Re: GUADEC 2018

[Neil McGovern <neil gnome org>]

Hi Barton,

Probably both Edinburgh and Mar del Plata :)

I'll add a note to come back to you in a month, thank you so much for
your consideraton!

Neil

On Fri, 2018-04-27 at 22:13 +0000, Barton George dell com wrote:
> Hi Alberto I apologize for the delay in response.  Hi Neil, I know
> we’ve met before but I cant remember where, Debconf Edinburgh? Mar
> del Plata?
>  
> I would like to be able to figure out a way to support GUADEC 2018. 
> I remember a tweet from last GUADEC saying something about the XPS 13
> dev editions gaining on (passing?) Macs at the event.
>  
> There are some org tweaks happening that could make this more likely
> (or less 😊)   If you don’t hear back from me within a month, woul
> d you mind pinging me?
>  
> Thanks!
>  
> Barton George
> Office of the CTO
> Dell EMC
> mobile + 1 512 705 9245
> blog bartongeorge.io 
> twitter @barton808
>  
>  
> From: arclnx gmail com [mailto:arclnx gmail com] On Behalf Of Alberto
> Ruiz
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2018 2:20 PM
> To: George, Barton
> Cc: Neil McGovern; sponsorship-committee gnome org
> Subject: GUADEC 2018
>  
> Hello Barton,
>
> How are you? Please let me introduce you to Neil (on CC) our
> Executive Director.
>
> A lot has happened since we spoke last year about GNOME.
>
> Since we have a new situation, meaning, Ubuntu shipping GNOME and
> Canonical focusing on integration and polishing rather than heavy
> development, the underlying desktop and a lot of the OS
> infrastructure that runs the sputnik program is heavy lifted
> cooperatively by the GNOME community nowadays. I was wondering if
> Dell would reconsider their explicit support to the GNOME community
> through sponsoring GUADEC, our annual event.
>
> The money is used not just to make GUADEC happen, but there is a
> surplus that we use to fund hackfests throughout the year, as an
> example we are running a GNOME performance hackfest in Cambridge next
> month to improve battery life and general resource consumption by the
> core GNOME desktop.
>
> Here's a link to the brochure for this years' edition with all the
> different levels and prices:
> https://2018.guadec.org/images/conference-brochure-2018-web.pdf
>
> Looking forward to hear your thoughts on this.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Alberto Ruiz
-- 
Neil McGovern
Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation