On 11/12/2010 04:14 AM, Brian Cameron wrote:
>
> Jason:
>
>> We need to have another marketing hackfest in preparation for the GNOME
>> 3.0 launch. This will be entirely work-oriented. The date ranges
>> available for this are the two weeks immediately following the UI
>> freeze: February 26th - March 13th.
>>
>> Please reply to this email with your availability: where can you travel
>> and what dates are you available?
>
> The GNOME.Asia community was been planning to host a hackfest that
> coincides with the GNOME 3.0 release. The point of their hackfest was
> to get people together to work on tasks that need to get done in
> association with the launch. Would it make sense to plan to do such
> marketing hackfest work at the GNOME.Asia 3.0 launch hackfest?
>
>
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit
>
> Their current plans have been to have their event a bit later (early
> April), but it seems worth discussing with them. I imagine they
> would consider moving their event earlier if that would better fit in
> with the needs of relevant groups such as the Marketing team.
>
> At any rate, some discussion with them to determine how marketing
> hackfest plans should be coordinated seems appropriate. There may be
> opportunities to do some different marketing things at both events
> if we decide to keep them separate events, for example.
>
> Brian
