Re: GNOME Speakers & Freebies

[Mohd Fazli Azran <mfazliazran gmail com>]

Hi Pockey,

I think we can start for the beginner level so our participant easy to understand the process. FYI the organizer will sponsor the speakers hotel for 3 day 2 night. What we want is the speaker just need to cover their flight. Transportation from the airport will be pick up by USM staff. Any query don't hesitate to ask. Thanks

This is some of our community opinion and _expression_ respond to GNOME query about word FREE i want to share to GNOME committee.

Dear GNOME committee

Please forgive our ignorance.

Free in my country meaning different to non techie people in my
country. Each time the words Free is used, its mean free of charge,
given its freely without any price, can be taken lightly and low grade
software.

Its take us years to make our own people understand the meaning of
free, free for freedom. But its no used. Its already in our culture
free in negative perspective.

So we start the safer way of doing its. Silence it temporary and lets
our speakers do the explanation and make our public like it and love
it.. and we the Malaysian Open Source community will keep on doing
this until the people, free is for for freedom. Freedom that's our
country needs.

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org> wrote:

Dear Mohd,

Thanks for all the info!

Hi Pockey,

 

Who will attend (as participants)?

Government staff, Lecturer/student and open source community 

 

 

Any preference of GNOME topics so we can get you the right GNOME speakers?

If GNOME can provide speaker that talk about how to develop GNOME it self. Our target is for give information to our participant on how to explore GNOME project and what suppose we must know and how it works. We want our participant to join GNOME project and can be part of GNOME developer.

In this case, it may make sense to know what's the technical level of the participants, is it an introduction of how to develop GNOME for beginners, or more advanced level? please advise.

Once it's clarified, I will forward your invitation to relevant mailing lists.

Thanks,
Pockey