On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 07:14 -0500, meg ford wrote: > Hey Oliver, > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 5:53 AM, Oliver Propst > <[email protected]> wrote: > I think this is the page [1] you are looking for. > > We tend to create a wiki page about a specific event once we > know that > someone will attend/speak, like this one [2]. > > > > Thanks, I was aware of the pages you pointed me to :) > > > Basically I was wondering if there are events where GNOME should have > a presence, e.g. where it should be a priority, and if there could be > a list of them. We don't seem to have events for the US listed in that > way on the wiki. That way, if people can look at the page if they are > attending a conference, and if they have time they can also organize > something GNOME-related at the conference --e.g. a meetup, table, > talk, etc. > > > Does that make sense? You raise an interesting question. I still think the foundation would need to ensure that it can provide some kind of sponsorship with such list. Would be interesting to hear other people's opinions about this.
> > > and (2) is it > > possible for your team to provide a general outline of a > process non-team > > members can follow to contact your team and easily > co-ordinate a GNOME > > presence? > > Well I consider everyone who is willing to speak about GNOME a > team > member. Write to this list a good start, we are also quite > active on > irc (#engagement). > > > I've had some slight difficulty coordinating things in the > past > > because I have to send emails to so many places, wait for > responses, ask >who > > to contact next, etc :) > > Hm, the event wiki page are featured on main gnome wiki page > [3]. > For example, to get funding for the event box, I needed to write the > board, who didn't get a chance to respond to the funding request for > materials, then also Zana to coordinate the delivery of the box, then > the person who had the box, and in the end nothing happened so I just > did a booth without any box :) Its unfortunate you didn't get the box, your story highlight's a weakness in our process, it would be great if we could improve it. I think this would make an excellent agenda item for a future engagement team meeting. Cool that you did the event without a box :) > Anyway, none of it is a big deal, but since we have events here a few > times a year and I had some questions I thought I'd ask. Its really great that you are interested in hosting GNOME events and ask about this. -- -mvh Oliver Propst _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
