Re: [guadec-local] pre-conference

[Sanne te Meerman <sanne opensourceadvies nl>]

Dave Neary schreef:
> Hi Sanne,
>
> Sanne te Meerman wrote:
>   
> > -I'm suggesting a couple of sessions, presentations... suggestions,
> > comment?
> >     
>
> If the target for the half-day is government, then sessions on things
> like thin clients, management of big deployments and how to do
> co-development would be top of my list of sessions. Many government
> agencies want to contribute, but don't knnow how, or are hamstrung by
> regulations.
ok
>  I'd like to see a "Hacking acquisition rules to use more
> commercial free software" session, for example :)
>   
I'm not sure what you mean... you mean government procurement rules?
>   
> > -Who are the best people to approach for these sessions as speakers,
> > both within and outside or GNOME: i.e. Governments with experience with
> > gnome, (France?-gendarmerie), introduction of GNOME community
> >     
>
> Gendarmerie -> contact Chris Kenyon in Canonical. If he didn't do the
> sale himself, he will know the key people in the project who did, and
> perhaps sort you out with a suitably high-level introduction.
>   
ok, have you got an email?
> Assemblée National -> Idem - it's Ubuntu again, although I believe
> Linagora got that contract...
>
> Other governments with GNOME experience: Andalucia, Extremadura, Bhutan,
> Itaipu power station in Brazil, and in general the province of Paranà,
> also Sao Paolo, for smaller more local examples,
>
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/GnomeTestimonials
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/GnomeDeployments
> http://gnomejournal.org/article/27/gnome-deployment-pangea
>
> should give you some more (older) examples.
>   
thanks, I'll work with that.
>   
> > -Can we use some of the material/focus later on in the real conference
> > (but then focusing more on technical side of things, i.e. deployment of
> > gnome with 500+ clients etc. (suggestion of Dave Neary).
> >     
>
> I think it's a great idea to have one part of the conference focussed on
> getting government GNOME users & prospects together, 
I'm not sure what you mean here. You mean investigating which prospects 
there might be within government?
> and another part of
> the conference to enable conversations between govt & developers. Let's
> limit the govt content in GUADEC to make sure that (a) it's the most
> interesting possible and 
yes, by having a small pre-conference with govt, we can leave out govt. 
sessions during the conference, was my idea.

> (b) we allow those conversations to start.
>   
Again, can you elaborate (sorry, could be me). You mean have few 
sessions and create possibilities for intereaction gov-gnome?
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
>