Hello GNOME leaders,
Have you ever thought about organizing a GUADEC event where you live? You are receiving this email because we think you could help. The GNOME Community works with the help of volunteers like those people who organized the recent GNOME 3 Launch Parties [1] around the world.
The GNOME Foundation recently sent out a "Call for Bids" for hosting GUADEC 2012 and we are looking for strong organizers and a community to host this major GNOME event. We think your city would be a wonderful place for GUADEC because it meets good criteria for a large GNOME event like GUADEC:
The GUADEC Planning Committee is happy to help you understand how to put together a good bid. If you have any questions about hosting the GUADEC or about how to write a good bid, then feel free to contact the GUADEC Planning committee:
The below documents should be helpful, and we strongly encourage you to read them:
GUADEC Planning HowTo[4]
Furthermore, we would like you to consider joining the GUADEC Planning Committee. Leaders like you with rich experience will bring lots of value to the GUADEC committee. You can help us review bids received, help build the GUADEC website, and work with GUADEC sponsors.
We also would like to encourage you to attend GUADEC at the Desktop Summit [6] in August, 2011. This will be a great opportunity for people to network with GNOME community leaders, and you can be the first to meet the new GNOME Foundation Executive Director. We will have a GUADEC Planning Committee meeting during the Desktop Summit, and GUADEC committee members will meet face to face, plan and hack together. Please join us, it will be exciting!
Finally, GUADEC is the GNOME European event, but is also the most international GNOME event. It has been held in far flung corners of Europe such as the Gran Canaria islands, Norway, and Istanbul. We encourage you to submit a bid even if it stretches our imagination of what GNOME and Europe might include.
We are looking forward to your bids!
Sincerely, GUADEC committee