Hi, In line as I have been mentioned :)
El dj 12 de 06 de 2008 a les 14:43 -0500, en/na Diego Escalante Urrelo va escriure: > Hi > > On 6/10/08, Enver ALTIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > A stand at the airport, with a big GNOME logo on it. At least one > > English-speaking volunteer at the stand to be there to prevent people from > > getting lost in the city. > > > > YES, PLEASE!. For this we will need to fill in the travel details for > everyone: > http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/2008/Travel > > I think the ideal -if done- would be to have two or three guys hanging > around on the "crowded" hours of arrival, greet the newcomer and give > some indications like which bus to take. No need for taking people > from airport to hotel, but just receiving directions from a GNOME guy > is much better than asking a random guy, I think. > > > > A shuttle bus between the common hotels area and the airport. > > > > Again, maybe for the crowded hours? We need to make a call for filling > arrival hours in the wiki if this would be possible. > > > A team for everything about the transportation in Istanbul. This is roughly > > a "I'm lost! Help!" or "How do I go to Topkapi Palace" hotline. > > It's useful to have a GUADEC 911 line, maybe forwarded to more than > one cellphone or something, if someone can take the responsibility, > please tell us which number to relay on. I would still be trapped in > Birmingham's airport if there wasn't a 911 line last year. > > > Event organization team for people willing to explore the city. This team > > would collect the FAQ that will answer to "which museum should we visit?" or > > "where should we have dinner?" sort of questions and organize tours. > > > > Maybe a wiki page would be enough, or just hanging around with all the > gnomies. > > > We'd like to see a dedicated accomodation organization team, there's no > > other way this problem could be tackled. There are lots of good hotels and > > hostels around; but availabilty, quality and price is always a concern. Yet, > > most of these hostels don't have websites with enough pictures so you don't > > get an idea of the room you have booked until you actually arrive. We'd love > > to see this solved by a few people actually visiting hotels, getting price > > quotes for groups, taking photos and writing reviews. > > > > Define a responsible for this task, and write something similar to > http://guadec.expectnation.com/public/content/accommodation > > Price, what it misses, what it has and rocks, etc. Grab a phone dir, > and call these options, take notes on prices and discounts and if you > have the time go visit the hotels. Most of them are usually honest > about what they have and what they don't, in the worst case there are > always options so we can dump the liers ipso-facto. > > > We'd like to see an appointed visa issues guy. Getting a visa shouldn't be a > > problem at all, but just in case. People from certain countries may need > > special help. > > > > There's already a contact for visa letters, luckily only few of us > have needed one. If YOU are needing a Visa, please mail Baris. Check > the requisites for your country. > > > Local IT support team. We think this is a must. There will be network, > > electricity, wiring, IP, firewall, whatever problems and we don't really > > want people blogging about how bad that broken thing affects their lives. > > > > Is Gil going to be helping in infra again? Gil?. I guess most of the > work will be done in coordinating with univ's IT staff on getting > ports open and etc. Don't know, I offered myself to Baris, but since it's an university I don't know if everything is already ready (great pun eh eh). Baris? Do you need me? :) > > We'd probably get some professional help from a local ticket sales office > > for airline and route planning before it's too late. We could get someone to > > volunteer for that, and that someone could use Skype or e-mail for easier > > communication. > > Local press relations. We'd love to see translated press releases appear on > > IT magazines and national press around here before and after the conference. > > > > Copy GUADEC's press release and/or write a quick note yourself and > mail it to local newspapers "reader contact" addresses, basically give > them a friendly reminder on this. Some of them will be interested, > those who not wouldn't go to GUADEC anyway, so no big loss. If you > know any local reporter, ask for his help to contact others directly. > > > Creating hype and awareness is important for us. > > We'd love to see the entry barrier lowered for people with technical > > decision making positions in Turkish governmental organizations; so that > > they can see the people developing the software they use for themselves. > > Govt. people attending means there will be some amount of native Turkish > > people who don't speak and understand English very well. We've successfully > > used simultaneous English-to-Turkish translation for certain events in the > > past, we can most probably use it again at least for large-audience talks in > > GUADEC. It would be great to add a checkbox like "I would use simultaneous > > translation if available" to the registration page so we can get an idea > > about the demand beforehand. > > > > I think GUADEC is more a niché thing, with gnome devs and users in > mind, more than decision makers, and etc. It is nice to have them, but > I don't think that they would make any decision after seeing a clutter > presentation or listening to Lennart talk about spatial audio and that > crack. > > > More hype: In one of the previous events we were able to invite an official > > to join the opening talk from the Ministry of Transportation (which > > regulates the IT sector in Turkey). We'd love to do this again, but it looks > > like it's already a bit late. Well, I agree that this one is too high on the > > sky. > > > > There are certain people we'd love to see talking at GUADEC and this > > includes the Pardus project, which is a Linux distribution project primarily > > funded by The National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology. It > > looks like their attention is towards aKademy but we definitely should > > invite them because for now they've become one of the big flags for free > > software in Turkey. > > GUADEC is not a general free software event, it's a GNOME thing, > almost exclusively. > > Remember there's > http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/2008/Volunteer > > for taking note of volunteers or just adding ideas. A quick task would > be "10 must know phrases of Turkey: thanks, bye, hello, no, don't > know, wasn't me". Just add a table to that wiki page. > _______________________________________________ > guadec-list mailing list > guadec-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list -- gil forcada [ca] guifi.net - una xarxa lliure que no para de créixer [en] guifi.net - a non-stopping free network bloc: http://gil.badall.net -- gil forcada [ca] guifi.net - una xarxa lliure que no para de créixer [en] guifi.net - a non-stopping free network bloc: http://gil.badall.net _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
