Minutes for Foundation IRC Meeting of April 6th, 2011

Meeting Log

Board Members: Andreas Nilsson, Bastien Nocera, Brian Cameron, Emily Chen, Paul Cutler, Og Maciel

* New GNOME 3 website is coming along and should be launched on time for the release

* GNOME Asia: Emily gave us an update on the event

Exciting and enthusiastic local community!
- Interested in building LUGs and hosting GNOME 3.0 launch parties
This summit happened on April 2, 3
- Training session for students on March 31 and April 1
  - About 260 students
    - All the students who finished the traning will have a certificate after the summit
- Business session on April 1
  - Some attendees from Sun India, Dayanada Sagar College dean and professors
    - Focus on the education, how to promote free software in university in India
  - Trust Solaris by Brian Cameron
  - EDF by Joselin
  - Other talks by Fred and Lanedo
Approximately 800 attendees on first day, half of that the second day due to Cricket World Cup game
Keynotes by Brian Cameron and Vincent Untz
- Brian was interviewed by The Hindu newspaper http://www.hindu.com/2011/04/04/stories/2011040451630700.htm
Questionnaires from event currently being reviewed and feedback will be asked from participants
Expect more updates and press releases soon!
Emily thanked all the local organizers and GNOME.Asia committee members for their hard work!
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