RE: GUADEC 2018

[<Barton George dell com>]

Hey Neil,

The request has found its way to our folks in Spain. 

Let me ping them and see where they are at.

Thanks!

Barton George
Dell | Linux and developer lead
mobile + 1 512 705 9245
blog bartongeorge.io | twitter @barton808
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Neil McGovern [mailto:neil gnome org] 
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2018 10:19 AM
To: George, Barton; aruiz gnome org
Cc: sponsorship-committee gnome org; Dunlap, Geoffrey
Subject: Re: GUADEC 2018

Hi Barton,

Just a reminder that we said we'd come back to you :) Have you had any thoughts on this?

Thanks,
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