Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs
I have turned to the local linux users group for ideas. If I don't get an answer by monday I will take you up on the LWE guy. sri On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 23:35 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: On 7/20/05, Sri Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, behind on my mail. I'd like some help. But I can probably try to find someone here so that we can save money on shipping. We can always go back to the guy who did them for LWE if need be; he can work on pretty short notice. But yeah, shipping would be higher. Luis On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 19:02 +0200, Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation wrote: Sri, On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 14:51 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I am. But I've decided to give out livecds from the booth instead. It would be niec to start off with maybe 500 Live CDs and then if we want more I can go and buy some more and press them. Have you sourced the first 500 CDs or do you need help with that? tim -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs
Sri, On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 14:51 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I am. But I've decided to give out livecds from the booth instead. It would be niec to start off with maybe 500 Live CDs and then if we want more I can go and buy some more and press them. Have you sourced the first 500 CDs or do you need help with that? tim -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs
On 7/20/05, Sri Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, behind on my mail. I'd like some help. But I can probably try to find someone here so that we can save money on shipping. We can always go back to the guy who did them for LWE if need be; he can work on pretty short notice. But yeah, shipping would be higher. Luis On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 19:02 +0200, Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation wrote: Sri, On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 14:51 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I am. But I've decided to give out livecds from the booth instead. It would be niec to start off with maybe 500 Live CDs and then if we want more I can go and buy some more and press them. Have you sourced the first 500 CDs or do you need help with that? tim -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs
I am. But I've decided to give out livecds from the booth instead. It would be niec to start off with maybe 500 Live CDs and then if we want more I can go and buy some more and press them. sri On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:50:48AM -0400, Tim Ney wrote: Hello Sri, Are you still planning to give out LiveCDs at OSCON? tim On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 11:50 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Apparently, OSCON is having some presence. Although we have no booth or anything. I'd like to organize something at OSCON though for GNOME. I know Edd and others will be around so it will be nice to do something. I can do some distribution there. I'll have to check to see if work will send me. So far I've never gotten a 'no'. If you could send me some CD's I'd like to approach govt types so that they can use it and test it out. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Doing useful work during the board meeting? :-) /runs sri On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 08:44:06AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: I'll do it, sometime this evening (probably during the board meeting). Dave. Luis Villa a crit : whoohoo. so who is volunteering to get that into the wiki? :) Luis On 5/3/05, Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh man, thats just capital. Thanks! sri On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:41:24AM -1200, Glynn Foster wrote: Heya, There was some discussion of this last year :) Yeah, I remembered we had it, but wasn't sure where it went. Did we get a wiki page up? My thinking is that we could have a general list of conferences that happen every year, and then a list (either same place or separate) listing what the date of the next known one is, whether or not we've contacted the organizer, what speakers we have there, etc., etc. Okay, found a mail that might help that was in my board-list archives. Here's a cut and paste of the mail from Malcolm - Glynn === This involves a number of steps and I have made a start on a couple of these: (1) Knowing which conferences are coming up in each area of the world and when their paper submission dates are. - attached to this mail is the start of such a list (ordered by conference date. I need to make a similar list ordered by submission date). Naturally, as you can see, a number of submission dates have already passed by. In such cases, I have listed if there are any GNOME related talks being given. - I have concentrated on desktop-, consumer- and developer-related conferences. There are other conferences at which GNOME talks have been given (e.g. Daniel Veillard's presentation at XML Europe last year) but which are more of a niche market and which require particular speakers to give effective talks. - This list is far from complete. Can people send me any other conferences they know about (including submission deadlines and/or a website so I can scrounge out the info and monitor things). In particular, I have nothing for any South American countries and nothing for Spain, although both areas had conferences last year, if I recall correctly. I suspect there are a couple of British (particularly London-based) conferences that I have missed. I am also not going to be surprised if I have missed a number of significant European and North American summer conferences. - In 2004, we need to also be looking at 2005 conferences. Submission deadlines are months in advance of the conference, so by around mid-2004 we (the entire GNOME community) are going to have to have got our act together for conferences in the first couple of months of 2005. (2) Contacting GNOME volunteers and user groups in the appropriate areas