Dear On 06/27/2011 12:14 PM, Pockey Lam wrote:
Dear all,
The
deadline of call for proposal of GNOME.Asia Summit
2012 is approaching (July 4, 2011 Monday
UTC 2359),
do drop us an email if you have any question
regarding the proposal. Continue to help
us to spread the word and look forward to receiving
your proposal!
Thanks!
Pockey
-------- Original Message --------
Dear all,
The GNOME.Asia Committee is inviting proposals to
host GNOME.Asia Summit during the 1st quarter of
2012. GNOME.Asia Summit is the yearly GNOME Users
and Developers Conference in Asia. The event
focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop, and also
covers applications and the development platform
tools. It brings together the GNOME community in
Asia to provide a forum for users, developers,
foundation leaders, governments and businesses to
discuss both the present technology and future
developments.
GNOME.Asia Summit was held in Beijing,
Ho-Chi-Minh City, Taipei and Bangalore
respectively over the last four years. We would
like to continue finding new locations as we
spread GNOME throughout Asia, and we are looking
for local organizers to rise to the challenge of
organizing an excellent GNOME event. The
GNOME.Asia committee will assist in the process,
but there is a definitive need for individuals to
be actively involved and committed to the planning
and delivery of the event.
You can learn more about GNOME.Asia Summit at our
official website: http://www.gnome.asia
For those of you who would like to host the next
GNOME.Asia Summit in 2012 you are hereby invited
to write a formal proposal to the
gnome-asia-committee-list <at> gnome
<dot> org . The deadline for the proposals
is July 4, 2011 Monday UTC 2359. Please send your
proposal to gnome-asia-committee-list <at>
gnome <dot> org. We might invite you to
present your proposal in more details over our
regular IRC meetings, or send you additional
questions and requests. Results will be announced
by the end of July 2011.
The conference will require availability of
facilities for one week, including a weekend,
during the 1st quarter of 2012 (January to March
2012). Dates should avoid other key free software
conferences or other events that may have conflict
and will be confirmed together with other GNOME
teams which might get involved.
Key points which proposals should consider, and
which will be taken into account when deciding
among candidates, are:
- Local community support for hosting the
conference.
- Venue details. Information about
infrastructure and facilities to hold the
conference should be provided.
- Information about how internet connectivity
will be managed.
- Lodging choices ranging from affordable
housing to nicer hotels, and information about
distances between the venue and lodging options.
- The availability of restaurants or the
organization of catering on-site, cost of
food/soft drinks/beer.
- The availability and cost of travel from major
Asian and European cities.
- Local industry and government support.
- Please provide a reasonably detailed budget.
- Bear in mind that at GNOME.Asia Summit, the
hallway track and social activities are also
very important.
Please check the GNOME.Asia Summit check list [1]
and howtos [2] when putting together a proposal.
Please also feel free to contact
gnome-asia-committee-list <at> gnome
<dot> org if you have any questions.
Please help to spread the words and we are
looking forward to hearing from you soon!
GNOME.Asia Committee
Pockey Lam
[1] http://2011.gnome.asia/about/gnomeasia/event-organization-checklist
[2] http://2011.gnome.asia/about/gnomeasia/summit-planning-howto
