Re: [guadec-list] Time for another meeting?

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 5:41 AM Ekaterina Gerasimova 
wrote:

> Hi, I would like us to have another meeting this week to get updates
> on statuses.
>
> I'd be most interested in updates about:
> - sponsorship
> - promotion/engagement/spreading the word
>
>
Neal, myself, and Alberto recently had a meeting on sponsorship.  The
fundraising was primarily about LAS and fundraising levels.  But we do have
a documentation on who all was approached for sponsorship for GUADEC.  Do
you just want a summary on sponsorship?

sri
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Re: [guadec-list] Proposal to meet this week

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 10:05 AM Nuritzi Sanchez 
wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 11:57 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova <
> kittykat3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I have a strong preference towards using Free software to conduct Free
>> software business so meet.jit.si would be ideal. We used it for the
>> previous call and it worked well.
>>
>
> Cool. I haven't used meet.jit.si in a while now but when I was using it
> before, we had a lot of trouble when more than a few people were joining
> the calls, which is why we looked for alternatives. Totally happy to use it
> though!
>

I have a ticket in to see if we can enable nextcloud talk since we already
have an instance of nextcloud.  That will not only enable us to do
meetings, but also allow people to attend hackfests remotely.

Won't join this one, I have my own conference to figure out. :-)

sri

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Re: [guadec-list] conference software

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Hola Tobi!

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 2:54 AM Tobias Mueller <mue...@cryptobitch.de>
wrote:

> Hi.
>
> On Fri, 2017-10-20 at 01:26 +, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> > LAS is looking to move to a new conference software.  We would like to
> > move to OSEM (http://osem.io/).  I realize there was some talk about
> > using whatever FOSDEM is using, but honestly that software is 8 years
> > old and nobody supports it.
> What software are you talking about?
>

I believe it was called pentabarf.  Github says it hasn't been touched in a
long awhile.

Frab? I don't have the impression that it's neither unmaintained nor not
> supported. In fact, it sets standards when it comes to an open format
> for the conference's schedules.
> https://github.com/frab/frab


Nope, is that what fosdem is using?


>
> From what I can see, it's used very extensively by important European
> conferences (FOSDEM, FrOSCon, CCCongress, PrivacyWeek, ...).
>
> >   There is 5-6 dedicated people for OSEM.
> But is anybody actually using it? Besides the people themselves for
> openSuSE Conference.
>

I believe small conferences like SeaGL is using it, and large conferences
like AllThingsOpen is using it.  There are probably some other ones.


> >   So, I'm hoping to make an executive decision and move to OSEM.
> What's your reasoning so far?
>
>
Mostly because I have to spin up a website for LAS very quickly and start
working on call for papers and a number of other things.  I have a short
deadlines since I am driving fundraising for htis conference.  If we are
going to make fundraising goal for a spring conference (eg May) I don't
have a lot of time.  The website is the current focal point.

That said, I don't want to use something and then have GUADEC something
else.  It makes no sense to have two conferences using different software
so I want to push to have both GUADEC and LAS/GINA use the same software.
The other issue is that whatever we pick we are our on our own, from what I
understand GNOME sysadmins won't support any other conference software
other than whatever we used this year.  I wasn't happy with the experience
and I don't believe it is a scalable process.  OSEM is attractive as that I
will have support from a team and considering that we are co-locating two
conferences in the same location there is a slight bit of complexity.  If I
have to find hosting outside the GNOME infra, at least let me get it with
someone who is working to help me and is eager to help.  But if both
conferences use OSEM then perhaps we can convince sysadmin to host it on
our infra.

Lastly, we also have this -
https://github.com/openSUSE/travel-support-program, which will probably
help the travel committee when it comes to dealing with travel subsidies.
If all of this comes integrated then we save a lot of time for everyone.

In any case, I'm not excited by conference software, I'm interested in the
shortest time to getting something spun up and get things moving and having
the most support.  The good thing is that LAS will test any software before
GUADEC and smooth things over for the next team.