to see if they can help out with demonstration stands and giving talks, etc. (3) Preparing a kit to help kickstart such demonstrations. - There have been posts to various mailing lists over the past few years about what people have learnt when helping out at a GNOME stand at conferences. I am trying to track down all of those. - We need to have something like a HOWTO available for people who want to do this kind of stuff. Possible also a HOWTO for somebody wanting to give a talk about GNOME to the general population. Sometimes it is just a matter of giving people ideas of what they can talk about and convincing them that it is not such a big job, since the people they are talking to may know very little about GNOME. (4) Complete this list. Currently it only contains three significant points. There are probably more. See attached - 2004 == January: 12 - 17: linux.conf.au - http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ (or http://linux.conf.au/) - Adelaide, Australia - much GNOME (and peripherally related) involvement: James Henstridge, Malcolm Tredinnick, Jeff Waugh, Havoc Pennington, Keith Packard, Glynn Foster spread between the main conference and a couple of the preceding mini-conferences. 20 - 23: LinuxWorld Conference Expo - New York, USA February: 3 - 5: Linux Solutions - Paris, France - http://www.solutionslinux.fr/en/index.php - costs for exhibition space. 9 - 12: O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference - San Diego, USA - http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etech/ - too late for this year. Keep in mind for 2005 conference. 11 - 13: Linux Asia - New Delhi, India -
Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs
On Tue, 3 May 2005 18:33:57 -0400 Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/3/05, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I've tried something radically different, see what you all think: http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam/AnnualEvents Have to run to class, bye- Make sure to have a poke at the pages linked to in the table. Luis Looking at my own try, I think tables just don't work in the wiki when there's too much information to list. Linking a lot of small pages is also sub-optimal. My idea (sort of use-cases) about the conference table was 1.) Wow! Look at all the activity worldwide for GNOME! 2.) What's the next conference we got to care about? Maybe we could just write a single flat page? Either == Continent == === Month === Conference * Details (my favorite) or == Month == === Continent === Conference * Details This sort of style seems to work fine for the GNOME deployments page. Any other suggestions, opinions? Cheers, Claus -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Hi Claus, Claus Schwarm a écrit : Maybe we could just write a single flat page? Either == Continent == === Month === Conference * Details Sounds good. Make sure to add a [[TableOfContents]] at the top for easy linking. Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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On Wed, 04 May 2005 19:02:00 +0200 Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds good. Make sure to add a [[TableOfContents]] at the top for easy linking. OK, I'll convert the list from Glynn Foster to this format, then. Cheers, Claus -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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I'm going to put Penguincon as a future conference to keep track of. sri On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 09:28:56AM -0400, Luis Villa wrote: Hey, Sri, Tim, others- Are there conferences we're planning on having a presence at in the near future? Should we be planning to print out a batch of liveCDs to distribute/sell at them? Luis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs
On 5/3/05, Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to put Penguincon as a future conference to keep track of. Where? It would be good to have a wiki page with a list of annual conferences, not tied to specific years, if that makes sense... Luis On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 09:28:56AM -0400, Luis Villa wrote: Hey, Sri, Tim, others- Are there conferences we're planning on having a presence at in the near future? Should we be planning to print out a batch of liveCDs to distribute/sell at them? Luis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:17:49PM -0400, Luis Villa wrote: On 5/3/05, Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to put Penguincon as a future conference to keep track of. Where? It would be good to have a wiki page with a list of annual conferences, not tied to specific years, if that makes sense... Good question, it's too late for 2005 obviously. I guess we need a flat list of conferences... sri -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Hi, On May 3, 2005, at 8:41 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:17:49PM -0400, Luis Villa wrote: On 5/3/05, Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to put Penguincon as a future conference to keep track of. Where? It would be good to have a wiki page with a list of annual conferences, not tied to specific years, if that makes sense... Good question, it's too late for 2005 obviously. I guess we need a flat list of conferences... There was some discussion of this last year :) There are about 10 of these I can think of that are annual events: GNOME: GNOME Summit GUADEC General desktop ones aKademy DesktopCon (new this year) European general: LinuxTag FOSDEM Solutions Linux RMLL EuroOSCon (new this year) North American general: OSCon OLS Australian: linuxconf.au (and its GNOME minicon) I've probably missed dozens of obvious ones. Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary Lyon, France [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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On Tue, 3 May 2005 17:29:27 -0400 Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I remembered we had it, but wasn't sure where it went. Did we get a wiki page up? My thinking is that we could have a general list of conferences that happen every year, and then a list (either same place or separate) listing what the date of the next known one is, whether or not we've contacted the organizer, what speakers we have there, etc., etc. Uhm, I once tried to compile a list of conferences so we could get overview where we'd be able to present, and maybe get a general list. But it was one of my first steps on the wiki so it went nowhere. The page is still there: http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam_2fEvents2004 Obviously I just covered german conferences, then. It would be cool if someone feels challenged to get this going: Delete the old page, and build a better one. Cheers, Claus -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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OK, I've tried something radically different, see what you all think: http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam/AnnualEvents Have to run to class, bye- Luis On 5/3/05, Claus Schwarm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 3 May 2005 17:29:27 -0400 Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I remembered we had it, but wasn't sure where it went. Did we get a wiki page up? My thinking is that we could have a general list of conferences that happen every year, and then a list (either same place or separate) listing what the date of the next known one is, whether or not we've contacted the organizer, what speakers we have there, etc., etc. Uhm, I once tried to compile a list of conferences so we could get overview where we'd be able to present, and maybe get a general list. But it was one of my first steps on the wiki so it went nowhere. The page is still there: http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam_2fEvents2004 Obviously I just covered german conferences, then. It would be cool if someone feels challenged to get this going: Delete the old page, and build a better one. Cheers, Claus -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs
On 5/3/05, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I've tried something radically different, see what you all think: http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam/AnnualEvents Have to run to class, bye- Make sure to have a poke at the pages linked to in the table. Luis On 5/3/05, Claus Schwarm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 3 May 2005 17:29:27 -0400 Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I remembered we had it, but wasn't sure where it went. Did we get a wiki page up? My thinking is that we could have a general list of conferences that happen every year, and then a list (either same place or separate) listing what the date of the next known one is, whether or not we've contacted the organizer, what speakers we have there, etc., etc. Uhm, I once tried to compile a list of conferences so we could get overview where we'd be able to present, and maybe get a general list. But it was one of my first steps on the wiki so it went nowhere. The page is still there: http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam_2fEvents2004 Obviously I just covered german conferences, then. It would be cool if someone feels challenged to get this going: Delete the old page, and build a better one. Cheers, Claus -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Oh man, thats just capital. Thanks! sri On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:41:24AM -1200, Glynn Foster wrote: Heya, There was some discussion of this last year :) Yeah, I remembered we had it, but wasn't sure where it went. Did we get a wiki page up? My thinking is that we could have a general list of conferences that happen every year, and then a list (either same place or separate) listing what the date of the next known one is, whether or not we've contacted the organizer, what speakers we have there, etc., etc. Okay, found a mail that might help that was in my board-list archives. Here's a cut and paste of the mail from Malcolm - Glynn === This involves a number of steps and I have made a start on a couple of these: (1) Knowing which conferences are coming up in each area of the world and when their paper submission dates are. - attached to this mail is the start of such a list (ordered by conference date. I need to make a similar list ordered by submission date). Naturally, as you can see, a number of submission dates have already passed by. In such cases, I have listed if there are any GNOME related talks being given. - I have concentrated on desktop-, consumer- and developer-related conferences. There are other conferences at which GNOME talks have been given (e.g. Daniel Veillard's presentation at XML Europe last year) but which are more of a niche market and which require particular speakers to give effective talks. - This list is far from complete. Can people send me any other conferences they know about (including submission deadlines and/or a website so I can scrounge out the info and monitor things). In particular, I have nothing for any South American countries and nothing for Spain, although both areas had conferences last year, if I recall correctly. I suspect there are a couple of British (particularly London-based) conferences that I have missed. I am also not going to be surprised if I have missed a number of significant European and North American summer conferences. - In 2004, we need to also be looking at 2005 conferences. Submission deadlines are months in advance of the conference, so by around mid-2004 we (the entire GNOME community) are going to have to have got our act together for conferences in the first couple of months of 2005. (2) Contacting GNOME volunteers and user groups in the appropriate areas to see if they can help out with demonstration stands and giving talks, etc. (3) Preparing a kit to help kickstart such demonstrations. - There have been posts to various mailing lists over the past few years about what people have learnt when helping out at a GNOME stand at conferences. I am trying to track down all of those. - We need to have something like a HOWTO available for people who want to do this kind of stuff. Possible also a HOWTO for somebody wanting to give a talk about GNOME to the general population. Sometimes it is just a matter of giving people ideas of what they can talk about and convincing them that it is not such a big job, since the people they are talking to may know very little about GNOME. (4) Complete this list. Currently it only contains three significant points. There are probably more. See attached - 2004 == January: 12 - 17: linux.conf.au - http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ (or http://linux.conf.au/) - Adelaide, Australia - much GNOME (and peripherally related) involvement: James Henstridge, Malcolm Tredinnick, Jeff Waugh, Havoc Pennington, Keith Packard, Glynn Foster spread between the main conference and a couple of the preceding mini-conferences. 