GNOME.Asia 2018 bidding process
From 27 March 2018:
- The first meeting for GNOME.Asia 2018 happened today. There's a call for hosts. Max is making plans to hold it in Taiwan in August.
- They're planning to ask us for $2k, plus travel, but they need to move quickly. This amount is very low.
- Neil - the board shouldn't approve anythnig until we get the accounts from last year. He's been asking for these for months. Nuritzi - but each event does have different local organizers.
- Allan - they should follow the standard conference policy in order to receive funding (https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/Conferences).
- Question around the GNOME.Asia call for bids - should the GNOME.Asia coordinators be able to run the bidding process themselves?
- Alexandre would like them to make an effort to participate in the wider GNOME community, and to include the GNOME community in the bidding process. For example, advertising the bidding process on the standard mailing lists, encouraging the community to comment on bids.
- Allan - doesn't have a problem with events holding their own bidding processes. Board approval isn't final (so doesn't nullify the result of a bidding process) - a local team can improve their proposal and present it again.
- Neil - doesn't mind who runs the bidding process, but it should be conducted in the open.
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@nuritzi to inform the local team of the board's requirements, and to ask that the bidding process be more open in the future.