Re: GNOME.Asia Summit 2011

[Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org>]

Excellent! We need more contributors and supporters to make the event 
happen. Besides, we can all work together to help GNOME grow in Hong 
Kong! Will definitely love to meet Jeromy as well.

Thanks,
Pockey

On 11/17/2010 12:55 AM, Haggen So wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> There is one more person I missed - Volunteer of DotAsia and President
> of Wikimedia Hong Kong, Jeromy-Yu Chan. I had a phone conversation
> with him on the phone and he would like to contribute as well.
>
> Regards,
>
> Haggen
>
> On 16 November 2010 20:16, Pockey Lam<pockeylam gnome org>  wrote:
> > Thanks Haggen for your introduction!
> >
> > Dear Edmon and everybody,
> >
> > It's very nice to meet the dotAsia team and of course Charles as well! As
> > Haggen said I have been a committee member of GNOME.Asia advocating GNOME in
> > Asia since its establishment in late 2007.
> >
> > To give you a short introduction of GNOME (http://www.gnome.org) and
> > GNOME.Asia (http://gnome.asia), the GNOME Free Software Project includes The
> > GNOME Desktop Environment and the GNOME Development Platform. The GNOME
> > project intents to provide high quality FREE (as freedom) desktop to
> > everybody and an extensive framework for developers to build applications
> > that integrate into the rest of the desktop.
> >
> > The GNOME.Asia committee aims to promote the GNOME project in different
> > Asian countries so that more people can benefit from the project. We have
> > been organizing annual events in Beijing, Ho-Chi-Minh City and Taipei. We
> > also encouraged and fostered the establishment of local GNOME communities as
> > well.
> >
> > We are currently working on the GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 preparation (together
> > with our first GNOME Hackfest in Asia) most likely in April / May 2011. The
> > main objective of this event is to work on, celebrate and promote the GNOME
> > 3.0 launch. We also want to leverage on this big GNOME event to build
> > awareness of the GNOME project in Asia.
> >
> > The GNOME Foundation will make sure that top GNOME developers and
> > contributors / volunteers (marketing, release and documentation team) from
> > all over the world will join this event.  We are contemplating Hong Kong and
> > Jakarta, Bangalore as hosting cities. The exact date and venue will be
> > confirmed 1st week of December.
> >
> > I can foresee a lot of synergy between our organizations, we should
> > definitely meet and talk about our potential collaboration in the near
> > future. Please let me know what date and time will be convenient for you on
> > the week of 22 November.
> >
> > Looking forward to hearing from you!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Pockey
> >
> >
> > On 11/16/2010 05:07 PM, Haggen So wrote:
> > > Hi Pockey,
> > >
> > > Here is the DotAsia Team plus Charles, a supporter of F/OSS&    Free
> > > Culture.
> > >
> > > Hi Edmon, Ching, Ping and Charles,
> > >
> > > Here is Pockey from GNOME.Asia.
> > >
> > > Please work out a time for the meeting.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Haggen
> > >
> > > 2010/11/16 Edmon Chung<edmon registry asia>:
> > > > I will be traveling between Dec 1-17.
> > > > Otherwise should generally be flexible.
> > > > Edmon