Re: GSoC students at GUADEC

[Baris Cicek <baris teamforce name tr>]

Hi Ruben and others;

Please book, even buy your tickets if you plan to attend GUADEC 2008.
Sponsorship mechanism works in such a way that you pledge the refund for
your plane ticket, it's not GUADEC organizers buy your ticket. So either
way (you're sponsored or not) you should buy cheapest ticket possible. 

Also this year I may ask partial sponsorship option to GSoC students
(ie. you pay some part of your plane ticket, we pay some part of it) in
order to make them sponsored even though we have tight budget. 

Regards,
Baris Cicek

On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 13:44 +0200, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
> Like most students here, I already filed my sponsorship request. I
> really want to do an ad-hoc usability testing session for f-spot at
> GUADEC.
> 
> I do hope we get response to these requests soon, I'd like to book soon
> in case I can't get sponsoring (which will be a financial drain I'm not
> looking forward to).
> 
> Apart from the financial side: How about a GSoC talk or so, where we,
> the students can show what they are working on? This raises visibility
> and also speeds up the student-community integration.
> 
> On za, 2008-05-17 at 01:51 +0300, Lucas Rocha wrote:
> > Dear students,
> > 
> > You probably know about GUADEC, the biggest GNOME conference, where a
> > lot of our community members meet every year. In 2008, it's happening
> > in July in Istambul (Turkey). You can learn more about it at:
> > 
> >   http://www.guadec.org/
> > 
> > Last year, some of the GSoC students were able to attend GUADEC and it
> > was really fun and useful. Meeting your mentor, some people interested
> > in your project and other community members has a positive impact on
> > your work. Showing what you already achieved is also fantastic to get
> > some good feedback.
> > 
> > So it's probably a good thing for the students of this year's GSoC to
> > attend GUADEC, if possible. We talked with GUADEC organizers, and they
> > support the idea. While there's no guarantee, it's possible that you
> > can get a sponsorship to attend GUADEC, if you need it. Our budget is
> > limited, but we'll do our best. Of course, attending GUADEC is not
> > mandatory. :-)
> > 
> > So, we'd like to know if you'd like to attend the conference and if
> > you'll need sponsorship for doing so. This will help the GUADEC
> > organizers a bit. Please show them some love and reply to this mail
> > asap so we can know about your plans wrt GUADEC.
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > 
> > --lucasr
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> 
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> Ruben Vermeersch (rubenv)
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