Stormy, Got it. Awesome stuff. I'm going to give you a contact of a national hardware manufacturer which is supplying Laptops for students through the government (not the cursed Magalhães). Unfortunatly they use a national distribution called Caixa Mágica (Magic Box, http://www.caixamagica.pt) which is focused on KDE. This is sad, but it's the reality. Caixa Magica is built based on SuSE/openSuSE sources. I would like you to contact this person (the CEO of the company) and CC it to the contact I'm also providing. They sponsored me in 2001 for my even and they are often opened to new challenges. This company is distributing computer with linux pre-installed for over 5 years, which makes them a pioneer in the Portuguese Market. Also offer him a possibility participate if possible with a speaker about open source or GNU/Linux as an alternative on pre-installed PC's. And why don't use GNOME ;) Gonna send this in private email. Nelson. On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 09:43 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote:
Great.
I'll send the brochure to you offlist.
Stormy
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Nelson Marques <07721 ipam pt> wrote:
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 09:15 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote:
> Hi Nelson,
>
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Nelson Marques
<07721 ipam pt>
> wrote:
> About Guadec, have you contacted Vodafone? or any
other big
> Mobile
> operators? I would assume that pushing the right
keys, they
> would tag
> alongside with Guadec. Also try to have small local
business
> present,
> and push hardware manufacturers into it aswell.
Tryed BenQ ?
> it's a
> Benelux based company, should be interest from them.
> Having a company like BenQ with us could help.
>
> Are you willing to identify and approach some of these
companies about
> GUADEC sponsorship? We have a brochure, so the main work is
> identifying contacts, approaching them, giving a pitch and
then
> following up with them. (And following up with them. And
following up
> with them. ;)
>
> Stormy
>
Hi,
I can dig some information about possible interested
companies and try
to approach them. I do know that some are more friendly
because I've
contacted about 280 Operators (including MVNO's) in Europe in
the past.
Before approaching we need to know a couple of things:
# What benefits can they take from sponsoring (ex: how are we
going to
advertise them, expected visitors)
# What do we need from them (ex: money, merchandising, etc)
# I would advice also than when applies, we should ask for
participation as well, like providing speakers to conferences.
This get
touchy as some companies are related to users and opensource,
but in a
different way from us... for instance the emerging market for
netbooks
and tables is of interest to Vodafone as they provide carrier
data
services through GSM Networks. They are attacking this niche,
but the
issue is how we relate it with open source. So, this needs
some
thinking.
Taking a look into potential companies that can help us. I do
have a
background in the Netherlands, as I lived there for almost 2
years, I
can most likely get some contacts from companies like
Logitech.
Point me the material that we have already done. As you now
my english
is not native, and before I contact them, I'll send to the
list a
general message so that people can fix it correctly and I'll
take it
from there.
I'll place some effort on this one. It would help if we have
a program
already available for the event and a list of
activities/participation's.
I'll be in touch about this.
NM
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