> Secondly, GNOME.Asia has already used OSEM for the past couple of
> > years.
> wait, what?  This is plain wrong.
>

It was true at some point, the OSEM website has GNOME logo as someone using
their software.

So, can we make a decision? :)

sri


> Cheers,
>   Tobi
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[guadec-list] conference software

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

LAS is looking to move to a new conference software.  We would like to move
to OSEM (http://osem.io/).  I realize there was some talk about using
whatever FOSDEM is using, but honestly that software is 8 years old and
nobody supports it.  There is 5-6 dedicated people for OSEM.  So, I'm
hoping to make an executive decision and move to OSEM.  Even better, LAS
will be the first GNOME conference next year and so we will be the first to
move to the platform.  Secondly, GNOME.Asia has already used OSEM for the
past couple of years.

Your mission if you choose to accept is to not respond if you agree with
the decision, or if you have questions then please respond or if you object
say so and explain why.  Once I have consensus, I will put a request for
getting OSEM setup on our infrastructure.

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[guadec-list] HIG seminar

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

I'm wondering about providing a seminar or design review?  Maybe allow free
software/open source developers to bring their applications for a gratis or
for money review and a general explanation of how to design an app
optimized for the GNOME desktop.

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Re: [guadec-list] Intel contact - Sabrina Shureih

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016, 2:48 PM Tobias Mueller  wrote:

> hi.
>
> She told me, amongst other things, that they "will not be able to
> sponsor GUADEC at this time as we have had a change in project
> priorities." :-/
>
> Do you think it's worth prodding still?
>

There probably waswas,  Intel is going through a lot Flux.  That's too bad
they changed their minds.

Sri


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>   Tobi
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Re: [guadec-list] Training workshops at GUADEC

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 2:14 AM Benjamin Berg 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been pondering the idea of having a couple of training workshops
> on the day before GUADEC starts (i.e. on Thursday). There should be
> workshops targeted at both newcomers (more likely students) and more
> experienced developers/professionals. These workshops should be free
> for students and foundation members. Other attendees would need to pay
> which--depending on interest--might create revenue stream for GUADEC.
>
>
So for LAS GNOME, the GNOME conference I'm working on in September we are
thinking of doing the same thing.  The difference is that our workshops
will be geared towards showing how to convert your app to using xdg-app.

I would encourage you to also look into that kind of workshop so that we
can encourage developers to write xdg-app'd applications.

The engagement team is working on doing some infographic on how GNOME
development works because that seems like a big part of the confusion when
starting working on GNOME.  So make sure that when you do workshops that we
have good visuals.

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Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC 2016: length and schedule

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 6:56 AM Allan Day  wrote:

>
>
> ...
> > Alexandre already mentioned Elementary and Cinnamon. Do people agree
> > that we would like to invite representatives from other desktop
> > environments that use GNOME technology to GUADEC? Anyone up to
> > contacting them?
>
> I think we have invited some of those people in the past, actually.
> Funding for travel has been a limiting factor, if memory serves me
> correctly.
>
>

I don't think our relationship with Cinnamon has been that great, so we
will need to be a bit cautious.  Elementary is still a fairly fledgling
company, and they might opt to go with West Coast Summit (or whatever I end
up calling it) since it is closer for them.  We had quite a few of them
attend this year.  So if they go, they'll have to pick one of them and if
they pick Europe it will be lot less of them.

There are other desktops built on GTK+ tech, we should consider that new
one which I can't recall who have a desktop based on GNOME, there is also a
QT project based on OSTree that might be worth reaching out to.

Finally, you also need to invite people who are interested in runtime and
the like.  That is a killer feature, and if you can find people who have
played with it and built something with it, that would also be worth having.

So, there are opportunities, we might need to pre-seed them and encourage
something quite a bit beforehand.

