Re: Fwd: GNOME Fest 2013 sponsor

["Karen Sandler" <karen gnome org>]

Hi Julita,

The GNOME board is actually meeting tomorrow and this will be on the
agenda. Sorry for the delay, the board only meets every other week. Thanks
for raising it (and also for your hard work)!

karen

On Mon, March 4, 2013 8:48 pm, yrazes wrote:
> Hello GNOME Foundation:
>
> I was wondering if you resolve something about the requirement in detail
> below.
> An affirmative or negative answer is OK, just please let us know.
>
> Thanks,
> Julita
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: yrazes <yrazes gmail com>
> Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:57 AM
> Subject: GNOME Fest sponsor
> To: Karen Sandler <karen gnome org>, foundation-list gnome org
>
>
> Hello GNOME Foundation,
>
> My name is Julita Inca and I am current member of the GNOME Foundation.
>
> I am planning to do a GNOME Fest very soon and I want you to ask if you
> can
> be our principal sponsor.
>
> We are planning to make t-shirts, banners, coffee break and lot of stuff
> related to GNOME.
>
>
> I did gathered a group of students from different universities in Lima,
> Perú.
>
> Let me tell you that did before twice last year, with different students
> and no success because some are now graduated and they decide to work or
> take other ways.
>
> But, in my third attempt, I got the attention of 5 students from UNI, PUCP
> and USIL. (this time include a girl who is very passionate and work so
> hard
> on this)
>
> We have been practicing Python, we reviewed code of many GNOME projects
> and
> some of Ruby and Arduino ONE - module leds since August 2012 until now.
> [01] [02]
>
> We also got some guidance from other students from Brazil and Macedonia
> that had previous experience with GNOME development and we did workshops
> online. [03]
>
> Finally, this weekend we celebrated a COWorking where we got a result, it
> is not so wow success but I think is the first great step as a group and
> good for science. [04]
>
>
> In the GNOME Fest, I want to present them and all our work we did. The 6
> participants of this group called NoVAPython are going to present to the
> rest of the students our job.
>
> I am planning to arrange a auditorium for at least 90 students, so I hope
> I
> can get your sponsorship with $250 in order to get a great event this
> year!
>
> Bests,
> Julita
>
> [01]
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/108649539406547027371/albums/5848748210685178417?authkey=CN3zva-Dy8qq0QE
> [02] http://lleksah.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/after-my-gnome-presentation/
> [03]
> http://lleksah.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/preparing-people-for-gnome-python-hackfest-peru-2013/
> [04] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzhYRQcK3Js&feature=youtu.be