Re: GNOME Speakers @ FISL2007

["Lucas Rocha" <lucasr gnome org>]

Hi,

Ok, I've got space for one talk in FISL agenda. I've invited Vincent
Untz and he confirmed he's available to go. So, here's the "official"
request:

I'd like to request the Foundation to cover the costs of flight and
host for Vincent Untz to go to FISL2007, which will be taking place at
Porto Alegre/RS (Brazil) on April 12-14, to give a talk about GNOME.
If Vincent doesn't mind, I can look for someone to host him instead of
using a hotel. Some rough estimation for the flight tickets from Paris
to Porto Alegre:

Leaving on April 11 and returning on April 15
- From www.ebookers.fr: 1694 €
- From www.airfrance.fr:  1816 €

I guess Vincent can find better places to get better prices in France.

Please, reply ASAP because I need to confirm this (or not) to the organizers.

Cheers!

--lucasr


2007/3/2, Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org>:
> Hei all!
>
> The 8th edition of Fórum Internacional Software Livre (aka FISL) [1]
> is going to happen in Porto Alegre (Brazil), April 12-14. This is one
> of the largest and most important FLOSS conferences in Latin America.
> The average number of attendees is 5000 (!). The agenda comprises
> political, social topics and technical topics.
>
> As usual, I'm organizing some GNOME activities there. There will be a
> GNOME community event which will be more like a brazilian community
> BoF to discuss topics like pt_BR localization, GNOME marketing
> activities in Brazil, how to get more brazilian contributors to GNOME,
> etc. We've been having success on increasing the brazilian presence in
> GNOME in the last year and I think those big conferences (i.e. FISL,
> Latinoware) had a lot of influence in this regard.
>
> I think we should have a strong presence in FISL. Therefore, I'd like
> to know if the Foundation could help to bring one or two GNOME
> speakers to Porto Alegre. I've contacted the FISL organization team
> and they would be glad to have more international/rocking speakers in
> their conference agenda.
>
> I'm still deciding and confirming who I will invite. For now, I'd like
> to know if there's interest from the Foundation to fund this. Also,
> I'll have to confirm with the organization if they accept the speaker
> suggestions.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --lucasr
>
> [1] http://fisl.softwarelivre.org