Re: [GNOME-my]Re: [Fwd: Conferences in the coming year]

[Hasbullah Bin Pit <sebol my-penguin org>]

Imran William Smith wrote:
> Hasbullah Bin Pit wrote:
>
> > I would like to ask wether MIMOS or UPSI has plan to do
> > any opensource/FLOSS/FS conference in 2004.
>
> Actually we (MIMOS) have not decided this yet.  

I would like to suggest MIMOS to decide the date as earlier as can
prefered in august.

If MIMOS of other organiser decide the date earlier, I promise I'll 
invite GNOME hacker to Malaysia. but if it late, i cant do anything.


from planet GNOME
http://planet.gnome.org/


" Hrm. So I think I could fairly reasonably justify going to a whole 
stack of conferences in the coming months, but they're all at the end of 
each successive month. Harsh. Plus, USENIX is not on the list because it 
conflicts with GUADEC. That's a real bummer, because Keith was trying to 
get me drunk at the linux.conf.au dinner so I'd agree to do a talk 
there. Here's the list, up to the end of August. I imagine that a GNOME 
Summit (in the USA) would be in Septemberish, too. Fear.

    * Debconf 4 in Porto Alegre, Brazil: May 26th to June 2nd
    * GVADEC 2004 in Kristiansand, Norway: June 28th to June 30th
    * OSCON 2004 in Portland, USA: July 26th to July 30th
    * FOSSCON in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Most likely the end of August
"

Jdub is already plan for FOSSCON even though the organiser didnt say 
anything about the date yet.

> Organising a conference
> takes a very large amount of time and effort (something like 3 months
> x several people, up to 6 months for 1-2 people).  That cuts
> heavily into other projects.

If the management decide to make fosscon this year theme
as "Opensource in Desktop" organiser can get help GNOME-[my/ms]


> Having said that, we recognise that Malaysia will benefit from
> regular open source / free software conferences.
>
> The trouble with a joint conference is that it's very difficult
> to make quick decisions.  Every decision has to be okayed / discussed
> with the other party - so more time is spent in meetings, and
> less time is available to contact speakers etc.

Just assume It's MIMOS only  conference, MIMOS set the date  and
others like UPSI or local opensrc company can be "co-organiser"



> Imran



--
Hasbullah Bin Pit

PSS Merlimau

Tel : 06-2631984
Faks : 06-2633976