Re: [GNOME-India] GNU/Linux Asia 2004 - Plans and thereon

[Ravi Pratap M <ravi ximian com>]

Hey Prady,

On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 10:40, Pradyumna Sampath wrote:
> > [2] Ximian/Novell - who takes up the baton ?
> 
> These guys have been really silent.
	
	Lemme talk to Miguel/Nat - don't worry, I will take care of this.



> > [3] suggest goodies, demonstrations etc
> 
> Goodies ?? To give away ? Can we afford that at this point of time ? 

	We give away what companies want us to give away :-)
	

> Dashboard would be a good app to demo to people.A killer application
> like none other.But it needs a network.

	Is it reasonably stable ? From what I last saw, Dashboard was a pain to
build and get working but if you think you can handle it, that would be
nice :-)


> Some on the spot demos of RAD on GNOME using Glade and Anjuta, I think
> this would be a great hit among the developer crowd.
	
	Agreed.


> But cant someone negotiate with LinuxAsia 2004 and negotiate a reduction
> of stall costs ? Eg : At Linux Bangalore/2003 we had given out stalls
> for OpenSource projects free at the prime area of the expo.Can we
> negotiate something with them ? 

	If we have corporate backing, this won't be necessary. Given the access
to GNOME companies that we have, I would recommend we leave this as a
last option. 



	Ravi.