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Dear all, Modified two points in the email: 1) To ask speakers to help to spread the word of the conference and help us to promote the conference 2) Clearly mention that "booking rooms not equal to paying for their hotel room fee" Please find below the finalized version to be sent to speakers today. Thanks! GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 - Talks AcceptedDear Speaker, We have the honour to inform you that your talk(s) had been accepted and arranged into GNOME.Asia Summit 2011. As next steps, we will schedule your talk(s) according to your preferred date(s) and the whole program schedule will be announced at gnome.asia in mid March. Please reply this email and send us your photo as well as your t-shirt size (from XS to XXXL). Your response before March 8th 16:00 (UTC) will be appreciated. We will also provide a hotel room reservation service to all our speakers with a bargain price (30% discount). The daily rate of one room will be around $75 / room [1], one room is equipped with two single beds and can accommodate 2 persons. If you need this service, please let us know by providing dates of hotel check-in and check-out. Besides, if you are willing to share a room with another speaker in order to save cost, please let us know if you have any preferred room-mate. Please also note that this service is only limited to booking, if you need any subsidy [2] to pay for traveling and accommodation, please follow the travel subsidy policy [3] to apply. You may go to FAQ page [4] for details of transportation recommendation from the airport to your hotel. Since you are our speaker, you do not have to register yourself at our web site in order to join the conference. You just need to go to our speaker reception on the day(s) of the conference to redeem a speaker badge. Please note that your talk(s) and participation will be recorded during the event. In order to promote Free Software culture, please allow us to release still pictures and recordings (audio and/or video) of your talk(s) and participation at this event. Recordings will be released under the "Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported" [3] or "Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported" license [4]. Besides, we will be opening registration of our conference to public soon, please stay tuned and help us to spread the word or invite your friends to join us! If you have any question please do not hesitate to let us know. Looking forward to seeing you at the GNOME.Asia Summit 2011! Thank you again for your support! Best regards, Pockey Lam GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 Committee |