Summary of Talks and travel assistance for GNOME.Asia 2010

[Emily Chen <emilychen522 gmail com>]

Hi all, 

1. Talks
So far, we have got 80 talks, 20 of them are GNOME topics. 

See below detail data:

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?目分?建? / Categories suggestion for the talk

C: HTML 5 and the Web Technologies	18 (20.0%)
C: FLOSS & Hardware	8 (8.88888888888889%)
C: FLOSS Business, legally	7 (7.77777777777778%)
C: Free-Culture Communities	9 (10.0%)
C: User Experience in FLOSS	8 (8.88888888888889%)
C: Open Source & Digital Art	11 (12.2222222222222%)
C: Art of Coding	10 (11.1111111111111%)
G: The latest GNOME 3.0	3 (3.33333333333333%)
G: GNOME library and application development	5 (5.55555555555556%)
G: Desktop deployments and customization	4 (4.44444444444444%)
G: Localization & Internationalization	4 (4.44444444444444%)
G: GNOME Communities	1 (1.11111111111111%)
G: GNOME Accessibility	2 (2.22222222222222%)
G: Testing	4 (4.44444444444444%)
G: Education & School Software	4 (4.44444444444444%)
Other topics	21 (23.3333333333333%)
Lightning talks ( 5 min )	9 (10.0%)

I will work with COSCUP team to review all the talks and send out confirmation to speakers next week. 

2. Travel assistance

The travel committee mail list received only below request :
 
Utian Ayuba  $400
Ding Zhou $400
Allan Caeg $400
Dave Lin $400
Tobias Mueller  $1400 ($800 as our restriction)
Behnam Esfahbod (He haven't send out the estimated travel costs, waiting for the visa) 

So far, there are $2800 request for the travel assistance. Just half our travel budget.

I would like to suggest to do following things: 
1. Postponed the deadline to two weeks later (Many potencial speakers are working on visa or waiting for the confirmation of talk,they haven't submit their travel subsidy form untill get confirmed. ) 

2. Thinking about providing lodging for speakers. I will contact COSCUP team to see how much cost of the lodging for three nights. 

3. After two weeks, if we still have more than $1000 haven't used, we can think about invite one speaker, for example, someone who can talk about Mobile, since mobile is the key theme for this conference. Pockey suggest Dave neary, how do everyone think about ? 

I am going to go ahead with step 1 and 2, let's discuss 3 in the list ? 

BTW, RMS said $400 is not enough to cover his flight, I haven't see his travel application so far. 

-Emily