Re: [guadec-list] Howdy, a new volunteer!
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 11:15:29AM +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: Op dinsdag 04-05-2010 om 00:24 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef William from Texas: I just want to quickly introduce myself: I'm William, 26, and I live in The Hague. I write, edit and do web and IT things professionally and for fun, and am excited to help with GUADEC! Welcome! :-) Am I correct that you already are in contact with Koen and Sanne and the other members of the organising team? Will you be there at the volunteer meeting on Saturday May 8th? I had a great meeting with William yesterday (irl), so that's a yes. I've been linking William to the relevant key figures. Gr, Koen ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Howdy, a new volunteer!
On 4 May 2010 00:24, William from Texas williamfromte...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone! I just want to quickly introduce myself: I'm William, 26, and I live in The Hague. I write, edit and do web and IT things professionally and for fun, and am excited to help with GUADEC! I'll be creating web content, including: practical info, news, speaker interviews, session overviews, and suggestions welcome!. My first tasks will be: 1) tourist information, and 2) an interview with keynote speaker Danny O'Brien. I look forward to working with the web and communications teams specifically, and everyone else as well. =) Cheers William Hello, Thank you for offering your help, we can surely use it! I would want to ask you to register on the GUADEC website and give us your username. That way I can give you the correct permissions. Unfortunately (or fortunately) we'll have to give you the permissions of a Conference Manager, which means that you'll have a lot more permissions than you actually need. You can place announcements by going to: User Home-Conference Manager-Announcements. If you have any other content, ideas or issues: please let us know. If I'm on IRC I'll be able to help you quickly, otherwise you can always send a mail. Regards, -- Sense Hofstede [ˈsɛn.sə ˈɦɔf.steː.də] ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
[guadec-list] Training page
Hi Sense, I believe that you are the person that I should talk to to get a web page up on the site for the training course I'm organising. I have the content for the page, but it will need to be laid out, and I am working with a graphic designer to create a promotional pamphlet to go with the course too. What information do you need from me? Is there a way I can create a page and submit it to you for moderation, or should I just submit the page text sections, and let you do the lay-out? What is the best way to proceed? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Documentation Room at GUADEC
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 22:01 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 13:21 +0100, Koen Martens wrote: Hi Shaun, On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 09:08:20AM -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: I'd like to propose having a documentation room at GUADEC. Basically, I want to have a room for a few hours where the Gnome documentation team will be, and anybody can come in to get one-on-one hands-on help with doing documentation. I'm looking at the schedule outline here: http://wordpress.metro.cx/2010/03/11/guadec-2010-schedule-and-cfp-deadline/ I don't know how the main conference program is going to shake out, but I fear that nobody will come if it's in the middle of cool talks. And really, it's important for the documentation team to attend those talks, because it's how we learn what's going on, and what we need to write. Would it be possible to do something on Monday? It's late enough that a lot of people should already be there, but still before the main event. That'd be possible, yes. We have several options available, both at the venue itself and outside. The latter is mostly useful if you plan to do things in the evening. How big would the group be you estimate? Would you need presentation equipment? Any other requirements?? Hi Koen, Thanks for getting back to me. Sorry I took so long to respond. I was off at a couple of conferences. I think we'd like something in the daytime, when people are there and ready to write. What I'd envisioned is having all the core documentation people there, and inviting people to come by to get one-on-one help with writing. I've found it's much easier to show people who to plan and write good help in person. I'm looking at the overview here: http://guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010/schedConf/overview I notice that there's a hacklab in the foyer for the three main days of the conference. The foyer, C2, and Aula are unoccupied on Tuesday. Would it be possible to have an all-day documentation lab in one of those rooms on Tuesday? Thanks, Shaun ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Training page
On 4 May 2010 18:17, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi Sense, I believe that you are the person that I should talk to to get a web page up on the site for the training course I'm organising. I have the content for the page, but it will need to be laid out, and I am working with a graphic designer to create a promotional pamphlet to go with the course too. What information do you need from me? Is there a way I can create a page and submit it to you for moderation, or should I just submit the page text sections, and let you do the lay-out? What is the best way to proceed? Cheers, Dave. Hello, We don't have a page-submission-and-review system, unfortunately, so I think it would be best if you'd send me the content for the website. I would prefer you to write the promotional text, although there is a guy who offered his help as a content creator for the website -- you could ask for his help. What I want from you is: what you want on the website and the information that's needed to put that on the website. We could then discuss -- on this list or on IRC -- how we're going to present the information. What I would suggest is to give your sessions the same treatment as we gave the pre-conference: lets put the information on the conference's overview page. We could then link to it from other locations using anchors if necessary. The overview page in its current from can be found at http://guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010/schedConf/overview. As you can see we've called your slot 'Training'. A more descriptive name would be better, do you have any suggestions? Regards, -- Sense Hofstede [ˈsɛn.sə ˈɦɔf.steː.də] ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Training page
