On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Adnan Hodzic <ad...@foolcontrol.org> wrote:

> Hey everybody,
>
> There were many great days for DebConf11, but we should definitely
> remember this one.
>
> As you may know I had a meeting with President and Minister of Science
> and Technology today. Meeting was a big one, I was there with lady
> that's in charge of NGO "DIVA", we were meeting with President and
> Minister of Science and Technology of Republika Srpska, along with the
> Mayor of Banja Luka along with other government officials, and there
> was some press as well.
>
> Many issues were discussed but the main point of this meeting was to
> see what are we going to get from the government in terms of
> sponsorship. First we were planning to get money  from Government,
> then we planned to get stuff in compensation, we were basically aiming
> for free Venue and Hotel Bosna.  To sum it up, this is what happened
> and what we got:
>
> President alone gave us 50.000€! From Government we got 100.000€ and
> from the City of Banja Luka we got a free Venue (Banski Dvori), we
> even got Student Dormitories as bonus and backup option for
> accomodation, however I'm planning that we stick with the original
> plans and go with hotels as planned. Oh yea, FYI what I just said
> wasn't a Disney movie :)
>
> I think that line itself sums how the meeting went, I've also told
> President what our plans are for future, and that we are working on,
> getting more sponsorship, he even offered his help in getting the
> local sponsorships. I've told him that we are planning to start our
> work on Penta and have the registrations open within the next month.
> And then we'll start acquiring information about all attendees and
> their preferences, and where they'll be getting from to Banja Luka and
> in what times. Mostly beneficial regarding organized transportation
> from airports to the Venue.
>
> We also discussed other matters such as visas, I explained how the
> situation was with some of the attendees. Solution to this problem
> will be that, we'll start a list people that will need visas, those
> people will be granted approval to enter Bosnia on the border, all
> that those attendees need to let us know is where/what country will
> they be entering Bosnia from in case of transit. I suggest we start
> working on making this list ASAP.
>
>  After the meeting we also went to the President of our Venue, and we
> told him our requests, we got what we asked for 14 days. There's much
> more to say on what happened, but I think I said the most crucial
> things, please attend next IRC meeting on 8th of March if you want to
> find out more.
>
> *Note* for BiH local team, for members that are new, don't just appear
> on the IRC meeting or mailing lists just like that, introduce yourself
> on our local list firsts before starting discussions or before jumping
> into fire.
>
> Here's even an image for all of you :)
>
> http://twitpic.com/43c759
> From left to right, NGO DIVA president, Minister of Science and
> Technology, President, me :)
>
> Comments?
>
> P.S: You owe me beer for this one :)
>
>
We owe you more than that!
Really, really great news! :)

Cheers,


>
> Adnan
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