Minutes for Meeting of June 6th, 2011
Next Meeting
- June 20th, 2011 - 14:00 UTC
Attending
- Brian Cameron
- Emily Chen
- Dave Neary
- Christophe Fergeau
- Bob Murphy
Agenda
- Committee member self-introduction
- Discuss about committee members' role and responsibility
- Discuss GUADEC 2012 call-for-bid
Meeting Minutes
- Committee member self-introduction
- Emily Chen, from Beijing China, attend GUADEC 2007, 2008, and 2010. Start GNOME.Asia, mainly work on the GNOME Users Group and GNOME in Asia. Now help to organize a GUADEC committee team.
- Christophe Fergeau, from Paris, France, working at Red Hat, I helped with paper selection for last year GUADEC, and I've been organizing the fosdem gnome devroom for years
- Bob Murphy. I've been developing using GTK+, Clutter, etc. since 2006. I attended GUADEC 2007, presented (by proxy) in 2008, and also presented at the 2008 Ottawa Linux Symposium. I haven't helped organize a conference quite like this, but used to help organize the North Texas Irish Festival. BTW, I live near San Francisco, and am starting a Meetup group for GNOME developers if anyone's interested.
- Brian Cameron. I serve on the GNOME board of directors for the past 4 years and am currently the secretary. Worked for Oracle on the desktop about 10 years, mostly on GNOME. I am a GDM co-maintainer.
- Dave Neary, got involved in GNOME through GUADEC in 2004 or 2005; has been involved to some extent in GUADEC every year since - and was the conference chair in Barcelona; Former board member (elected 3 times, served one term as treasurer, one as chairman)
- Discuss about committee members' role and responsibility
- - Committee assist every year team with previous years experience, there are some activities that need to happen every year. The committee would be able to help with these work.
- - GUADEC committee is consider as a virtual team, help local organizors to do work, mainly through IRC and email.
- Discuss GUADEC 2012 call-for-bid
- - Create live.gnome.org/GUADEC/2012, and to start contacting user group and party contacts in European hub cities.
- - We will discuss whether to postponed the deadline for GUADEC 2012 call-for-bid on the next meeting on June 20.
New Items
[All] - Every committee member please your name and role at http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/CommitteeMembers
- [Bob, Brian, Emily] - Create live.gnome.org/GUADEC/2012, and to start contacting user group and party contacts in European hub cities.
- [Emily]- Create a upcoming meeting agenda wiki page so everyone can add new agenda there
- [Emily, Brian] - Draft a standard letter to contact potencial organizors to telling them that we would like them to consider helping to host GUADEC near their region.