Dear Fred and Pockey, Thanks for the quick reply!
above goodies,i will keep trying to get sponsor form software companies and i will try to ask out shops for how much cost will be to produce banner and balloon if it is low cost i will sponsor my self or else if it will be big amount will try to get sponsors. and for the domain i will add cc to [email protected] and will keep ask over there because it is very important for connecting people under official group i will work hard to get this! as much i can find free time to work with gnome and keep updating news from srilanka! Thank in advance! regards, Suresh On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Pockey Lam <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Suresh, > > On top of what Fred advised, please find some GNOME related slides here: > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial/Presentations > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit/Slides > > And if you need help in getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org, please send > a request to the gnome-infrastructure list and specify your need and > requirements: > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure > > All the best to your event and your establishment of GNOME User Group! > Please do let us know if you have any other question and keep us posted on > the status :) > > Cheers, > Pockey > > On 04/13/2011 11:56 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: > > Dear Suresh, > > First thank you for contacting us and showing so much interest in promoting > GNOME. I have copied the gugmasters-list@ as it is usually a more > appropriate place for those kind of requests. > > For the goodies part you have unfortunately missed the launch party offer by > about 2 months (we sent goodies to any party organizer who registered before > February 15th). I am not sure when we will have a similar offer again. My > experience in Bangalore during the GNOME.Asia Summit was that production > costs in India were very low as. I assume it stands true for Sri Lanka as > well. > > Considering you seem to be trying to organize quite a big event I would aim > to secure a few local sponsors (such as local IT companies, NPO, companies > targeting your people interested by technology). I think if you're able to > make a clear budget to cover water cost and a few stickers/balloons/banner > you will easily find people or companies to support you. We will happily > review your work if you need. > > Regarding setting up a gnome user group I would first recommend you this > presentation that was given during the 2011 GNOME.Asia Summit: > https://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit/Slides?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Pockey-Building-GNOME-User-Group.odp > > then visit https://live.gnome.org/UserGroups which goes into more details. > > And then you can come back to us posting on gugmasters-list@ with further > questions if you have any. > > I hope I managed to address your question and look forward to be able to > help further if needed. > > Thanks. > > Fred > > On 04/13/2011 11:27 PM, Suresh Packiyarajah wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dear folks, > > First of all i would like to thanks for here from me! > > I comes from Srilanka(near the india) my name is Suresh! newly guard > from university and begin working with Network Eng! already i am > working with Fedora as a Fedora Ambassador-Srilanka and project > contributor,Locational projects too! > > We are going to do first Event from Open source name like Fedora > Activity Day with Gnome and Firefox ! may be it will happen within > couple of months(almost may end) > still i have an activity with adding cc to bugs and most of time used > to online #gnome(freenode),#gnome(irc.gnome.org),#bug reviewing the > old log which i needed for the my future activity with gnome and > answering question at#gnome(freenode) if i knew. > > Couple of day ago i spoke to AV(Andrea Veri) via IRC who is working > for sysadmin part (and our Fedora team member too) about how can i > contribute to gnome.actually what we need from marketing team some > advices and some matériels.because we are going to do this first even > very grandly so i am planning to put three boots in order to > Fedora,Gnome and Firefox also main presentation at Auditorium via > speakers!i have many university students help so there are no issue > with it and computer multimedia presentation equipments by university. > > I am official Fedora/Redhat person so i will provided from Fedora > media live cd/Dvd,balloons,pens and stickers meanwhile wearing fedora > T-shirt and Fedora banner too. > i would like to here from you can you provide a like Gnome > stickers,some gnome balloons and mainly i need Gnome banner.because i > am going to arrange these things for Gnome boot.and also i have > contacted with Mozilla may be i will received confirm mail by this week. > > i have keep in touch subscriber of Gnome marketing channel i would > like to do Gnome marketing in srilanka to spread Gnome among srilanka > only if you are allowed the permission. > > Also i would like to ask we are going to have gnome user group under > asia summit in-order to have this can you provide domain for this and > other facilities too .here we have many university students pc's > running under gnome.they all willing to join with gnome world and hope > it will bridge between gnome world and srilanka. > > once i finished our event i will keep update reports and events photos > to gnome wiki and keep in touch with gnome marketing team! > > i have run social media network via facebook and twitter to connects > gnome fans around the world. > > i hope you all have understood our motivations.we all look forward to > here from You! > > Thanks for your all valuable time! > > Fedora wiki > :https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Suresht > <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Suresht> > Gnomewiki :http://live.gnome.org/Sureshkumar > Packiyarajah <https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Yumsuresht> > Gnome social network[5]: > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fedoraby-RedHatGnomeFirefox/154439141286240 > <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fedoraby-RedHatGnomeFirefox/154439141286240> > > > > > > > Just a little less than two months out, but good to start and plan! :) > ============================== > =========== > Sending positive Fedora 14 and Fedora 15 energy from my computer to > yours. :v) > > Please have a great day and/or evening! :~) > > > > Thank You > > Sincerely > > =-=-=-=-= > > - - Suresh - > > =-=-=-=-= > > Sureshkumar Packiyarajah > - - - --- > Fedora Ambassador - Sri Lanka. > > > - --------------------------------- > full time linux registered user#531647 > ieee:[email protected] <mailto:ieee:[email protected]> > > gpg-0x071DDF70 > Key fingerprint = 80F2 6188 4A9C 82B9 5C10 0B89 D540 CA17 071D DF70 > > ???????? 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