20 - 23: LinuxWorld Conference Expo - New York, USA February: 3 - 5: Linux Solutions - Paris, France - http://www.solutionslinux.fr/en/index.php - costs for exhibition space. 9 - 12: O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference - San Diego, USA - http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etech/ - too late for this year. Keep in mind for 2005 conference. 11 - 13: Linux Asia - New Delhi, India - http://www.linuxasia2004.com/ - speaker registration closes Jan 22, 2004 (?? - maybe). 21 - 22: FOSDEM - Brussels, Belgium - http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/ - Bill Haneman speaking about
Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs
whoohoo. so who is volunteering to get that into the wiki? :) Luis On 5/3/05, Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh man, thats just capital. Thanks! sri On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:41:24AM -1200, Glynn Foster wrote: Heya, There was some discussion of this last year :) Yeah, I remembered we had it, but wasn't sure where it went. Did we get a wiki page up? My thinking is that we could have a general list of conferences that happen every year, and then a list (either same place or separate) listing what the date of the next known one is, whether or not we've contacted the organizer, what speakers we have there, etc., etc. Okay, found a mail that might help that was in my board-list archives. Here's a cut and paste of the mail from Malcolm - Glynn === This involves a number of steps and I have made a start on a couple of these: (1) Knowing which conferences are coming up in each area of the world and when their paper submission dates are. - attached to this mail is the start of such a list (ordered by conference date. I need to make a similar list ordered by submission date). Naturally, as you can see, a number of submission dates have already passed by. In such cases, I have listed if there are any GNOME related talks being given. - I have concentrated on desktop-, consumer- and developer-related conferences. There are other conferences at which GNOME talks have been given (e.g. Daniel Veillard's presentation at XML Europe last year) but which are more of a niche market and which require particular speakers to give effective talks. - This list is far from complete. Can people send me any other conferences they know about (including submission deadlines and/or a website so I can scrounge out the info and monitor things). In particular, I have nothing for any South American countries and nothing for Spain, although both areas had conferences last year, if I recall correctly. I suspect there are a couple of British (particularly London-based) conferences that I have missed. I am also not going to be surprised if I have missed a number of significant European and North American summer conferences. - In 2004, we need to also be looking at 2005 conferences. Submission deadlines are months in advance of the conference, so by around mid-2004 we (the entire GNOME community) are going to have to have got our act together for conferences in the first couple of months of 2005. (2) Contacting GNOME volunteers and user groups in the appropriate areas to see if they can help out with demonstration stands and giving talks, etc. (3) Preparing a kit to help kickstart such demonstrations. - There have been posts to various mailing lists over the past few years about what people have learnt when helping out at a GNOME stand at conferences. I am trying to track down all of those. - We need to have something like a HOWTO available for people who want to do this kind of stuff. Possible also a HOWTO for somebody wanting to give a talk about GNOME to the general population. Sometimes it is just a matter of giving people ideas of what they can talk about and convincing them that it is not such a big job, since the people they are talking to may know very little about GNOME. (4) Complete this list. Currently it only contains three significant points. There are probably more. See attached - 2004 == January: 12 - 17: linux.conf.au - http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ (or http://linux.conf.au/) - Adelaide, Australia - much GNOME (and peripherally related) involvement: James Henstridge, Malcolm Tredinnick, Jeff Waugh, Havoc Pennington, Keith Packard, Glynn Foster spread between the main conference and a couple of the preceding mini-conferences. 20 - 23: LinuxWorld Conference Expo - New York, USA February: 3 - 5: Linux Solutions - Paris, France - http://www.solutionslinux.fr/en/index.php - costs for exhibition space. 9 - 12: O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference - San Diego, USA - http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etech/ - too late for this year. Keep in mind for 2005 conference. 11 - 13: Linux Asia - New Delhi, India - http://www.linuxasia2004.com/ - speaker registration closes Jan 22,
Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs
Apparently, OSCON is having some presence. Although we have no booth or anything. I'd like to organize something at OSCON though for GNOME. I know Edd and others will be around so it will be nice to do something. I can do some distribution there. I'll have to check to see if work will send me. So far I've never gotten a 'no'. If you could send me some CD's I'd like to approach govt types so that they can use it and test it out. sri On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 09:28:56AM -0400, Luis Villa wrote: Hey, Sri, Tim, others- Are there conferences we're planning on having a presence at in the near future? Should we be planning to print out a batch of liveCDs to distribute/sell at them? Luis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
