You can request financial support from the asf and work on targeted corporate sponsors for meetups and hackathons with fundraising.
You can request stickers as well. There is a budget for that too! Sounds like you are working on this well! On Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 03:53 Ovilia <oviliazh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd suggest we start in Shanghai because there are more developers in > Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen, and I have more resources here in > Shanghai. > > I've asked some friends about the site fees. > Normally, the price for a meeting room for 200 people is about > ¥10,000-15,000 (USD $ 1500-2000) half-day. > A friend from Microsoft offered a free meeting room with 100 seats in 漕河泾. > Or we could consider conference rooms inside universities. For example, the > price of a 250-seat room in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which was the > university I graduated from, is about ¥1,200 (USD $170) half day. This > could save much money and more students can join the event. But the > location is in 闵行 so it may be a little remote. > *Which one do you prefer?* > > Other costs include providing drinking water and printed stickers or > posters. > I think the overall budget could be under ¥2000 (USD $300). So we could > raise the money by ourselves and it could work even without sponsorship. > > > > About the topic, I'm thinking of keynotes from the PPMC and speeches from > call-for-speakers, and lightning talks, whose durations are about 20-30min, > 15-20min, and 5-10min. > Here are some ideas of keynote topics: > 1. Community and the Apache Way > 2. ECharts products and what you can do with it > 3. Algorithm and performance insights with ECharts > 4. Cross-platform solution > 5. 3D rendering with ECharts GL > 6. How to make ECharts extensions > > > Everyone, please give advice with your ideas! > > Wenli > > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 3:24 PM Zu Ming <diysi...@163.com> wrote: > > > Great idea! > > > > > > ECharts can introduce the design of the framework on meetup, so that > > potential contributors can better understand how to do pr for ECharts. > You > > can also post the next demand plan and ask the developer what they need. > > > > > > I look forward to further action. If there are more detailed plans could > > be discussed together, such as content preparation, location, frequency > of > > activities, promotion plan, budget cost and so on. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Zu Ming > > > > > > > > At 2019-09-18 14:19:18, "Ovilia" <oviliazh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > > > >I've been thinking about holding an ECharts offline meetup recently to > > know > > >more about our users and encourage more to join our community. > > > > > >I heard about many open source projects hold monthly or yearly events. I > > >think we could start with one, and then see if it works. > > > > > >We can share about technical topics like code structure to help others > > >understand the source code, and non-technical topics like the Apache > Way, > > >how to contribute, and etc. We could also learn from the community about > > >what they used ECharts for and what do they need help with. > > > > > >What do you guys think about this? > > > > > >Wenli > > >