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Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC 2016: length and schedule

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:20 AM David King  wrote:

> Hi
>
> On 2015-11-05 19:03, Allan Day  wrote:
> >Until 2014, GUADEC had 4 core days. Then, this year, we switched to 3
> >days. This was a bit of a challenge for the schedule: we just managed
> >to squeeze everything in, but only just.
> >
> >If we want to go down to two core days, we'll probably have to
> >radically rethink the schedule. Possibilities might involve cutting
> >the lightning talks, and/or cutting the length of the talks. It seems
> >like a good idea to talk about this early on.
>
> I have also been on the papers committee for the last couple of years.
> Given the general quality and freshness of talk proposals received, I
> can see little problem with dropping to only 2 core days. Reducing the
> length of time allocated to each talk would be my preference, if it is
> desirable to keep the same number of talks on the schedule.
>

I think this is really the sign of the times and a form of stagnation as
occurred.  We can probably get a lot more interesting papers if we started
reaching out to other projects that are using our software and platform.
Giving other perspectives will drive more conversation and ideas for
collaboration.

Since I am also working on a conference, I'm happy to share notes on what
I'm doing in contrast with GUADEC.

sri




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Re: [guadec-list] [General Info] Plan for GUADEC 2015 videos

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

This excellent news!! BTW probably want to add engagement-list rather than
marketing. ;)

Sri

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015, 10:26 AM Bastian Ilso hougaard.jun...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Hi,


 Andreas Nillson is almost done processing the GUADEC 2015 videos. They
 will first and foremost be uploaded to http://videos.guadec.org/ where
 they are publicly accessible.

 Furthermore I plan to upload the videos to GNOME's official Youtube
 channel, GNOMEDesktop[0]. I plan to:
 - Upload the 31 talks publicly but without spamming the 4000 subscribers
 we have ( by turning off subscriber notifications). The talks will be
 collected in a playlist called 'GUADEC 2015', accessible from the channel.
 - Additionally upload GUADEC 2015's closing montage and advertize the
 GUADEC 2015 playlist in the montage to let subscribers know of that the
 talks from GUADEC 2015 are now available at http://videos.guadec.org/ and
 in the GNOMEDesktop's GUADEC 2015 playlist.


 I see we have an old separate GUADEC Youtube channel[0] made from a
 separate Youtube account that I do not have access to. However, IMO it is
 more convenient from engagement POV that we can promote just a single
 youtube channel (GNOMEDesktop) and we have plenty of opportunity to keep
 the videos categorized in GNOMEDesktop via Playlists and by controlling
 what content gets featured. Also, GNOMEDesktop supports uploading videos up
 to 11 hours long and at the moment I don't know if the GUADEC channel does.

 What do you think? If you have concerns, feel free to express them. If
 there are no major concerns I think we can probably expect to have the
 videos uploaded within a week.


 -Bastian

 [0]: https://www.youtube.com/user/GNOMEDesktop
 [1]: https://www.youtube.com/user/GUADEC
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[guadec-list] GUADEC preparation..

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Does everybody have all the materials ready to bring to GUADEC?  (e.g.
t-shirts, stickers, etc)

I will be bringing a quantity of t-shirts, and stickers that have been
given to me.

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Re: [guadec-list] What's in it for me?

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Hi Michael!

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 2:58 AM,  michael.isb...@posteo.de wrote:
 Hi,

 Maybe I'm in the wrong place but I'm a GNOME desktop user and eventually I
 want to develop an application in the GNOME/GTK+ environment.
 Would attending GUADEC benefit me in any way, even if I'm just a plain user?
 Apart from meeting very nice people.

 Thanks in advance for your reply.


This is such a great question, thank you for posting it on the mailing
list.  I think attending GUADEC is one of the best ways to familiarize
yourself with the platform, but also be able to meet the maintainers
and get to know them at a personal level.  This then gets reflected in
bug reports that you might file later.  This is also your opportunity
to tell platform developers your needs as a developer.  For instance,
perhaps there is a gap that is missing in one of the libraries.  If
you can formulate a good argument for inclusion they could work with
you on creating that feature.  Resources are tight, so it's important
that you are able to communicate that such a feature will improve the
platform.   But that is a discussion best done in person than say over
a bug report or on a mailing list.

