The GNOME.Asia Committee is inviting proposals to host the GNOME.Asia
Summit during the 2nd quarter of 2015. The GNOME.Asia Summit is the
featured annual GNOME Conference in Asia. The event focuses primarily
on the GNOME desktop, and also covers applications and the development
platform tools. It brings together the GNOME community in Asia to
provide a forum for users, developers, foundation leaders, governments
and businesses to discuss both the present technology and future
developments.
GNOME.Asia Summit was held in Beijing, Ho-Chi-Minh City, Taipei,
Bangalore, Hong Kong Seoul and Beijing respectively over the last seven years.
The Summit’s preference is to find new locations each year as we
spread GNOME throughout Asia, and we are looking for local organizers
to rise to the challenge of organizing an excellent GNOME event. The
GNOME.Asia committee will assist in the process, but there is a
definitive need for individuals to be actively involved and committed
to the planning and execution of the event.
You can learn more about GNOME.Asia Summit at our website:
http://www.gnome.asia
For those of you who would be interested in hosting the next
GNOME.Asia Summit in 2015 you are hereby invited to submit a formal
proposal to the gnome-asia-committee-list<at>gnome<dot> org . The
deadline for the proposals is September 1, 2014. Please email your
proposal to gnome-asia-committee-list<at>gnome<dot> org in a open format such as PDF.
We might invite you to present your proposal in more details over our regular
IRC meetings, or send you additional questions and requests. Results
will be announced by the third week of September, 2014.
The conference will require availability of facilities for 3-5 days,
including a weekend, during the 2nd quarter of 2015 (between March and
June). Final event dates should avoid other key free software
conferences or other events that may have conflict and will be
confirmed together with other GNOME teams which might get involved.
Key points which proposals should consider, and which will be taken
into account when deciding among candidates, are:
* Local community support for hosting the conference.
* Venue details. Information about infrastructure and facilities to
hold the conference should be provided.
* Preliminary schedule with main program & different activities.
* Information about how internet connectivity will be managed.
* Lodging choices ranging from affordable housing to nicer hotels,
and information about distances between the venue and lodging options.
* The availability of restaurants or the organization of catering
on-site, cost of food/soft drinks/beer.
* The availability and cost of travel from major Asian and European cities.
* Local industries, universities and government support.
* Please provide a reasonably detailed budget (sponsorships, expenses, etc).
* Provide plans for local sponsorship's
Please refer to the official web site of GNOME.Asia [1]. Please also check the GNOME.Asia Summit
check list [2], howtos [3] and the winning proposal for 2012 [4] when putting together a proposal.
You are welcome to contact gnome-asia-committee-list gnome org if you have any questions.
Please help to spread the word and we are looking forward to hearing
from you soon!
GNOME.Asia Committee
[1] http://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeAsia
[2] http://2011.gnome.asia/about/gnomeasia/event-organization-checklist
[3] http://2011.gnome.asia/about/gnomeasia/summit-planning-howto
[4] http://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2012Summit/Bids?action="">
Yeah looks good to me to, just some minor comments.
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Emily Chen <emilychen522 gmail com> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> Here is is the draft of the call for bid GNOME.Asia 2015.
> Call for hosts for GNOME.Asia Summit 2015> The GNOME.Asia committee will assist in the process, but there is a
> definitive need for individuals to be actively involved and committedWould be maybe perfer "the planning and execution of the event".
> to the planning and delivery of the event.
Think "You can learn more about GNOME.Asia Summit at our website"
will do just fine.
I think its a good idea to be clear that the committee wants prosals
> For those of you who would be interested in hosting the next
> GNOME.Asia Summit in 2015 you are hereby invited to submit a formal
> proposal to the gnome-asia-committee-list<at>gnome<dot> org . The
> deadline for the proposals is September 1, 2014. Please email your
> proposal to gnome-asia-committee-list<at>gnome<dot> org.
to be in a open format such as PDF (so you don't get .doxc files for
example), there I suggest the following wording
"Please email your proposal to gnome-asia-committee-list<at>gnome<dot>org. in a open format such as PDF".
This is about local sponsors right? If so I would change the wording to
> * Provide plans for fundraising at a local level.
"Provide plans for local sponsorship's."
to
>Please also check the GNOME.Asia Summit check list [2], howtos [3] and a > winning proposal for the year 2012 [4] when putting together a proposal.
"Please also check the GNOME.Asia Summit check list [2], howtos [3]the winning proposal for 2012 [4] when putting together a proposal."
And finally
> Feelto
> free to contact gnome-asia-committee-list gnome org if you
> have any questions.
"You are welcome to contact gnome-asia-committee-list gnome org if you
have any questions."
If you agree on the changes I have suggested I can a revised copy of
the call for host.
--
-mvh Oliver Propst