On Di, 2012-05-08 at 15:01 -0400, Emily Gonyer wrote: > Hi there! > > I am planning on attending GUADEC, and I'd love to give a lightening > talk on GNOME Clock. I am currently debating whether it'd be a good > idea to stay in the hotel in A Coruña which is the 'official' GUADEC > hotel or not - its a bit more than I usually spend on a hotel, but if > most people stay there I'll probably bite the bullet and stay there... > any thoughts on that regard? usually it's lot of fun staying in the same hotel as most of the people. also, if you are sponsored you probably will stay in the main hotel, although afaik it is not yet decided which hotel will be the "sponsored" one. > > Emily > > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio > <fabiano fidencio org> wrote: > Howdy! > > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:13 PM, daniel g. siegel > <dgsiegel gnome org> wrote: > > > All work and no play makes you boring. So it's time for some > play, > > GUADEC! > > > > In case you don't know it (where have you been?), GUADEC is > *THE* GNOME > > conference: http://guadec.org/ > > > > And it's extremely good fun to hang out with all the GNOME > rockstars. > > 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. Please see the earlier sent > mail by > > Germán for details. Of course, attending GUADEC is not > mandatory. ;) > > > > We've also been allocated a slot for student lightning > talks. These are > > short presentations (5, 10 or 15 minutes, to be decided) > where each > > student gets the opportunity to present his/her work. It's > also a good > > way to get a lot of interest (and become, like we promised, > our next > > rockstar ;)). All of this still has to be organized though, > more on > > that later. > > > > So, we'd like to know if you'd like to attend the > conference. Please > > show us some love and reply to this mail asap so we can know > about your > > plans wrt GUADEC. Also, please do not forget to apply for > sponsorship if > > you need it before May 16, 2012, 23:59 UTC. > > > I *really* would like to attend the conference and do a short > presentation about the project's progress :-) > According with my plans, I'll depart from São Paulo, going to > Madrid > and arriving in A Coruña, probably, 2 days before the > conference and > stay in the city until the hackfests' end. > I have been applying for sponsorship, should I wait for > something? > > > > > Cheers, > > Your friendly GSoC admins. > > > > > > -- > > this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons > > ================================================ > > daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gnome org> > > http://www.dgsiegel.net > > gnupg key id: 0xDB8E409F > > fingerprint: F9DD 693C 9E8B 9121 B20B 202E C7D3 3397 DB8E > 409F > > encrypted email preferred > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnome-soc-list mailing list > > gnome-soc-list gnome org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-soc-list > > > > > > -- > > Fabiano Fidêncio > _______________________________________________ > gnome-soc-list mailing list > gnome-soc-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-soc-list > > > > > -- > Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, > power and magic in it. - Goethe > > Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't > matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss > > Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that > counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein -- this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons ================================================ daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gnome org> http://www.dgsiegel.net gnupg key id: 0xDB8E409F fingerprint: F9DD 693C 9E8B 9121 B20B 202E C7D3 3397 DB8E 409F encrypted email preferred
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