Re: How to make money with GNOME technologies?

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi Fred,

Some ideas of business models worth exploring:

"How I got hired to work on GNOME" (from someone who started as a
volunteer & got hired)
"How I built a company around GNOME" (you should invite Matthew Allum)
"Building products using GNOME" (you might try Linpus, Samsung, Red Hat
or Novell)
"Creating value using GNOME technologies" (a company that is making
money or saving money by using GNOME - the film industry in Hollywood
might be a good idea, or maybe a big GNOME user like Google?)

In any case, I'd definitely invite Matthew, or perhaps Murray Cumming.

Cheers,
Dave.

Frederic Muller wrote:
> Hi guys!
> 
> Part of the GNOME.Asia Summit we're planning to offer a special
> 'training' session for local software houses to promote GNOME
> technologies and encourage them to sponsor the conference (the session
> is $500 and gives the company a logo on the website as tech sponsor).
> 
> The session topic is "How to make money with GNOME technologies?" and
> will be run by someone from the GNOME foundation. We don't have any
> speaker yet but we need to advertise the session first.
> 
> While we have already updated the call for sponsors document we would
> like to make a web page to advertise it and we need some case study
> summaries that would make our targets very attracted.
> 
> I've thought among you guys you must have some data or could potentially
> indicate who we could possibly ask eventually.
> 
> I'm thinking along the lines of:
> 
> "Learn how Nokia did so much with GTK and .... "
> "Discuss with Igalia and find out how doing this and that has been a
> great development area."
> "Discover XXX inc. using GNOME this way and charging for it"
> 
> Maybe 2/3 shots of devices/people and a call for action message on the
> side "Sign up NOW! Limited seats."
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help in the matter.
> 
> Fred
> 

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Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
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