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Brian,
Thanks. I was more interested at first if you could hold a conference in the DC area and if not, where are some of the conferences nearby the DC area for the upcoming year of 2012? I would really like to attend one nearby even it is in Boston. My other question is: If the conference is held in Boston, is it okay to blog about or video record and send to this list? Thanks, > Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:54:14 -0600 > From: brian cameron oracle com > To: tgmiller5 hotmail com > CC: sriram ramkrishna gmail com; marketing-list gnome org > Subject: Re: speaker schedules for conference > > > Tammy: > > On 12/24/11 04:51 AM, Tammy Miller wrote: > > That is a great idea. Is it possible to have a conference in the DC > > metro area? > > Do you mean a GNOME specific conference? The GNOME Foundation does > have a yearly GNOME-specific event in the fall over Columbus Day > weekend. This typically has been held in Boston, but was held in > Toronto last year. > > http://live.gnome.org/BostonSummit > > There has been some discussion about where a U.S. GNOME conference > should be held in 2012. People have proposed having it in Boston > or Portland so far. The GNOME Foundation would seriously consider > any city with a strong GNOME volunteer community excited to make > a GNOME event happen. > > It is often easy to arrange for a GNOME presence at any regional FOSS > (Free/Open Source Software) event in your area. The GNOME Foundation > can make arrangements to send posters, stickers, GNOME DVD's, etc. to > help promote GNOME at any local event. Just ask. Some events also put > together their own GNOME event t-shirt (or other specific goodies), but > this typically only happens when the local GNOME volunteers make > arrangements to do the needed design work, etc. > > The GNOME Foundation does also organize GNOME specific events, which > are often hackfests with 5-20 people hacking away on some specific > GNOME project. Typically, the people working on such projects approach > the GNOME Foundation with a proposal when they are ready to work > together in this way. When hackfests require funding, the proposal > typically includes an expected budget to explain expected travel costs, > etc. > > Hopefully this gives you some perspective on how we organize events, > and how you can participate if interested. If you have any questions > please ask. > > Brian |