Re: Reminder for GNOME.Asia 2012 IRC Meeting - 2012-4-17

[Will LaShell <will lashell net>]

On Apr 18, 2012, at 12:37 AM, Haggen So wrote:

> On 18 April 2012 10:58, Will LaShell <will lashell net> wrote:
>> Due to timing I am basically never able to be at the meeting in irc.
>> 
>> On Apr 17, 2012, at 5:14 AM, Akhil Laddha wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 15:27 +0800, Sammy Fung wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> I am not available to join irc meeting tonight.
>>>> 
>>>> Hereby is my report.
>>>>      * I, Will and Max discussed on gtalk and closed all tickets
>>>>        listed on todo document. Thanks Will and Max.
>>>> 
>>>> I suggest we should discuss on this irc meeting.
>>>> 
>>>>      * Schedule:
>>>>              * Pls refer to schedule shown on website, ie.
>>>>                http://2012.gnome.asia/schedule/
>>>>              * Should we have BoF insteads of networking dinner ? If
>>>>                BoF, please propose how should we run BoF this year.
>>>>                (if posssible)
>>> 
>>> During recent GUADEC and Desktop summit BoFs / workshops were done on
>>> separate days than conference days but during GNOME.Asia 2010, BoFs were
>>> scheduled during evening when conference talks were over like from 6 pm
>>> to 8 pm afair.
>>> 
>>> For reference :
>>> GUADEC 2010 BoF schedule http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/2010/BOFs
>>> Desktop Summit 2011
>>> https://www.desktopsummit.org/program/workshops-bofs
>>> http://wiki.desktopsummit.org/Workshops_%26_BoFs/Schedule
>> 
>> I really like the idea of the BOF sessions put at the end of the day  during the conference. This gives us more content to present to sponsors .
>> +!
> 
> We have 2 nights, so we can have BOF for one and professional
> networking for the other. The professional networking is the result of
> syncing with GUADEC sponsorship and is already included in both
> sponsorship brochure. We need to have it.
> 

Clarification,  I meant to imply that with a 2 day conference,  one day would have the BOF sessions.  Nonetheless  +1 all around

>> 
>>> 
>>>>              * Should we have keynote at the beginning of afternoon
>>>>                sessions ? (if agree, we move some keynotes to
>>>>                afterrnoon, is it ok ?)
>>> 
>>> Usually keynotes are scheduled in early morning (between 9 -11 am) and
>>> late evening (4 -5 pm) time slots so that keynotes can be attended by
>>> maximum people.
>>> 
>> 
>> This is definitely consistent with the previous Summits.
>> 
>>>>      * Sponsors:
>>>>              * HK teams are contacting local potential sponsors,
>>>>                media partners, supporting organisations.
>>>>      * Call For Papers:
>>>>              * Should we extend the deadline by 1 week ?
>>> 
>>> +1
>>> 
>> 
>> We are getting some nice responses but I think if we let it run another week we will get more entries.
>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Akhil
>>> 
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