Re: Reminder for GNOME.Asia 2012 IRC Meeting - 2012-4-17

[Haggen So <haggenso gmail com>]

On 18 April 2012 10:58, Will LaShell <will lashell net> wrote:
> Due to timing I am basically never able to be at the meeting in irc.
>
> On Apr 17, 2012, at 5:14 AM, Akhil Laddha wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 15:27 +0800, Sammy Fung wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am not available to join irc meeting tonight.
>>>
>>> Hereby is my report.
>>>      * I, Will and Max discussed on gtalk and closed all tickets
>>>        listed on todo document. Thanks Will and Max.
>>>
>>> I suggest we should discuss on this irc meeting.
>>>
>>>      * Schedule:
>>>              * Pls refer to schedule shown on website, ie.
>>>                http://2012.gnome.asia/schedule/
>>>              * Should we have BoF insteads of networking dinner ? If
>>>                BoF, please propose how should we run BoF this year.
>>>                (if posssible)
>>
>> During recent GUADEC and Desktop summit BoFs / workshops were done on
>> separate days than conference days but during GNOME.Asia 2010, BoFs were
>> scheduled during evening when conference talks were over like from 6 pm
>> to 8 pm afair.
>>
>> For reference :
>> GUADEC 2010 BoF schedule http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/2010/BOFs
>> Desktop Summit 2011
>> https://www.desktopsummit.org/program/workshops-bofs
>> http://wiki.desktopsummit.org/Workshops_%26_BoFs/Schedule
>
> I really like the idea of the BOF sessions put at the end of the day  during the conference. This gives us more content to present to sponsors .
> +!

We have 2 nights, so we can have BOF for one and professional
networking for the other. The professional networking is the result of
syncing with GUADEC sponsorship and is already included in both
sponsorship brochure. We need to have it.

>
>>
>>>              * Should we have keynote at the beginning of afternoon
>>>                sessions ? (if agree, we move some keynotes to
>>>                afterrnoon, is it ok ?)
>>
>> Usually keynotes are scheduled in early morning (between 9 -11 am) and
>> late evening (4 -5 pm) time slots so that keynotes can be attended by
>> maximum people.
>>
>
> This is definitely consistent with the previous Summits.
>
>>>      * Sponsors:
>>>              * HK teams are contacting local potential sponsors,
>>>                media partners, supporting organisations.
>>>      * Call For Papers:
>>>              * Should we extend the deadline by 1 week ?
>>
>> +1
>>
>
> We are getting some nice responses but I think if we let it run another week we will get more entries.
>
>> Regards,
>> Akhil
>>
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