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: GUADLAC - GNOME Users And Developers Latin American Conference

2008-07-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Miguel Angel, Miguel Angel López Hernández wrote: It is my pleasure to inform you all that first GUADLAC (GNOME Users And Developers Latin American Conference) will be held in Veracruz, MX in the 1st quarter of 2009 (almost sure in march), therefore respectfully request the support of the

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