Re: GNOME Speakers and goodies - MOSC2011

[Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org>]

Here is an update!

Sankar will send 300 OpenSUSE GNOME 3 DVDs to support MOSC2011. If 
anybody else have other GNOME goodies to give away to MOSC2011 
(Malaysia), please let us know!

Regarding speakers, we will most likely send a speaker from either India 
or China to save travel cost. Bharath / Akhil (and Emily) are following 
up with that now. Thanks!

Pockey

On 06/07/2011 10:02 PM, Pockey Lam wrote:
> On 06/07/2011 09:57 PM, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Le mardi 07 juin 2011, à 14:18 +0800, Pockey Lam a écrit :
> > > Hi Vincent, hi all,
> > >
> > > We are informed that there will be a conference in Malaysia named
> > > MOSC2011 (3-5 July, 2011), the organizer is asking us if we can send
> > > them some GNOME related goodies e.g. dvds, stickers, tshirts to
> > > distribute in their conference bags.They target to have 300
> > > participants. So the quantity will be 300 pcs each. For less and
> > > more value goodies, they will distribute them through questionnaires
> > > or lucky draw. Please let me know if you have any to give away.
> > Would it make sense to send GNOME 3 DVDs? I can see if Sankar can do
> > that from India, else we can try to send boxes from Europe.
>
> yeah! I asked them if they are interested in GNOME 3 DVDs, they do!
> Please, if Sankar has 300 DVDs, Mohd can give an address in a separate 
> email.
>
> > > Besides, they want us to provide speakers to talk about how to
> > > develop GNOME (app) for newbies (beginners) and a brief introduction
> > > of the GNOME community.  Other topics can be proposed by the
> > > community as well. I am asking Bharath (based in Bangalore, India)
> > > to see if he has time to go, otherwise, if you are interested or you
> > > have anybody in mind to recommend, please let us know. The organizer
> > > can provide 2 - 3 nights of hotel for accommodation. Thanks!
> > So we used to maintain a wiki page with potential speakers for events:
> > https://live.gnome.org/GnomeEvents/Speakers. It's outdated, though.
> >
> > Hopefully Bharath can go. Else, we might want to encourage other people
> > to speak at events -- I can think of Allan, Frédéric (although he can't
> > for this one), Fernando, etc.
> >
> > I can check if I could go, but I'm going to another event the week
> > after, so I'd prefer to do that only if nobody else can and if it's
> > really an important event for us. That's something up to the marketing
> > team and to the board, I guess (as it involved sponsoring travel).
> >
> > FWIW, I just looked and sending someone from Europe would cost
> > €1300-€1400, with a full-day trip (ie, 24 hours); which is quite some
> > money and time to invest. So I guess any final decision depends how
> > important our presence to this event is :-)
>
> I totally agreed! It makes more sense to have someone nearby to join! 
> I will have a irc meeting and Bharath should join, I will ask him later!
>
> Pockey
>
> > Vincent