[ANSOL-geral] [Fwd: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008]

[ralf.braga sapo.pt]

Também acho bem interessante !

abs,

Ralf Braga

Citando Bruno Santos <bsantos em gmail.com>:

> Eu acho que seria muito interessante!
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> Bruno
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> On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 23:58 +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
>> Quem mais acha que vale a pena?
>>
>> Rui
>>
>> email message attachment, "Mensagem reencaminhada - Call for
>> invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008"
>> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> > From: Anne Østergaard <anne em oestergaard.nu>
>> > Reply-To: foundation-list em gnome.org
>> > To: foundation-list em gnome.org
>> > Cc: foundation-announce em gnome.org
>> > Subject: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008
>> > Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:30:00 +0100
>> >
>> > Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008
>> >
>> > GUADEC is the yearly GNOME Users and Developers European Conference.
>> >
>> > Dear GNOME friends
>> >
>> > For those of you who would like to host the next GUADEC in 2008 you are
>> > hereby invited to write a formal invitation to the board of The
>> > GNOME Foundation.
>> >
>> > The invitation should be send to
>> > board em gnome.org and
>> > Anne Østergaard <aoe(at)gnome.org>
>> > at the latest on May 15th 2007.
>> >
>> > As the conference is getting bigger and hopefully better and more
>> > important every year there is no reason not to tell you that it takes a
>> > lot of persons actively involved and committed in the actual planning
>> > and a lot of time and spent carrying out the practical work.
>> >
>> > It is also rewarding and very much fun and you learn a lot in the
>> > process.
>> >
>> > I usually say that when you can take care of a baby and handle a big
>> > conference you are pretty much prepared for anything. These things are
>> > real and can not be handed virtually.
>> >
>> > Some practical advice:
>> >
>> > There are a couple of things that you must take into account when
>> > writing your invitation:
>> >
>> > You must be a group of at least ten persons behind the invitation to
>> > take on responsibility.
>> >
>> > These ten persons each need a lot of helpers.-  For this purpose you
>> > can involve everybody - they do not all have to be nerds- other skills
>> > can often be of great advantage to the team.
>> >
>> > The conference must take place in the same physical place/ building.
>> >
>> > You must be many persons very near and in the place/city where the
>> > conference is taking place.
>> >
>> > It is an advantage if there is a strong support from the community:  the
>> > region, the city, university, huge companies, important organizations
>> > and/ or among a very large group of local citizens.
>> >
>> > The conference will need facilities from Saturday to Thursday. It will
>> > be nice to have the facilities from Saturday to Saturday. (The weekend
>> > normally used for establishing things and getting rid of jet-lack.- Some
>> > activities which involve moving in the sun and fresh air could be
>> > helpful here.)
>> >
>> > The technical infrastructure is crucial to the conference. The hacker
>> > room and the conference rooms needs a lot of bandwidth. This is also the
>> > case for streaming.
>> >
>> > One large conference hall for 500 persons.
>> > Projectors, beamers and at least 3-4 large conference rooms and many
>> > smaller rooms are needed and possibly an exhibition area and/ or hall.
>> >
>> > A hacker room with pc' s available, and open most of the day and evening
>> > is very much appreciated.
>> >
>> > You will need a lot of sponsors and good press contacts.
>> >
>> > You must have solutions for housing: Hotels, youth hostels, the living
>> > for free program etc.
>> >
>> > Catering, the "Beer Party" and cultural activities for a flexible number
>> > of persons must be possible as well as affordable lunch meals for all.
>> >
>> > Assisting in conference planning calls  or meetings and taking notes for
>> > a long period of time, taking care of registration, accounting, the
>> > technique in each conference room and of invited speakers and keynotes-
>> > which involves some local transportation etc. and a hospitality scheme.
>> >
>> > Construction and updating of the website, call for papers, logo
>> > competition, printing conference material etc.
>> >
>> > I am sure I forgot something but if you are able to meet most of the
>> > things on this list you are already a real GNOME champion.
>> >
>> > GUADEC has been hold at universities half of the time but other venue
>> > solutions are quite possible.
>> >
>> > It will be an advantage if you start following the planning list for
>> > this years GUADEC 2007 in Birmingham.guadec-list em gnome.org
>> >
>> > The following two links lead you to "must read stuff" as well as to very
>> > useful information:
>> > http://live.gnome.org/GuadecPlanningHowTo?highlight=%28guadec%29%7C%
>> > 28howto%29
>> >
>> > Check list:
>> >
>> > http://live.gnome.org/GuadecPlanningHowTo/CheckList?highlight=%28guadec%
>> > 29%7C%28howto%29
>> >
>> >
>> > Countries which have close regional collaboration could help each other
>> > make a joint invitation to one venue.
>> >
>> > We would love to see GUADEC have both national and regional spin off
>> > effects for the use of GNOME and Free Software. Especially in places
>> > where we have not yet so seen so many footprints:)
>> >
>> > I know that you will need all the time you can get to prepare an
>> > invitation so I hope I have inspired you to get started.
>> >
>> > The GNOME Board hopes to hear from you May 15th or before.
>> >
>> > Good luck!
>> >
>> > GNOME greetings
>> >
>> > Anne
>> >
>> >
>> >
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