On 08/12/2011 11:47 AM, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Louis Desjardins > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Joao ! >> >> So far and to my knowledge the only formal and yet to be officially proposed >> (only a matter of vacation time, actually) and the most serious location and >> team is Toulouse in France. More to come in the coming weeks (or days, >> even). > > > For this to work, we have to ask for sponsorship right now - this meas > we can get sponsorship for the air tickets sponsored as well. > Can someone give me a figure of (max) number of developers/lecturers > who should be sponsored? If we can factor this in in the sponsorship, > we get over the main difficult of > hosting it "far away" from Europe/North America. > > IIRC, there's never been a fixed number of people in the past. Every effort was made to sponsor everyone who didn't have an employer- or project-sponsored ticket, and the total was divided up as equitably as possible. But I could be wrong; I've only been on the periphery of those discussions. > The sposorship and organizers are actually related with "gnugraf" - a > user oriented > Libre Graphics event that is holding its 4th instance this year: > http://gnugraf.org/ > > > People are interested in making "gnugraf" much larger for 2012 - and are > getting > professional help for this to happen - I am meeting the person > responsible for getting this sponsorship for the next 2 days (Eliane > Domingos, copyed here) - so that we can have "gnugraf 5" and "Libre > Graphics Meeting 2012" as one single thing. > I for one thing that's great; since LGM has always been a moveable feast (so to speak), trying to co-locate it with calendar-and-geographically near events seems like an excellent opportunity. Puts far less strain on the local organizing team (which is part of why I perceive it's been harder to get proposals going as the years progress). Plus you have access to a potentially wider audience, and perhaps more developers could get approval for employer travel funding.
At least I think that the former seems to work for some other events (like Community Leadership Summit and OSCON) the latter seems to work for several kernel events. Well that's my 2 céntimos, anyway -- anything that greases the machinery of progress.... Nate -- nathan.p.willis [email protected] aim/ym/gtalk:n8willis identi.ca/n8 _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
