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

[Imran William Smith <iwsmith mimos my>]

I'm not sure who made the estimate that FOSSCON 2004 would
be 'most likely at the end of August'.  Certainly I haven't
heard anybody in MIMOS say that.

At the moment I still can't confirm or deny a FOSSCON for
this year.  We need many things in place before we
could start work on another FOSSCON ( a full time manager
dedicated to FOSSCON, for one) , and those things are not in place
at the moment.

Certainly, if there is a FOSSCON 2004, it would be
Q4 at the earliest - so August definitely not possible.

So I think the international GNOME guys should not book
any time for FOSSCON in 2004 until you hear otherwise.

Sorry,
Imran

Hasbullah Bin Pit wrote:
> 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


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