Hi all,
Please find below the status report from the GNOME.Asia committee
as of today. If you have any question, please feel free to let us
know. Thanks!
New GNOME.Asia
website launched:
http://2011.gnome.asia
- The new website was
launched a few weeks before the hackfest / summit 2011
- With the help from Fred, we got Joomlart! (Vietnam) and Candis
(Hong Kong), two regional sponsors to provide the event template
and hosting service to us :)
- We believe
the new template helps us a lot to showcase our summit and make
GNOME.Asia more popular. It's very well integrated with
different social network channels, and we recorded a lot more
traffic. We will incorporate an analytic tool to track the
traffic asap
- Fred constantly updates and maintains the site with latest
news
- We need to keep the momentum and attract more contributors to
GNOME in Asia. As next step, we will develop a generic site for
GNOME.Asia to promote the community and actions all year round
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Summit
2011 summary:
- The theme of the summit 2011 is "The next generation free
desktop: GNOME 3.0"
- We were told by a lot of attendees that it was the best Free
and Open Source Software conference ever in India (a lot better
than KDE.in and FOSS.in that hosted not long before our event
:-)
- We had over 40 presentations and lightning talks and 30
speakers joined the event (over 90% GNOME related talks, which
is 20% higher than in 2007 in Beijing) - thanks to all our GNOME
hackers joined the hackfest and summit
- We had over 1,400 participants registered online before the
event and recorded a thousand attendees (80% students, 20%
delegates) in the conference (1st day: 700+ ppl, 2nd day: 300+
ppl)
- We had less participants as we expected on the 2nd day due to
the Cricket Match especially Indian team won the final
- In total we have 15 sponsors and partners, 30 volunteers and 6
exhibitors supported the whole event
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1 week activities overview:
GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 is the
biggest event ever in terms of variety, on top of the conference,
we also hosted :
- 5 days hackfest attended by 17 hackers
(Release, Marketing and GNOME.Asia teams), with successful
outcome ranging from team building (April Fools joke), a
successful and on time GNOME 3.0 release, GNOME.org
ready for launch and GNOME 3 website improvements, release
notes, advocacy, etc.
- 1 day installfest on a hundred machines all using the latest
and greatest of OpenSUSE
- 5 days GNOME 3.0 helpdesk where we helped
a hundred users to copy GNOME 3 images to their USB sticks or
directly supported installation on their laptops
- 2 days student training with 7 talks and 3
hand on sessions per day, reaching out to 260 students. We gave
away certificates to all the attendees
- 1 day business session with 4 talks given
by The GNOME Foundation, Oracle, EDF and Lanedo
- 2 days shooting of marketing video campaign “I am GNOME” - We
target to finish this marketing video by July 2011 (thanks to
Max and Allan)
- 1 face to face distribution collaboration session
between interested parties on site - Fred is working on the
report and will send out the report as next step
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Achievements:
-
GUG: We believe there will be a few GNOME User
Groups established in India including Bangalore, New Delhi,
Chennai, they are in the middle of developing their websites
and recruiting members (since some will need our help to
provide domain and hosting service, we directed them to
gnome-infrastructure mailing)
- GNOME Store:
Since we received some demand of purchasing GNOME
merchandises, we will follow up with the local GUG to
establish GNOME store(s) in India as well
- Popularity:
We believe the summit made GNOME a lot more popular in Asia
(even outside of Asia :), as we received a lot of request to
host the upcoming summit and we are very happy to hear that a
lot of our speakers would love to come back for next year
- Contribution:
We believe we gained some new GNOME contributors from Asia:
we saw some participants of Google Summer of Code and GNOME
Outreach Program are coming from the summit
- Publicity:
We gained some press coverage for both the event and GNOME 3.0
[1]
- Profitable:
We recorded ~$9k profit for the summit 2011 after spending
almost $14K in subsidizing 13 hackers of their plane tickets
and accommodation fee and almost $ 2K in event organization
[2] The
profit will go to the GNOME Foundation and we may need it next
year
[1] Press coverage
So far we have:
http://www.hindu.com/2011/04/04/stories/2011040451630700.htm
http://geekybodhi.net/habari/interview-with-vincent-untz-at-gnome-asia-summit-2011
Our report will be in Linux Format in July
* We are preparing press release and promote it to other press
e.g. Linux pilot and others
[2] Summit 2011
Profit and
Loss Summary
Revenue
$ 24,120 Sponsorship
$ 390 Donation
$ 44 Others (maybe more, we are waiting for our
volunteers to summarize the entrance fee)
$24,554 Total
Costing
$13,635 Travel subsidies (we subsidized 13 x return plane
tickets and accommodation fee of 13 hackers)
$1,880 Event organization and other fee
$ 15,518 Total expense
Profit
$ 9,039 (approximate)
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Things to improve for next years:
- We prepared a wiki
page for organizers to write down things to be kept / improved
for next
year：http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit/LoveHate We
believe there is always rooms for improvement :)
- We also prepared a
e-survey to send out to all participants, will gather feedback
from this survey and make a report to public as next step
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GNOME.Asia Summit 2012:
- We will continue to
have regular IRC meetings for GNOME.Asia committee (most
likely bi-weekly starting from May, then weekly starting from
October 2011)
- We plan to call for
host (for GNOME.Asia Summit 2012) before Aug and announce the
result in Sep or Oct 2011
- We already have some
request to host the summit 2012 from Hong Kong, Indonesia and
Malaysia, etc.
- The Summit 2012 will
most likely host in the 1st quarter of 2012 (in or before
March 2012)
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- Pockey
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