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