Hi Sense, Sense Hofstede wrote: What I want from you is: what you want on the website and the information that's needed to put that on the website. We could then discuss -- on this list or on IRC -- how we're going to present the information. What I would suggest is to give your sessions the same treatment as we gave the pre-conference: lets put the information on the conference's overview page. We could then link to it from other locations using anchors if necessary. I should gather logos to send you - for the GNOME Foundation and GUADEC you already have everything you need. I've attached a Neary Consulting logo which you can scale to required size. I'd suggest that it will be really useful to have a separate page, with all of the information related to the training, rather than have all of the text below on the conference overview page. We don't have a page-submission-and-review system, unfortunately, so I think it would be best if you'd send me the content for the website. Here goes: Title: GNOME Foundation (logo) GUADEC 2010 GNOME developer training July 26 - 27, 2010 The Hague, The Netherlands GUADEC (logo) Byline: Give your Linux developers wings (this is corny - any better ideas welcome, prefereably not infringing Red Bull's trademarks ;)) Pitch: The GNOME Developer Training sessions at GUADEC are designed to give experienced software developers the tools that they need to get the most out of developing free software in an open community. Covering common Linux development tools, the GNOME and FreeDesktop.org development platform, and the social dynamics of contributing to community projects, this course will put extra tools in your developer's toolbox. This two day course include a hands-on practical session, and an in-depth overview of the social aspect of community development, including how to get your work upstream and how to influence the direction of upstream projects. Conference attendance includes a full professional pass for GUADEC, the flagship annual conference of the GNOME project, giving you access to three days of presentations, BOFs and tutorials, for a value of €250. Pricing: 2 days training course + professional registration for GUADEC 2010 (value €250): €1500 Early bird price (for registrations before June 1st 2010): €1200 Includes delivery of printed training material related to the course, and meals and refreshments during training. To ensure the highest quality, space is strictly limited, we encourage you to register early to guarantee availability. You can register for the GUADEC training course at http://www.guadec.org Syllabus: The course is made up of four half-day modules, including: Developer tools and development environments: * Source control - git, svn, bzr * Using autotools * Standard GNOME build dependencies their purposes (pkgconfig, intltool, gtk-doc) * Cross-compilation environments (Scratchbox, OpenEmbedded) * Debugger (gdb, Nemiver) * Valgrind (including memcheck, Massif, kcachegrind, Callgrind) * Other developer tools: sar, sysprof, bootchart The GNOME platform: * glib and GObject * GTK+ and Clutter * Using Glade and GtkBuilder * DBus, DFeet, registering and calling DBus APIs * GConf * GStreamer * Telepathy * Language bindings - C++, Java, C#, Python, Vala A Hands-on Practical Workshop: * Set up a GNOME development environment * Write a complete GNOME application in Python * Integrate with the GNOME desktop Community development * Community communication forums (mailing lists, forums, IRC, Bugzilla, source control) * Effective community participation, community social norms * Project governance - how things get done * Getting changes upstream * Getting to maintainer - how to make friends and influence people * Building a vibrant community Training run by Neary Consulting (logo) on behalf of the GNOME Foundation The overview page in its current from can be found at http://guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010/schedConf/overview. As you can see we've called your slot 'Training'. A more descriptive name would be better, do you have any suggestions? Developer training perhaps? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org inline: neary_consulting.png___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Training page
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 06:39:48PM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: I'd suggest that it will be really useful to have a separate page, with all of the information related to the training, rather than have all of the text below on the conference overview page. FWIW, i do agree with this. The training sessions are more disassociated from the conference compared to the preconference i think.. Gr, Koen ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Terms and conditions for registration
Dave Neary wrote: Reinout van Schouwen wrote: I really believe we should avoid crappy quality shirts. Either we have good ones or we don't have them at all. The kind of shirts that you wear once and then throw away is a complete waste of precious source materials. I really believe that we should avoid expensive. Anything more than €10 per shirt (production cost, VAT included) is just too expensive (that corresponds to a sale price for the t-shirt of €20, given that t-shirts generally mark up over 100%). FWIW for the last few years at FOSDEM we have printed around 250 t-shirts, the no-VAT prices are ~2.70€ for the bare t-shirts (fruit of the loom, value weight), and ~0.70€ for printing (+ ~30€ for the initial frame). Last year we considered to go with better t-shirts (in both quality and ethics) but this is of course not manageable at such a price, and we wanted to keep offering t-shirts at 5€/10€ to foundation members and visitors. At Akademy two years ago there were very nice embroidered shirts, I don't know how much KDE paid for them but I know I would prefer we go for high quality t-shirt, despite the increased price. Cheers, Frederic ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