I hope that you will consider attending!

Warm regards,
sri

 Kind regards,

 Michael Isberg
 Sweden

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[guadec-list] another possible regional speaker

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indrek_Tarand

He is part of the EU Parliament and is a pro-FOSS person.  Well, at
last check.  If you're interested in doign a follow up let me know.
Here is some other links for you to check:

http://www.epfsug.eu/list-members-or-supporters-and-their-statements

Indrek Tarand, MEP: As a patron of EPFSUG, I protect EP members, staff
and assistants who use and work with free software according to the
statutes, and line with the rules and regulations of each members'
contract with regards to the institutions providing for the
information infrastructure in the Parliament.


http://oo.kakupesa.net/2011/03/31/talking-in-brussels/

Incidently, Linus's father is also in the EU parliament (see the link
on epfsug.eu) and might also be another possible candidate.  I don't
know how good of a public speaker he is.  But Indrek has given talks.

Anyways, he is either in Brussels or he is in Estonia, which I hope
counts as regional for you all.

sri
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[guadec-list] keynote speaker..

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Happy New Year!

I've joined the list, as I'm mainly interested in keynote speakers. I
would really like to help find and get quality speakers.  I have one
suggestion that I think would be really good.  Her name is Genevieve
Bell, she is an Intel Fellow and is the Director of User Experience.
She spoke at the equivalent of a Northwest version of  SXSW.  She
works here in Hillsboro, and with your permission I would like to
approach her as a possible candidate.  Here is some background
reading:

http://techfestnw.com/lineup/genevieve-bell/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/technology/intels-sharp-eyed-social-scientist.html
http://delight.us/human-digital-world/

I think she has some amazing qualities and I think I can make a good
sell given Intel's involvement with the GNOME project.  Let me know if
you feel that this would be a good candidate.  I would like to start
early.  If you reject, I will think of someone else.

As luck would have it, she works in the same campus as I do and it
should not be hard to send her a note and meet for coffee and talk
about GNOME, its mission, GUADEC, and anything else you might want me
to bring up.

sri
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Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC 2007 - POS

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Does that mean that the conference is no longer constrained to be in 
Europe? :)

sri

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 09:41:06PM +0200, Quim Gil wrote:
 Currently the home says GUADEC (pronounced GWAH-DEC) is an acronym
 for the GNOME Users' And Developers' European Conference. 
 
 In fact last year we decided to get rid of the acronym, in the best
 GNOME style. Now GUADEC means The GNOME Conference.
 
 This is the background of that slogan.  :)
 
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Re: [guadec-list] Press Team meeting minutes..

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

They ddid not give me a time schedule.  I'll ping them and find out.

sri

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 05:33:42PM +0200, Javier Vazquez wrote:
 El jue, 22-06-2006 a las 14:49 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna escribió:
  I followed up on the international press and OSDL will be helping me out 
  international press contacts.  So I think I can cover international 
  press stuff.. 
 
  OK, that's nice. How are they are going to do it? Will the send our
 press release to their international press contacts? Do you know when?
 
 thanks!,
 javivázquez
 

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Re: [guadec-list] Press Team meeting minutes..

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Let me see what I can do.  I'll see if I can set up some cooperative between
OSDL and GNOME Foundation for this kind of thing.

OSDL uses an agent that finds people interested in interviewing and then
works as a go-between.  It might be a good idea to not only do this with
OSDL but probably with other people involved in the linux deskop.

sri

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 09:53:57AM +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
 
  I followed up on the international press and OSDL will be helping me out
  international press contacts.  So I think I can cover international
  press stuff..
 
 It'd be great if you could get some kind of ongoing cooperation with OSDL
 for press releases, and then document how that works on the Wiki. At the
 moment we are dependent on specific personal contacts at Novell, and they
 (quite fairly) only give us about 2 press releases per year because it's
 not cheap to release one.
 
 Thanks for all the hard work.
 
