Re: Proposal for GNOME.Asia Summit 2014 in Beijing

[Haggen So <haggenso gmail com>]

Any response from the Beijing team? Do the team need more time?

On 4 September 2013 07:47, Max <sakanamax gmail com> wrote:
> Dear ALL
>
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> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Karen Sandler <karen gnome org> wrote:
> > On Tue, September 3, 2013 7:28 pm, Max wrote:
> > > 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).
> >
> > Even if there is no sponsorship, we can organize this anyway and have
> > people pay their own way. We've done that before at GUADEC. This was the
> > first year that we got a sponsor for it.
> >
> > > *  Add more information if we could co-work with openSUSE.  Like....
> >
> > To be honest, I was very confused by the proposal. Were the original dates
> > chosen to work with opensuse scheduling? I'd also like to hear more about
> > how the two conferences could work together.
> >
> > >   **  Add one more track (total 3 tracks in conference).
> >
> > Perhaps we could see what kind of speaker proposals we get? I'd hate for
> > us to lower our speaker standards to fill a track. For GUADEC we reduced
> > the tracks to 2 and I think that was really helpful. Or do you mean that
> > GNOME.Asia could be the third track?
>
>
>
> I will fix this "It is better we could have total 2 tracks with openSUSE"
> -- It would be good and I very agree with Karen.
> I mean GNOME and openSUSE have both 1.5 tracks if the session slots is not
> enough.  ^__^
>
>
>
> > >   **  Maybe we could have same opening session / keynotes.
> >
> > This is a really good idea, especially if we can work with the opensuse
> > people to help select the keyoter.
> >
> > >   **  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)
> >
> > Right - that could be a huge advantage of working with opensuse. It could
> > really save us money.
> >
> > > *  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....
> >
> > +1
> >
> > > )
> > > *  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.
> >
> > your English is great! (And thanks to everyone for speaking English when
> > it's not your first language!) I'm open to working with others and think
> > we should explore it so long as we make sure that our goals for the GNOME
> > community are achievable. We don't want our event to be overshadowed by
> > another, but I do think there could be real advantages to working
> > together.
> >
> > > We are still learning, so we could try to do more a little every year.
> > > ^__^
> > > Please feel free to give us suggestion.
> >
> > thanks for your hard work!
> > karen
> >
> > > Max
>
> Thanks karen give us suggestion, and when we get more information and
> suggestion, we could do more and make right decison.
>
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> Max
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