Re: [gugmasters] GNOME 3.0 Launch party - queries

[Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org>]

Dear Shirish,

We have almost 90 parties registered until now, in which there are 
almost 20 parties organizing in India :) At the same time, we are 
organizing a big GNOME international event in Bangalore. I strongly 
believe GNOME is quite strong in India at least starting from this year!

We definitely trust you to organize the launch party and promote GNOME 
in your area, hence please keep preparing your party, help us to inspire 
more people to use / contribute to the GNOME project in your area. We 
will definitely ship the schwag to you, all the best to your preparation!

Regards,
Pockey

On 02/09/2011 02:30 AM, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> Dear Pockey,
>              I had put up the event on two mailing lists in Pune.
> http://groups.google.com/group/cofsug/browse_thread/thread/a44b47702528d73e
>
> and
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/fsugp/browse_thread/thread/27ef44d864e33494
>
> while on the list I didn't get any replies off-list I did get few
> replies stating we cannot commit for dates and venue so much in
> advance.
>
> I have to admit I did not use the communication issued by gnome but
> that is due to the ground situation here.
>
> One of the problems might be there is quite a good *cough* KDE *cough*
> community in Pune. KDE does have a strong presence in India and
> specifically my city. Please see http://kde.in/
>
> What had happened is that I had spoken to people in both the colleges
> informally and they had responded positively and now it seems slightly
> remote.
>
> I am in a fix to what to do :-
>
> a. Let the schwag come in and then try getting people involved into it.
>
> b. Take my name out but still try to play with gnome-shell but in an
> individual capacity.I can always show it off around that time in the
> monthly FOSS meet-up and show what works or doesn't work on a laptop.
>
> Looking forward to your suggestion for taking future course as I do
> not want to give any false impressions of the same.