  On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 10:55:26PM -0700, Sri Ramkrishna wrote:
  * Talked about the current press releases.  Javi has sent them out to
  Spanish press, and Thomas has sent the German version out.  So all
  that's left is the international press.  We have no contacts for the
  international press, don't know how to send that out.  Sri will talk to
  OSDL about international press release and see if he can use OSDL for
  this.
 
 
 
 Murray Cumming
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 www.murrayc.com
 www.openismus.com

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[guadec-list] More corrections on english press release..

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

I've added more corrections, however, can someone add the accents over the 'e'
in the right place and send it back?  I'm not quite sure how to do it :/

sri

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[guadec-list] broken link on press release.

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

This link:

http://guadec.org/Guadec2006/pressRoom

has no content.  Can we have someone add content to this area?  Since
I didn't write the initial press release, nor this area, I don't know what
the purpose is.  I'm assuming it will contain something about GUADEC and
GNOME...

sri

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Re: [guadec-list] request from Mongolia

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Doh!  Mention my name, I believe he knows who I am. :-)  We were booth
neighbors twice in a row at OSCON.

sri

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 09:37:33AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 I contacted Nat Torkington at O'Reilly (who put me in touch with an
 editor at NoStarch) and I asked for a copy - I don't have an answer yet,
 but we'll see what happens.
 
 Cheers,
 Dave.
 
 Quim Gil wrote:
  Josette from O'Reilly will be selling books in the 0. Vestíbul UPC, at a
  GUADEC price. I only know she requested the schedule to help her
  deciding the selection of books to bring. 
  
  I have forwarded her your request, just in case.
   
  
  El dt 20 de 06 del 2006 a les 16:52 +0200, en/na Juanjo Marin va
  escriure:
  Dulmandakh,
 
  O'Reilly (that distributes Non Starch books) is one of our media 
  partners, so maybe they sell some of their books on the GUADEC. Anybody 
  knows more about O'Reilly participation on the GUADEC ?
 
  cheers,
 
  -- Juanjo Marín
 
 
  DULMANDAKH Sukhbaatar escribió:
  Hi all.
 
  I'm from Mongolia and will participate in GUADEC2006. I wanted to ask
  you to buy for me The Debian System book and bring it to GUADEC. On
  http://www.bookpool.com it costs $28.50. But it can be second hand and
  cheaper. I'm asking that because I can't afford for Amazone and
  shipping price to Mongolia. I'll refund or give money back at GUADEC.
  It would be very appreciate.
 
  Please contact me befora buying the book becouse maybe someone already
  bought it for me at that time.
 
  Best regards
  Dulmandakh
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Re: [guadec-list] Press Release revision 4 (in rtf format)

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

I will add you since you volunteered. :)

sri

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 08:35:30AM +0200, Josep Puigdemont wrote:
 El dt 20 de 06 del 2006 a les 00:21 +0200, en/na Juanjo Marin va
 escriure:
  Hi Sri,
  
  I think we should include Thomas in contact press section:
 
 Again, if you think it would be good, we should probably add a contact
 for the Catalan press. I offered myself, although Quim is probably the
 best fit.
 
  
  For German journalists:
  Thomas Keup, GNOME Deutschland e. V.
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Mobile +49-171-4 18 00 84
  
  by the way, spanish journalists should be Spanish journalists
  
  cheers,
  
  -- Juanjo Marín
 
 

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Re: [guadec-list] final version ofguadec press release.

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Thanks for your edits, I will correct adn send out later.  Much appreciate
the feedback! :)

sri

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:18:29AM +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
  Okay, this is it.  Unless something looks really off, the let
  me know.  Otherwise, let's get this baby out.
 
 It's quite professional now, but I think it needs these small changes to
 really make the grade:
 
 - Opening keynote will be presented by Jeff Waugh
 + The opening keynote will be presented by Jeff Waugh
 
 - Other speakers include Jim Gettys, Vice President of Engineering of the
 One Laptop Per Child  who will be presenting OLPC, a community effort to
 give children a chance to learn using specially designed laptops, titled 
 Challenges and Opportunities of the $100 laptop (can we rewrite this
 para).
 + Other speakers include Jim Gettys, Vice President of Engineering of the
 One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC), whose Challenges and Opportunities
 of the $100 laptop presentation will describe this community effort to
 support childrens' education by providing specially designed laptops.
 
