Oops, I forgot the URL footnotes: 1. http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Hackfest2010 2. http://live.gnome.org/Travel#How_to_apply_for_sponsorship
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 12:06 -0800, Eitan Isaacson wrote: > Hello friends. > > The Deadline > ============ > > If you are interested in attending the hackfest[1], and need travel > assistance, please make sure you apply for it[2] by January 12. After > that date the travel committee will reply to everyone who applied, and > people will be able to but tickets and book accommodations. This will > allow people to get reasonable prices before they start climbing. > > Conference Registration > ======================= > > There are three parallel events happening at CSUN: > * Our hackfest (admission is free :) > * Industry exhibition (free for booth volunteers, which is all of us) > * Conference (registration is $450, %50 student discounts) > > The GNOME foundation will not directly cover for conference > registration, BUT: With our GNOME booth, which was not cheap at all, we > get 4 complementary conference passes. I wasn't sure until today, how we > should decide who gets them. But with Germán and Stormy's input, I think > we came up with a perfect scheme. > > The rationale is this: Our booth will bring GNOME to the AT community, > our attendees with bring AT to the GNOME community. > > The four attendees will be a press corps of sorts that will be > responsible for a week long conference-related blogging/tweeting blitz > in the GNOME community. In addition, maybe one could author a GNOME > Journal article about the conference, or dare I say: a special > Accessiblity issue for GNOME Journal? An ideal attendee will already be > an active blogger, and aggregated on Planet GNOME. I know we don't have > a lot of a11y folks on Planet GNOME, this might be an opportunity to get > some folks who already blog about this stuff on to the planet. Also, > participants should be generating tweetage that we could post to the > planet at the end of every day as a digest. > > Anyone interested in this? Before I start naming names... > > Accommodations > ============== > > For individuals who are receiving travel assistance, we will hopefully > sponsor 5 nights for shared rooms at the CSUN venue, according to the > conference room block price. The actual booking of the room, and finding > a person to room with is every attendees responsibility. Please use the > participation chart at the bottom of the hackfest wiki page to > coordinate all this. > > Cheers, > Eitan. > _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
