by Pockey Lam
We are very happy to announce that Novell has joined the ranks of organization supporting GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 edition and has taken the Bronze level sponsorship. In fact two of our committee members, Akhil and Bharath from Novell, were the original submitters for the call for host back in December 2010 and have been helping us a lot in organizing the hackfest and conference. Thank you very much Novell!
We are very happy to announce that Lemote is supporting GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 edition again as a bronze level sponsor this year. Lemote is a manufacturer of MIPs based computers and a provider of loongson processors (Chinese MIPs based processors) as well as related integrated solutions. It is important to add that their system are fully “free software compatible”. All system source files (BIOS, kernel, drivers etc.) are free software, no close firmware are needed. GNOME as a GNU project cares about users freedom and encourages people to use free software, which is why we are very pleased to partner with a company sharing our beliefs. Thank you very much Lemote!
We are very happy to announce that Mozilla will be supporting GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 edition and has taken the silver level sponsorship this year. Mozilla already supported us in 2008 at the same level, so it’s a real pleasure to have them back. We’re now in discussion to help setting up a Firefox workshop and a Mozilla booth based on available skills and resources. If you’re very familiar with Firefox development, or a passionate user and happen to be in Bangalore during the event please get in touch with us on the GNOME.Asia mailing list. Thank you very much Mozilla!
On the promotion side of things, Linux Pilot has joined the ranks of our media partners and will be helping us to promote our Hackfest and Summit in their magazine and online platform. Thank you to Linux Pilot for their support!
We have also made some nice badges to promote the conference and encourage visitors to pre-register, and will soon make some “I’ll be attending” badges available. Please help us to advertise for the event by placing any of the badges on your blog or website. Thank you!
We are very happy to announce that Oracle / Sun is supporting GNOME.Asia Summit one more time and has taken the gold level sponsorship this year. In fact since GNOME.Asia inception in 2008, Sun and then Oracle have been following us everywhere we went in Asia providing funding and speakers! It also means we will be able to meet again with our great GNOME friends from Oracle and be able to host a face to face GNOME.Asia committee meeting as two members of our team are from Oracle! Thank you very much Oracle!
As a side note, we just started to accept lightning talks. If you are interested to give one, please register in the page, it would be nice if you can help us to spread the word as well!
It is a great pleasure to announce that public registration for the GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 is officially opened. It will be our forth summit and happen on the weekend of April 2 and 3, 2011 in Bangalore (India), right after the GNOME 3.0 Bangalore Hackfest. We will be able to jump on the opportunity of having a lot of the GNOME developers already on site to aim for the greatest GNOME.Asia Summit of all time.
Please help to spread the word and invite your friends to join the event!