 - Simon Philipps
 + Simon Phipps
 (We must get this right)
 
 - Sebastian Bacher and Daniel Holbach at Canonical, will talk
 + Sebastian Bacher and Daniel Holbach at Canonical will talk
 
 - More than 30 GNOME related software projects will be represented ranging
 + More than 30 GNOME related software projects will be represented, ranging
 
 - F-Spot for photo managing software, Gossip for instant messaging client,
 Beagle for desktop search, and Ekiga – a videoconferencing and VOIP
 software.
 + F-Spot for photo managing, Gossip for instant messaging, Beagle for
 desktop search, and Ekiga – a videoconferencing and VOIP client.
 
 - The first GUADEC which was started in Paris in June 2000 is the
 gathering of GNOME developers from around the world.
 + GUADEC, which first took place in Paris in June 2000, is a gathering of
 GNOME developers from around the world.
 
 - GNOME development is sponsored by many companies.  Some of them are:
 + GNOME development is sponsored by many companies.  These include:
 
 - Sun Microsystems (sun.com/software/opensource/), a significant
 participant and contributor to industry-changing open source projects
 including;
 + Sun Microsystems (sun.com/software/opensource/), a significant
 participant and contributor to industry-changing open source projects;
 
 Doing this on the wiki in future might make this easier. Many thanks, Sri.
 
 Murray Cumming
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 www.murrayc.com
 www.openismus.com

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Re: [guadec-list] **** X-spasm **** RE: More corrections on english press release..

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

No, I read your suggestions, but my spam filter cut it.  Your stuff
will go in :-)  I went through it this morning and I was appalled at how 
many personal messages I lost :(

sri

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 10:39:39AM +0200, Juanjo Marín wrote:
 
 I feel like nobody reads my corrections/suggestions
 :-(
 
 I'd taken for granted that my sugestion about gnuLiNEX
 is not accepted (Free Software instead of Open Source
 is the most important), but [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a mistake.  
 
 cheers,
 
-- Juanjo Marín
 
 
  --- Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
 
  I've added more corrections, however, can someone
  add the accents over the 'e'
  in the right place and send it back?  I'm not quite
  sure how to do it :/
  
  sri
  
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[guadec-list] Press Release revision 4 (in rtf format)

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Here is version 4.  I'll go up to revision 5 before I call it good.  My
editor has one more look at it before we decide it should be okay.  I
thought I would give one more work in progress.  I have further removed
paragraphs making it shorter in order to hold interest.

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[guadec-list] OLPC press release.

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Here is the first draft of the OLPC press release.  I had to wait for the 
mailing lists to come back online to resend.  *sigh*

sri
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One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to research 
and develop a $100 laptop so that every child in the world will have the 
ability to explore, experiment and express themselves.  The project initially 
announced by Nicholas Negroponte, director of MIT Media Laboratory at the World 
Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland in 2005, will soon be starting major 
deployments.  Deployments of 5-10 million laptops are expected world-wide in 
2007 and several times that number in 2008. 

Jim Gettys, Vice President of Software Engineering will be speaking at GUADEC, 
on the OLPC project and it's subsequent deployment throughout the world and 
what others can do to help out in the effort.  Jim Gettys in addition to his 
position on the OLPC board is known as of the principle authors of the X Window 
System, the windowing system used today by all flavours of Unix(tm) and 
GNU/Linux.

GUADEC is the premier conference for the GNOME desktop held in Europe every 
year.  Users, developers, and companies interested in collaborating and 
developing for GNOME will gather to educate each other on new technologies 
they've developed and old ones that could be improved.  Join us in Vilanova i 
la Geltrú, Spain and take part in the excitement and energy of GUADEC from 23rd 
- 30th of June and learn about OLPC and GNOME.



