26th October 2010 meeting minutes

Planned Agenda

1. Update on last week action items
2. Update on statistic of pre-event survey
3. Update from each potential country hosts i.e. India, Indonesia and Hong Kong
4. Discuss about picking a venue and date for the GNOME.Asia Summit 2011
5. Discuss about call for sponsors
6. User experience feedbacks on GNOME Desktop
7. Update on the proposal of gnome.asia website

Meeting minutes

Attending:

• Pockey
• Emily
• Abharath
• Fred
• Allan
• Max
• Yippi

Regrets:

• Will
• Utian
• Akhil

Meeting notes:

1. Update on last week action items
   • Nothing much. Need an update from Will.
2. Update on statistic of pre-event survey
   • Pockey: Update on the survey statistic
     • Total response : 13
     • Half of them didn't complete the whole survey (answered 2/3 of the questions)
     • only 3 of them involved in GNOME 3.0
     • Responses very varied. Cannot conclude anything based on it.
     • Conducting the hackfest during the release is more favored.
   • Resolution: Let us target the other mailing-lists to increase participation.
3. Update from each potential country hosts i.e. India, Indonesia and Hong Kong
   • No updates collected. Let us wait for the results of the survey and also finalizing the dates first.
4. Discuss about picking a venue and date for the GNOME.Asia Summit 2011
   • Deadlines fixed. Nov 15th - Date to be decided. Nov end - Venue finalized.
5. Discuss about call for sponsors.
   • Start to approach companies end of Nov. Start this as soon as we have a date and venue.
   • Meanwhile keep collecting the list of companies to approach.
6. User experience feedbacks on GNOME Desktop
   • Update from Emily:
   • Ubuntu community is willing to join me to do the survey
   • I asked one member junyi from BGUG to work with Ubuntu China to collect all the feedback from gnome-cn and write a summary in English
   • Currently, I found most of the feedback are about: Applications needed, and community involvement and Localization, I need to encourage more feedback about User experience
7. Update on the proposal of gnome.asia website
   • Moved to next meeting.

New AI:

1. Pockey: To widen the survey to include foundation-list
2. Abharath, Emily, Fred, Pockey: To approach companies like Red Hat, Novell, Oracle, Canonical, etc. to invite potential participants to join the survey
3. All: To finalize the date by Nov 15 and venue by end of Nov.
4. All: To work on a list of potential sponsors
5. Pockey: To create a wiki page (read / write by committee members) and everybody to complete this potential sponsor list

6. Fred (poor things who got tricked): To be in charge of writing the call for sponsor document that should be drafted once the date and venue confirmed

   • Past documents

7. Wers: To update the survey questions for User Experience