Re: Promoting events in South America

["Lucas Rocha" <lucasr gnome org>]

Oi,

Esqueci de dizer que a discussão sobre esse assunto vai acontecer na
lista geral de grupos de usuários do GNOME:

  http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gugmasters-list

--lucasr


2007/11/8, Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org>:
> Oi todos,
>
> Pra quem não lê na lista de Marketing do GNOME, o Diego, do Perú, fez
> uma proposta interessante de tentar sincronizar da melhor forma
> possível os eventos do GNOME nos países da América do Sul para
> possibilitar a vinda de palestrantes estrangeiros para os eventos, com
> um custo mais baixo.
>
> Izabel, quais são os planos para o V Fórum GNOME no ano que vem? Seria
> bom entrar nessa "roda" para poderem trazer gente legal pro Brasil.
>
> O que vocês acham?
>
> --lucasr
>
> ps: O exemplo com meu nome é apenas um exemplo. Não quer dizer
> necessariamente que eles estão pensando em me convidar.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Diego Escalante Urrelo <diegoe gnome org>
> Date: 06/11/2007 09:55
> Subject: Promoting events in South America
> To: marketing-list <marketing-list gnome org>
>
>
> Hey everyone,
>
> I wanted to have an opinion on an idea I've been playing for a while.
> I'd like to run some -not so big- conference around here in Perú.
> Obviously one of the goals of doing so is promoting GNOME events
> outside the north hemisphere of our lovely planet.
>
> One of the obvious problems with the will of taking people from Europe
> to SouthAmerica is that ticket cost is high. Discussing the idea with
> various people, an idea popped: sync conferences of this side of the
> world so people travelling from europe can assist easily to other
> conferences in other countries, this would be simple masses economy
> (if that's the translation).
> Example:
> - GNOME Chile decides to have a conference March 15-17, they want to
> bring Lucas for a talk about Maemo
> - GNOME Brasil wants to have Lucas on March 20
> - GNOME Perú would like to have a conference on March 22-24, and would
> like Lucas as a speaker for March 23.
>
> The idea is simple, just agree on some schedule so we have the chance
> of sharing the availability of speakers or attendants.
> This of course raises problems like outside-of-office time for these
> guys and other things like lots of travelling, but SouthAmerica is not
> huge, it's easy to go from one place to another.
>
> Benefit for the local people is having some cool speakers for a lot
> less money than normal (or maybe even for almost no money?), benefit
> for speakers is that they get to travel around SouthAmerica.
>
> I would like to hear your opinions on this idea, or any opinion about
> the whole issue of bringing more people to our part of the world!.
>
>
> greetings!
>
>
> Diego
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