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Re: [guadec-list] Press team

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

So I think you and the current members of the press team need to
have a 30 minute discussion and get a brain dump.  Then we can come
up with some good stuff.  What you've got here I really good.

Also can you give me access to the wiki?  My current login doesn't seem 
to allow me to edit pages.  I want to add a press team page there for
organizational purposes.

Following are my comments..


On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 08:21:16AM +0200, Quim Gil wrote:
 Two important things:
 
 - Currently we have 293 participants registered and we aim to have 500.
 We have less than 4 weeks to reach that number, and the press work plays
 an important role.

Agreed.  We need to generate buzz.  I think we can 

a) start having people mentioning it in their blogs, build up technorati
   and other blog engines.

b) we want to particularly generate it in Europe since it'll be a lot
   easier to get to.

 - About international press, I don't think we will get many journalists
 from abroad but a) we can explicitely invite those we would want to come
 and visit us (i.e. a European correspondant of Wired) and b) we can keep
 them informed during the GUADEC days anyway, so they publish stuff.

Excellent idea.  We can put that down in the wiki and organize someone to
make that contact.

 Also, international press have correspondants in Barcelona, i we build a
 sexy story they might pic the car and come to Vilanova one Core day to
 see what's going on.

Right, we need to give the impression that this conference will have 
worldwide impact.  That should perk things up.

 We also need to build news stories for them, thinking from their
 perspective. Jim Gettys and OLPC is one news story. Simon Phipps
 explaining how big is the Asian move to free software can be a news
 story. Federico GNOME co-founder thinking of to make GNOME faster than
 other popular OSs can be a news story. 

I wonder if we should start doing meetings regularly to get this
accomplished.

 I believe there are interesting news stories behind most of our
 sponsors, and they will help us making them known. Waldo Bastian might
 have a story on why Intel is so interested in free software. There might

Well, if you read Waldo's interview on GNOME Journal, it's sort of
thinly veiled as to why Intel is interested in desktops. :-)  However,
Waldo and I can talk about that.  I have a fairly good idea why.

 We need to generate a list of people journalists can
 interview (pointing to them who has a potential interesting interview)
 and help them contacting these people and arranging an interview, either
 life at Vilanova or by phone...

Yep.  In plan.

 I mean, no wonder if we go produce the same type of press release saying
 that the GNOME community will meet in Vilanova blah blah and then we
 don't get any relevant coverage out of the usual notes in the usual
 suspects media.

I agree, we need to produce something interesting that says we are meeting 
and what happens affects the world.  That's the kind of marketing you want.

sri

 
 
 El ds 27 de 05 del 2006 a les 19:02 -0700, en/na Sri Ramkrishna va
 escriure:
 
  Alright, sounds good.  I'll come up with some kind of task list with
  owners soon.
 
 
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Re: [guadec-list] Press team

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 11:50:03AM +0200, Javier Vazquez wrote:
 Hi,
 
 El mié, 24-05-2006 a las 13:42 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna escribió:
  On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 06:52:05PM +0200, Javier Vazquez wrote:
 [...]
   * Someone to be a Quim for the press team :), I mean a coordinator ;)
   
   [...]
  I have some knowledge of being a coordinator since I've been doing a lot of 
  that 
  work, but I don't mind trying to write a press release for each day if 
  someone
  will translate appropriately in Catalan/Spanish.
 
  As Sri seems to be the only volunteer, I guess he is the coordinator of
 the press team for GUADEC ;)

Great... :P  Me and my big mouth. 

  I would suggest you can review or redefine the task list, match each
 task to someone,... or whatever you consider according to your
 experience :)

OK..  It's not too late for someone to step up and do this.  Leadership skills 
are
important when finding a job! ;-)

  If Fernando and David can manage the press, I could write the Press Kit
 (Spanish) and translate the press releases (at least 1 to announce the
 conference plus 3 for each day) to Spanish also.

