Re: GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009

2008-07-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Replying to 2 mails in one. john palmieri wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Jonathan Blandford [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:10 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: I've been pushing the board to do the following: Shared:

Re: GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009

2008-07-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Slight correction to the numbers... Quim Gil wrote: GUADEC Cornerstone = aKademy Platinum = 25.000€ Gold is same in both = 15.000€ Silver is same in both = 5.000€ Silver is €7,500 for GUADEC and has been since last year, I believe. aKademy has also Bronze = 1.000€ Do the math and

Re: GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009

2008-07-16 Thread Mikael Hallendal
Dave Neary skrev: Hi, Silver for Guadec is at 5.000€. Cheers, Mikael Hallendal Hi, Slight correction to the numbers... Quim Gil wrote: GUADEC Cornerstone = aKademy Platinum = 25.000€ Gold is same in both = 15.000€ Silver is same in both = 5.000€ Silver is €7,500 for GUADEC and has

Re: GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009

2008-07-16 Thread Dave Neary
Mikael Hallendal wrote: Silver for Guadec is at 5.000€. Thanks for the correction... I guess my confusion stemmed from sponsorship levels being in dollars up until Villanova, and €5000 is $7500 roughly. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009

2008-07-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, One other thing I didn't say but am a little worried about... Dave Neary wrote: I'm pretty sure everyone's aware that the devil is now in the details, and there will be times when we are in conflict over some issues. I expect clearing up sponsorship and distribution of surplus will be

Re: GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009

2008-07-16 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2008/7/16 Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The local organisers are covering costs up to €250,000, about the same as our entire GUADEC budget for the last two years combined, and this coverse the site + 40% subsidy of sightseeing + invited journalists, VIPs and perhaps organisational staff (to be

Re: GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009

2008-07-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Alberto, Alberto Ruiz wrote: As a side note, the secretary of tourism and innovation was a teacher of computer science on the university, so we won't have too much problems to explain him what the culture and the values that we want to push into the event, we just have to make sure that

Re: GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009

2008-07-15 Thread Paul Cooper
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 11:57 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: The GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. announced that they will hold their yearly conferences, GUADEC and Akademy in 2009 in Gran Canaria. The conferences will be separate events, but co-located and hosted by the same organizers, the Cabildo

Re: GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009

2008-07-15 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Paul, Paul Cooper wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 07:05 -0400, john palmieri wrote: The idea is that they are two separate events with the exception of a room reserved for freedesktop.org and other crossover talks. Also keynotes should most likely be joint as well as the after parties.

Re: GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009

2008-07-15 Thread Quim Gil
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Paul Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John, On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 07:05 -0400, john palmieri wrote: The idea is that they are two separate events with the exception of a room reserved for freedesktop.org and other crossover talks. Also keynotes should most

Re: GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009

2008-07-15 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2008/7/15 Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Paul, To my knowledge, Akademy runs at a loss, or no better than break-even, while GUADEC has allowed the GNOME Foundation to propose hackfests, fund speakers travelling to conferences, pay for the Boston Summit, fund the GNOME Outreach Programme:

Re: GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009

2008-07-15 Thread john palmieri
The idea is that they are two separate events with the exception of a room reserved for freedesktop.org and other crossover talks. Also keynotes should most likely be joint as well as the after parties. Everything else should remain separate as to not drastically change the culture of each

Re: GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009

2008-07-15 Thread john palmieri
The one thing we have made clear to our Advisory Board is we do not want this to be an excuse for companies to invest less in either events. That would be disastrous. This is not a joint event. The GNOME Board and KDE eV agreed on this with the understanding that we are co-located, not one

Re: GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009

2008-07-15 Thread Quim Gil
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:41 PM, john palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The one thing we have made clear to our Advisory Board is we do not want this to be an excuse for companies to invest less in either events. That would be disastrous. Sure, but who talked about getting less corporate

Re: GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009

2008-07-15 Thread Jonathan Blandford
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:10 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: I've been pushing the board to do the following: Shared: * sponsorship * registration accommodation recommendations * local team * organising resource infrastructure costs * Some social events Co-ordinated/negotiated/agreed: *