 25th to
> >          27th last year.
> >
> >          Cheers,
> >          Pockey
> >
> >
> >          -------- Forwarded Message --------
> >          From: pingooo<ping nsr yeh gmail com>
> >          To: Pockey Lam<pockey beijinglug org>
> >          Subject: The dates of Gnome.Asia Summit 2010
> >          Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:03:16 +0800
> >
> >          Hi Pockey,
> >
> >
> >          Happy Chinese New Year!
> >
> >
> >          The acting leader of the COSCUP team, Rex Tsai, has evaluated
> >          the recap
> >          that you and I wrote. We're going to have a team-wide
> >          discussion soon.
> >          However, we found a potential showstopper.
> >
> >
> >          We're going to have COSCUP on 2010/8/14 - 2010/8/15. The date
> >          is fixed
> >          for many reasons. Is the date acceptable for Gnome.Asia Summit
> >          2010? If
> >          not, I'm sorry that we will not be able to file a proposal on
> >          other
> >          dates.
> >
> >
> >          I know you are concerned about the lead time for getting
> >          sponsors. I
> >          don't know much about international sponsors. From local
> >          companies and
> >          global companies with branches in Taiwan, we were able to
> >          secure 19
> >          sponsors with 3.5 months of lead time for COSCUP 2009. I
> >          estimate that
> >          we will have about 4.5 months of lead time this year.
> >
> >
> >          Best wishes,
> >          pingooo
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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