I have been organising the GNOME PERU FEST since 2011, through these years I have been used also FEDORA because I am ambassador of Fedora in Peru. I have not asked before to Fedora for sponsorship for this event, because of the name of the event, but we all know that GNOME runs over FEDORA.
This is going to be the 5th edition of the event and I want to put you as sponsorship if you can help us with 300 DVDs, 300 stickers of Fedora and 150 cupcakes of Fedora. (we expect 300 attendances). I am asking for $400. Many ambassador are going to give a talk also to promote the use of Fedora as GNU/Linux project for final users and I am going to promote the use of Red Hat for servers in companies.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GNOMEPERUFEST2015
GNOME is our primary desktop environment, there are no problem if you ask resources to fedora, for an event where you (as fedora contributor) will attend and promote our community.
said this, I will leave some questions for the next meeting
Are you asking for, produce locally this swag? take into account that if there a swag available in another countries, they can send to you, but can be difficult due to time, or by customs issues. So, I recommend to you, to produce your swag in your country.
Please open a wiki page for the event, and add it to the Fedora events page.
It is recommendable, (but not mandatory) ,attend at the meeting for discuss your ticket. As you know is all the wednesdays at 10:30 pm UTC, at IRC, channel #fedora-meeting
The wiki page is in:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GNOMEPERUFEST2015
Replying to [comment:1 echevemaster]: Dear echevemaster, could you please tell me what the project decide about the sponsorship? Thanks, Julita
I love the event, I think that Fedora should help this event... '''BUT''' how we ensure that the resources that we allocate for this event (stickers, dvd and similar stuff) will be provided in a meaningful way. It will be a shame that stickers and DVD will be sitting on a table to anybody to pick up. There should be someone from Fedora to talk to people, to help people understand that gnome and Fedora are together but are not the same. I am sure that Julita have the best intentions in this regards, but I think is beyond one person to fulfill the event organization and have time to talk to people. She needs help.
Thank you for your comment Neville, I invited Fedora people to talk during the event and they accepted, you can check that in the wiki. You are so right, GNOME is not the same of Fedora. I am planing to give all the attendances the DVDs and stickers and we can do something to prove the materials are well spreading: During the Fedora "online talk", we could ask all the people to show the materials you would approve and then you will believe that all the materials are for attendances. I am organising the GNOME PERU FEST for 5 years in a row and GNOME trust in my capacity as an organiser, they sponsor all the events I propose every year. I only did once for Fedora 17 in Peru because in Peru we do not have PayPal in Peru and my Fedora requests must of the time take so long to finally received a negative answer or partial acceptance. I am not alone in Lima with this, I have the support of the company I work: IBM because they see my job also as an organiser, I worked with them organising a GNU/Linux event last year. Besides that, I am a teacher in the university and I always promote the use of Fedora and GNOME during my labs because I teach GNU/Linux. And of course, all the time I do GNOME events, I promote the use of Fedora because GNOME must run on something. I really need soon an answer to print all the materials for the event. I will not only print the DVDs case, or burn the iso in all the DVDs, I was also planning to put the Fedora Logo everywhere (notebooks, banners, etc). Could you please do not take this as a claim, I will continue promote the use of Fedora if will receive again a negative answer from Fedora. I teach GNU/Linux in university so I will continue using Fedora to run GNOME <3. Thanks and sorry for the long post.
yulitas, no there any problem in obtain fedora resources for the event. the problem is at the event needs a Fedora representative. You can't take the both hats without neglecting any. but there are others ambassador that can take the hat at the event. Please ask for help for it. I'm sure that ambassadors in Lima can help you at the event. Please attend to the next meeting for talk about it and go forward with this topic.
Thank you echevemaster, I have already talk with Jonathan Campos and he told me he is going to attend to the event the whole day. I was thinking in giving him a place to put all the Fedora stuffs outside the auditorium. I will stay online during the meeting next Wednesday. Thanks again!
Hello, I am sharing the sources we have for the event. As you can see, we considered FEDORA as our sponsor. I hope we can have an affirmative answer soon to print all the materials for the event. Thank you so much again. https://github.com/cfoch/gnomeperu/tree/master/events
Hello Fedora friends, I have to say thank you for the support for our GNOME event in Peru. As it was planned it was celebrated in Centro Cultural PetroPeru on March, 13th. Fedora logo was present in everysingle details we have in the event (notebooks, cupcakes, stickers, banners, screenshots during the event). You can see the post of the event in the GNOME planet from my blog https://lleksah.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/i-organize-therefore-i-am-gnome-peru-fest-2015/ Thank you so much, we still have stickers and DVDs of Fedora 21 for any other local event you want me to help. Best regards, Julita Inca Chiroque.
stickers receipt Stickers.jpg
Cupcakes and cake cake_cupcake.jpg
DVDs Fedora21 DVDfedora21.jpg
Hello, I have attached some receipts related to the event. Thank you so much again for the help, we are going to continue spreading the FEDORA & GNOME word in Lima, Peru and any other place we go to install GNU/Linux! Bests, Julita.
Hello again, I have latest version of numbers:
Stickers:250 PEN = 80,815 USD Cakes: 720 PEN = 232,746 USD DVDs: 329 PEN = 106,352 USD Transaction = 21,600 USD *
'''TOTAL = 441,513 USD'''
I have sent my paypal account to Neville by mail.
Stickers:250 PEN = 80,815 USD Cakes: 720 PEN = 232,746 USD DVDs: 329 PEN = 106,352 USD Transaction = 21,600 USD
TOTAL = 441,513 USD
Neville, you have sent $441.51 USD to Julita Inca Chiroque.
what are the status of this ticket ?
was this approved in a fedora meeting ? if not then we should close this ticket.