Re: Updates about the GNOME.Asia2009 bits

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

What about also checking with some of the GNOME Foundation sponsors
that have offices in India? I believe HP, Sun, IBM, Intel, etc all
have offices there. Perhaps they'd be willing to help?

If you want to do that, I can ask the advisory board members if they
know who to contact.

Stormy

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
<sankarshan randomink org> wrote:
> It has been a while since there have been updates about it, here's
> what has been happening:
>
> Sayamindu has been helping me talk to the potential hosts (IIT-Madras
> and IIT-Mumbai) about the event. We re-used parts of the content in
> the brochure from last year to pitch at the places. However, at this
> point, we are facing two different issues:
>
> * examinations - being universities, both have their examination
> schedules are clashing with the proposed dates. The downside of that
> is that we would end up looking at a loss of volunteers and
> stakeholders at the venues
>
> * scoping - of the event. In all our talks, the institutions have been
> pretty much diligent in asking what the speaker size is, what would be
> the expected attendance etc. The underlying reason for that is to
> estimate how much the departments at the universities have to outlay
> in terms of accommodation (this generally gets back-charged) etc.
> Perception prevails that this isn't a good economic year and, it is
> natural for the departments to be wary.
>
> Bottom-line, I am not too upbeat about the way things are going. I am
> planning to approach a few other venues especially institutions to
> check out how things stand. I am giving myself another week for that,
> after that, I plan to informally sound out what it takes to get an
> event management group handle it.
>
> ~s
>
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