On 11/15/2010 04:24 AM, Joey Ferwerda wrote:
@Brian: We need the hackfest in end of februari or beginning of march because of the Launch of GNOME 3.As Brian and Fred said, the date of GNOME.Asia is not confirmed yet, we can always set the date of GNOME.Asia Hackfest in end of Feb or early March if it can help the GNOME 3.0 launch in terms of marketing. We initially set the date to April is due to some feedback from our survey, however, we are very flexible and willing to listen to advices. For your reference, our local organisers are preparing proposals to host the hackfest, potential venues will be in Hong Kong, Indonesia or India. The proposals will be submitted to us end of this month, I will definitely share those proposals with the marketing list with you. In order to get feedbacks to host this hackfest, we prepared a pre-event survey at http://survey.gnome.asia/ and asked our target audiences to join including the marketing team. The deadline of this pre-event survey is 16th Nov Tuesday, some abstracts of the pre-event survey is as below: We have 78 responses in total so far- 1) 63% respondents are from Asia. 2) 31% respondents involved with the GNOME 3.0 release 3) 70% respondents want to join the event 4) Most respondents prefer to host the event during or after the GNOME 3.0 release 5) HK is the leading hosting city, followed by Bali and Jakarta (Indonesia), Bangalore (India). 6) Most respondents prefer universities (50%) as venue, followed by resorts (31%) and offices (24%) 7) around 1/3 respondents can manage their travel cost by themselves, while 1/3 respondents asked to cover all their travel expenses, another 1/3 asked to cover part of their expenses 8) from the above respondents that need travel subsidy, 2/3 asked to sponsor below 1,200 USD, 1/3 asked to sponsor up to 2,000 USD 9) 6 of them are interested to be speakers in the one day conference and left their email addresses for us to contact them I will also share the detail results / statistics of this pre-event survey with you upon the deadline.
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