Re: Note about upcoming conferences

[Oliver Propst <oliver propst gmail com>]

Hi meg,
nice to hear from you and thanks for your kind words.

> > Is it possible for you to make a wiki with this information? That way
> > those of us who are less involved in your team can add conferences we are
> > attending, volunteer to submit talks, etc. If you could also list how
> > someone should contact your team to co-ordinate things that would be great
> > (e.g. how do I apply for funding for GNOME marketing materials, is there
> > travel funding available if I want to give a talk, etc).
You can mail the travel committee and ask for sponsorship, but as you
may be awre of the foundation right now have very tight with resources
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> It just occurred to me that this is kind of a vague request since there are
> already a lot of pages which contain this type of info on the wiki.
+1

> I guess
> what I meant is: is it possible for you to (1) make a page with potential
> events which your team is interested in having people attend, in case
> someone is already going to be there and can easily help out;
I think this is the page [1] you are looking for.

We tend to create a wiki page about a specific event once we know that
someone will attend/speak, like this one [2].

> and (2) is it
> possible for your team to provide a general outline of a process non-team
> members can follow to contact your team and easily co-ordinate a GNOME
> presence?
Well I consider everyone who is willing to speak about GNOME a team
member. Write to this list a good start, we are also quite active on
irc (#engagement).

> I've had some slight difficulty coordinating things in the past
> because I have to send emails to so many places, wait for responses, ask >who
> to contact next, etc :)
Hm, the event wiki page are featured on main gnome wiki page [3].

1 https://wiki.gnome.org/Events
2 https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/DebConf14
3 https://wiki.gnome.org/
-- 
-mvh Oliver Propst