Awards Ceremony Info & 'runners up'

[LH (Leslie Hawthorn)]

Hello everyone,

Titus pointed out that there is no documentation anywhere about
mentors attending the awards ceremony. So here we go:

- one mentor per organization will be flown to Google Mountain View
- expenses for this one mentor will be covered in the same fashion as
for a student grand prize winner

More details, see: http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/rules.html
section #9:

Cheers,
LH

[LH (Leslie Hawthorn)]

And forgot to mention that we're targeting early May for this. We
have 32 schedules to coordinate, so it's going to be fun. I'll set up
a Google Group for planning later this week. We'd like to know who'll
you'll send, but we have time to figure that out.

Cheers,
LH

[Martin Aspeli]

I vote that Matthew Wilkes, who basically did all the hard work, attends
for Plone. He's in the UK, and has expressed an interest in going, so I
hope he can make it!

Martin

[Bertrand Delacretaz]

On Feb 13, 2008 4:33 AM, LH (Leslie Hawthorn) <lho...@gmail.com> wrote:

> ...- one mentor per organization will be flown to Google Mountain View

> - expenses for this one mentor will be covered in the same fashion as

> for a student grand prize winner...

Does that mean mentors can bring someone with them expenses paid, or
is the "himself and one parent" bit meant for young students only?

-Bertrand (not joking, just wanted to clarify that ;-)

[Bertrand Delacretaz]

On Feb 13, 2008 4:38 AM, LH (Leslie Hawthorn) <lho...@gmail.com> wrote:

> ...forgot to mention that we're targeting early May for this. We

> have 32 schedules to coordinate, so it's going to be fun. I'll set up

> a Google Group for planning later this week....

Note that May 1st is a holiday in many European countries AFAIK, so
very early May might make it easier for people to attend.

-Bertrand

[Leslie Hawthorn]

I'm sorry Bertrand, as much as we appreciate all your efforts we can't
pay for you or anyone from the ASF to bring along a parent or
guardian. :)

Seriously, though - look at the expenses covered for one student and
figure we'll cover the same expenses for one mentor.

Cheers,
LH

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[Leslie Hawthorn]

Good to know - thanks!

[Angela Byron]

As much as I'd love to party with all the GHOP folks in Moutainview, for Drupal, I want to send Adam Light instead. He stepped up very early on to help with GHOP and has been a powerhouse throughout, mentoring tasks and students, helping keep the back-end administrative bits organized, hounding others for task ideas and helping to refine them, and so on. He covered me over my busy travel schedule at first, and later came to really "own" the contest and be the main person keeping track of everything. I think he of all of our various GHOP helpers really deserves the grand prize. :)

-Angie

[Leslie Hawthorn]

Alrightey, so far I've got:

Matthew Wilkes - Plone
Adam Light - Drupal

Any other nominees?  I'll be creating the new mailing list tonight.

Cheers,
LH