Awesome report. Thanks, Pockey!
On Apr 12, 2011 3:29 PM, "Pockey Lam" <
pockeylam gnome org> wrote:
> 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
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> *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
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> *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 <
http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/GNOME.Asia2011>
> 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
> <
http://www.gnome.org/> ready for launch and GNOME 3 website
> <
http://www.gnome3.org/> 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
> <
http://2011.gnome.asia/component/content/article/34-latest-news/149-gnome-3-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
> <
http://2011.gnome.asia/conference/activities/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
> <
http://2011.gnome.asia/conference/activities/business-session>
> with 4 talks given by The GNOME Foundation, Oracle, EDF and Lanedo
> * 2 days shooting of marketing video campaign "I am GNOME"
> <
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit/MarketingVideo> - We
> target to finish this marketing video by July 2011 (thanks to Max
> and Allan)
> * 1 face to facedistribution collaboration session
> <
http://2011.gnome.asia/conference/activities/collaboration-session>
> between interested parties on site - Fred is working on the report
> and will send out the report as next step
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> *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)*
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> *
> 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
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> *
> 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)
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> - Pockey
