GNOME 3.0 Bangalore Hackfest | GNOME.Asia Summit 2011

This is a page for GnomeAsia committee members to plan for the GNOME.Asia Summit 2011.

(If you wish to join or contribute to this group, please contact gnome-asia-list (at) gnome (dot) org)

Introduction

We will be holding the forth GNOME.Asia in 2011 before the GNOME 3.0 release. The whole summit will include a 5-days private Hackfest and a 2-days open-to-public conference.

Our objectives are to get together GNOME contributors to work on, promote and celebrate the GNOME 3.0 release as well as leverage on the GNOME 3.0 release to build a bigger GNOME community in Asia. We invited the GNOME release team, documentation team, marketing team and those contributors who will be involved with the actual mechanics of the GNOME 3.0 launch as well as those contributors living in Asia.

Date and time

The whole summit will include a 5-days hackfest and a 2 day conference.

Hackfest: See Hackfests/GNOME.Asia2011
Conference Date: April 2 -3 2011 (Saturday and Sunday) - 8:30am to 6:00pm local time
Conference Venue: Dayananda Sagar Educational Institutions, Shivage Malleshwara Hills, Kumaraswamy Layout, Bangalore 560 078, Karnataka (India)

Objective

To work on, promote and celebrate the launch of GNOME 3.0
To leverage on this big GNOME 3.0 event to widely promote GNOME in Asia in different segments

Targets

Private Hackfest: GNOME marketing, release teams and developers
Open-to-public Conference: GNOME contributors and anybody who is interested to celebrate the launch of GNOME 3.0, press

Selected Location

India

Other venue candidates

We will host the upcoming GNOME.Asia Summit 2012 and 2013 in the above countries / cities.

Funding

We are calling for sponsors at the moment, please go to this sponsor page or contact gnome-asia-committee-list(at)gnome(dot)org for more details
Travel expenses will be needed from The GNOME Foundation (unless enough funds are raised to cover all the travel subsidy of the GNOME contributors) - if you need travel subsidy, please go to Travel Subsidy page