Re: GNOME Speakers and goodies - MOSC2011

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Hi,

Le mardi 07 juin 2011, à 14:18 +0800, Pockey Lam a écrit :
> Hi Vincent, hi all,
> 
> We are informed that there will be a conference in Malaysia named
> MOSC2011 (3-5 July, 2011), the organizer is asking us if we can send
> them some GNOME related goodies e.g. dvds, stickers, tshirts to
> distribute in their conference bags.They target to have 300
> participants. So the quantity will be 300 pcs each. For less and
> more value goodies, they will distribute them through questionnaires
> or lucky draw. Please let me know if you have any to give away.

Would it make sense to send GNOME 3 DVDs? I can see if Sankar can do
that from India, else we can try to send boxes from Europe.

> Besides, they want us to provide speakers to talk about how to
> develop GNOME (app) for newbies (beginners) and a brief introduction
> of the GNOME community.  Other topics can be proposed by the
> community as well. I am asking Bharath (based in Bangalore, India)
> to see if he has time to go, otherwise, if you are interested or you
> have anybody in mind to recommend, please let us know. The organizer
> can provide 2 - 3 nights of hotel for accommodation. Thanks!

So we used to maintain a wiki page with potential speakers for events:
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeEvents/Speakers. It's outdated, though.

Hopefully Bharath can go. Else, we might want to encourage other people
to speak at events -- I can think of Allan, Frédéric (although he can't
for this one), Fernando, etc.

I can check if I could go, but I'm going to another event the week
after, so I'd prefer to do that only if nobody else can and if it's
really an important event for us. That's something up to the marketing
team and to the board, I guess (as it involved sponsoring travel).

FWIW, I just looked and sending someone from Europe would cost
€1300-€1400, with a full-day trip (ie, 24 hours); which is quite some
money and time to invest. So I guess any final decision depends how
important our presence to this event is :-)

Vincent

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