Re: Some thoughts on Guadec III.

[Tim Ney <ten gnome org>]

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 16:07, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> Here are some thoughts on GUADEC III.  

Thanks for the valuable material.

> * Financing
> 
> 	We need to figure out soon how much money can be raised to
> 	organize this conference.  Long gone are the days where
> 	companies had a lot of money to spare, so I predict that this
> 	year we will have a smaller budget to fly developers to the
> 	conference.

As soon as we lock in the time and place, we can do a budget.
We need to see how the topics you suggest line up with the
needs/interests of companies on the Advisory Board since they can help
fund the conference or send some of their employees.  Their
participation and underwriting will be key.  

> 	We should figure out a definite list of tutorials, talks and
> 	workshops that we will organize as well as a list of people
> 	that can attend the conference on their own.

Once we have more specific plans we can poll the people who registered
for last year's GUADEC.

> 	We should consider whether it is a possibility to do some
> 	tutorials for people interested in GNOME that are willing to
> 	pay in order to fly more hackers to the conference.

Tutorials for a fee would be an good way to generate funds.  

tim