Confirm your availability to COSCUP/GNOME.Asia 2010

[Emily Chen <emilychen522 gmail com>]

Hi Richard,

The GNOME foundation travel committee is able to 
sponsor you in the amount of $400 as per our travel policy. You will 
need to fill the form and send back to travel-committee gnome org
 before July 9th, 2010 14:00 UTC.

Due to budget limitations, we are not able to afford lodging for all
 speakers. We hope you understand and regret we cannot afford this for 
all of our guests.

The COSCUP/GNOME.Asia team is planning to 
schedule your talk for Aug 15th, 2010 in the 13:00 - 14:00 time slot. 
You talk will be designated as one of the keynote speeches.

Please confirm your availability to the COSCUP / GNOME.Asia 2010 
conference. Your response before July 3th will be much appreciated as we
 are making final preparations for the speaking schedule and plan to 
announce the conference schedule in public on July 4th, 2010.

Sincerely,
GNOME.Asia Committee

2010/7/1 Richard Stallman <rms gnu org>

   I will work with coscup team to arrange your talk on Aug 15 afternoon. The
   slot is 1 hour, (45 min speech + 15 Q&A).

My usual speech is lasts two hours.  Cutting it in half is possible,
but lots of important points would be left out.  It seems like an
unfortunate thing to do.

   I am not located in Taiwan. I also need to figure out the hotel by myself.
   Having talked about this issue with the local coscup organizer team, they
   only provide lodging for volunteers and staff,   no lodging for speaker,

That is a problem.  It probably means I can't go.
I can't afford to spend hundreds of dollars on this.

Yesterday I asked Jeanne to ask my previous contacts in Taiwan if any
of them wants me to give a speech.  If one of them wants a speech,
maybe he can provide lodging for me.  That would make my trip
possible, and I could also do the speech for you.

Whether the 14th or 15th would be better, I do not know yet.
It depends on the flight schedule info, which is waiting
for me to get some info from the people an event in Beijing
(which is why I will be there).