Re: Proposal for GNOME.Asia Summit 2014 in Beijing

[Max <sakanamax gmail com>]

Thanks  for Bin and BJGUG to submit a proposal to 2014, and Sammy give suggestions.

My suggestion is:

*  Try to have a welcome party(If our sponsorship is enough) instead hackfest before the conference days( 2 days conference at Sat and Sun). 

*  Try to have a women's dinner during the summit. (If our sponsorship is enough).

*  Add more information if we could co-work with openSUSE.  Like....

  **  Add one more track (total 3 tracks in conference).

  **  Maybe we could have same opening session / keynotes.

  **  Have a budget evaluate ( max budget and min budget) if we co-work with openSUSE. (we could just make simple, if we have the same session slots and go dutch with expense) 

*  Maybe we could consider let attendee choose they want to buy or not to buy GNOME.Asia 2014 T-shirts when they register and try to pay online.(Reference GUADEC 2013)(optimize our budget and we could do more.... )

*  Maybe we could consider design different tickets when they register and try to pay online.(Base on free tickets, but if they come from company or they want to donate)(Reference GUADEC 2013)(optimize our budget and we could do more.... )

I think it's good to open mind to co-work with different FOSS community. Maybe this year we co-work with openSUSE, next year co-work with others(Like ubuntu or KDE or Fedora).

We must share the resource and work (fight?) together.  Make FOSS and newcomers getting more and more. 

We are the same to contribute with FOSS, so in my personal, don't add any tag ( GNOME / KDE / Ubuntu / openSUSE / fedora / .....) on our head.  We must co-work and moving something forward.

Sorry for my poor English and It's real early to write this letter in my time zone.

We are still learning, so we could try to do more a little every year.  ^__^

Please feel free to give us suggestion.

Max

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Sammy Fung <sammy opensource hk> wrote:

Thanks for Bin and BJGUG to submit a proposal to apply the hosting GNOME Asia Summit 2014.

My opinions is the following.

I think probably it looks good if BJGUG intends to host a independent GNOME Asia Summit event as hosts of past 2 years (Seoul and Hong Kong).

But as the Asia committee know, BJGUG intends to host a joint event with OpenSUSE Asia, but the proposal didn't provide details, only 1 line telling Asia committee that it is a joint event. So I suggests BJGUG to provide more details of this cooperation.

Starting from part 4.

- Tentative date should mention dates of OpenSUSE Asia for reference.

- I suggest Hackfest should be hosted before the main conference, eg. Friday.

On part 6.

- Brief Schedule of OpenSUSE Asia should be included, and how many and how will the room arranged for both events, and booths, BoFs, Hackfests, sports and party.........

- How should participants register ? They should register one for both events, or seperated ?

On part 8 to 9.

- How will budget arrange if we cooperate with OpenSUSE Asia ? How many (or which part of) expenses should each party pay ?

- And how are our sponsorship package(s) ? How should sponsorship amount spend into this joint event ? Will you consider give discount if a potential sponsor would like to sponsor both events ?

And I think some parts on the proposal are similiar to above.

I know how to re-write the proposal. ;) But above are my tips/hints, and I couldn't say more how should it be rewritten, as I am a member in Asia committee. It should be done by local team, and local team should tell us the difference and pros/cons of each plan. :)

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Bin Li <libin charles gmail com> wrote:

Dear all,

 I represent Beijing GNOME User Group(BJGUG) to apply the hosting GNOME.Asia Summit 2014 in Beijing. And I've uploaded the Proposal in the wiki, feel free to contact to me if any issue. :)

 https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2014Summit/Bids

 Thanks for your time and consideration!

Sincerely Yours,

Bin Li (李彬)

http://zh.opensuse.org
http://www.bjgug.org/

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Open Source Hong Kong
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