Re: GNOME Speakers and goodies - MOSC2011

[Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org>]

On 06/07/2011 09:57 PM, Vincent Untz wrote:
> 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.

yeah! I asked them if they are interested in GNOME 3 DVDs, they do!
Please, if Sankar has 300 DVDs, Mohd can give an address in a separate 
email.

> > 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 It's outdated, though.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 :-)

I totally agreed! It makes more sense to have someone nearby to join! I 
will have a irc meeting and Bharath should join, I will ask him later!

Pockey

> Vincent