Sounds good.  We should probably set up some contacts for the press to know who 
to
approach for press contacts.

  The point I am worried about is contacting Spanish press and getting
 our press releases published. Maybe we have a couple of contacts through
 some gnomero, but it's important to know this as soon as posible, don't
 you think so?

Well, I guess the step then is to figure out press contacts.

Why not ask Fluendo since they are a Barcelona based company and
ask where they would go for press?  They must have some sort of
director of communications or something.  Hows that for a start?

Secondly, I wonder if the government has a list of press contacts.  What is
the equivalent of the Chamber of Commerce for those who know how to translate
that into a spanish equivalent...

I guess that would be a start.

sri

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Re: [guadec-list] Press team

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 06:58:32PM +0200, Andy Wingo wrote:
 1) Fluendo doesn't have so many contacts, it just has Christian and his
 voluminous blogging power

That figures.  OK.  I'll do some research and figure out where to go.

 2) Are you aware there was a press conference in Vilanova on Wednesday?

Nope.. can't say that I have.  But I'll be paying more attention now. :-)  Do 
you have
a link or something?

sri

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Re: [guadec-list] Re: Urgent : Printed Program Status

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Great stuff, Sara. :)

sri

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:16:14AM +0330, Sara Khalatbari wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I had not reported what's going on lately  that may have caused you to get
 worried on the printed program status.
 
 Here's the list that we agreed on:
 
 Table of content
 Sponsor's  list  ads
 A few words from the conference coordinator
 The schedule including: Warm up Weekend (GUADEC-ES and GUADEC-CA) , Core,
 After Hours, Sessions
 GUADEC Party! :
 Keynoters (Abstract, Biography and Interview )
 Summaries/abstracts of the talks + Bio/photo of speakers
 List of professional participants
 Basic list of addresses and phone numbers
 A brief and basic English - Catalan - Spanish dictionary
 Sudoku
 
 We have it all ready except:
 - List of professional participants
 - Basic list of addresses and phone numbers
 - A few words from the conference coordinator
 - Keynoters (Abstract, Biography and Interview )
 
 
 Quim has sent a post here http://guadec.org/node/412  we are waiting to
 have the complete list of professional participants
 
 I will send the 'Basic list of addresses and phone numbers' by tomorrow.
 
 Quim will give us the foreword by May 23rd (tomorrow)
 
 I have sent a mail to the keynoters 3 weeks ago, defining everything 
 asking them to fill out the information (Abstract, Biography and Interview)
  give me the answer by May 23rd. I hope they do it tomorrow. But if the
 didn't I will gather up some short words/links myself.
 
 Behnam is working on the page's design. he will decide himself if he needs
 help.
 
 I will now forward all the English material to Shaun for edition.
 
 
 Sara

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Re: [Fwd: Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC T-Shirts]

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

I agree here.  (sorry, joined late. :-)  The ones I like the best is
where the logos unobtrusive.  Unless you somehow identify with the
logo you're going to be concious about what's on your shirt (well
me anyways)  This is someoen who frequently gets vendor t-shirts
and end up not wearing them because it makes me stand out. :-)  Unless
I'm wearing my employer's logo that seems okay (unless the design
sucks)

sri

On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 11:15:30AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 Murray Cumming wrote:
  Don't you think it's enough to get a GNOME branded GUADEC t-shirt?
  
  I'd like the foot to be more visible everywhere. Your eyes will find the
  little logos if you know to look for it, but you'll never remember the
  logo if you don't see it as the most obvious thing.
 
 I really think it's fine as it is, and we have better things to be
 spending time on.
 
 Plus, over-branded t-shirts are ugly. One of my favourite branded
 t-shirts has a small logo on the front around the breast pocket, and a
 slogan on the back (unbranded).
 
 Cheers,
 Dave.
 
 -- 
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[guadec-list] Press team

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Greetings,

So I think we need to start talking about the press team and I know this 
is something that I am interested in helping out with.  I'd like to
start with establishing goals and asking who would like to participate.

sri

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