Re: [dot] Tuesday announcement of Desktop Summit sponsors



On Friday 15 July 2011 18:57:09 Carl Symons wrote:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Jos Poortvliet <jos opensuse org> wrote:
Hi all,

Attached the announcements for the Desktop Summit Sponsorship. As you
know, Intel, Collabora and SUSE will be the main (Platinum and Gold)
sponsors, hence we'd like to let you know that these announcements will
go out on the Desktop Summit press channels on Tuesday, 15:00 UTC.

We'd appreciate it if you would either issue your own or echo these
announcements.

Any input or suggestions are of course welcome.

Greetings,
Jos Poortvliet
& The Desktop Summit Team

MeeGo is an open source project, hosted by the Linux Foundation and
led by a steering group; it is not an Intel project. Thus, the quote
from the MeeGo Community Manager speaking for Intel is confusing and
should be clarified.

He's an intel dude, and his job title is "MeeGo Community Manager". Like I'm 
SUSE employee and my job title is "openSUSE Community Manager". Nokia also has  
an "MeeGo Community Manager", like openSLX also has an "openSUSE Community 
Manager". It's just a job title which only implies what he does at Intel, 
nothing else. I don't see the problem, to be honest. 

Moreover - if it WAS a problem  you'd expect Intel's MeeGo community manager 
to be especially sensitive to it. As well as Intel's marketing team, which has 
approved this quote.

I'd rather not make a fuss about it.


Carl

<p>We are pleased to announce that the Desktop Summit 2011 in Berlin will
be supported by Intel as Platinum sponsor. The event also welcomes
Collabora and SUSE as Gold partners. The organization is delighted with
the community spirit of these generous corporate partners. Mirko Boehm,
Lead organizer of the Desktop Summit, said: <em>"Their support is
essential for the Desktop Summit's efforts to bring together Free
Software developers from all around the world to work in a collaborative
spirit on the next generation desktop technology."</em></p>

<p>Dawn Foster, MeeGo Community Manager stated: <em>"Intel is happy to
sponsor the Desktop Summit as a way to support the many projects that we
use and contribute to on a regular basis. It's important to us to work
closely with open source projects - and this is one way to do
that."</em></p>

<p>Christian Schaller, Marketing Manager at Collabora told us: <em>"At
Collabora we are excited to support the Desktop Summit as we feel it is
one of the core events in terms of moving the open source ecosystem
forward. A lot of open source innovation happens on the desktop first
before being widely deployed on all kinds of systems and devices. As the
leader in the fields of multimedia and real time communications
Collabora are very much a part of that effort. We look forward to
meeting up with and engaging with the everyone at the Desktop
Summit."</em></p>

<p><em>"SUSE is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the Desktop Summit
2011,"</em> said Michael Miller, vice president of Global Alliances and
Marketing at SUSE.<em> ?Cross project collaboration is a core value at
SUSE and we are committed to wide interoperability and open
communication. Our support of openSUSE at the Desktop Summit
demonstrates our continued commitment to a strong Free and Open Source
ecosystem."</em></p>

<p>Aside from the Platinum and Gold sponsors, we are happy to welcome the
following Silver sponsors for this event: <ul>
<li>Canonical</li>
<li>Google</li>
<li>Igalia</li>
<li>The Linux Foundation</li>
<li>Qt</li>
<li>Red Hat</li>
</ul>
</p>

<p>The following are our Bronze level sponsors:
<ul>
<li>Lanedo</li>
<li>Mozilla</li>
<li>openshine</li>
</ul>
</p>

<p>Their support is greatly appreciated</p>

<p>Our media partners for the Desktop Summit will be golem.de and Linux
Magazine</p>

<p>The organizing team would like to thank our sponsors on behalf of the
GNOME and KDE communities! We are still looking for more sponsors,
please contact us if you are interested (details below).</p>

<h2>About the Desktop Summit</h2>

<p>GUADEC (GNOME Users And Developers European Conference) and Akademy
(KDE annual world summit) are the world's largest gatherings of people
involved in Free Desktop and mobile user interfaces. Over a thousand
participants are expected at the Desktop Summit this year, covering both
the GNOME and KDE projects as well as related technologies. Organizers
welcome developers, artists, translators, community organizers, users
and representatives from government, education, businesses. Anyone who
shares an interest in a Free Desktop is encouraged to participate.</p>

<p>GNOME and KDE are Free Software communities that drive the user
interfaces of many Linux-powered devices--smartphones, laptops,
desktops, personal media centers. 2011 is the second summit organized
collaboratively by the two communities.</p>

<h2>Contact</h2>
<p>Contact information of the Desktop Summit team can be found on <a
href="https://www.desktopsummit.org/contact";>www.desktopsummit.org/conta
ct</a>. For press inquiries please contact Jos Poortvliet, <a
href="jospoortvliet gmail com">jospoortvliet gmail com</a>, phone
+31622377545.

<p>If you would like to discuss sponsorship, please contact us: <a
href="mailto:ds-sponsoring desktopsummit org">ds-sponsoring desktopsummi
t.org</a></p> Intel, Collabora and SUSE to be main sponsors of the
Desktop Summit

We are pleased to announce that the Desktop Summit 2011 in Berlin will be
supported by Intel as Platinum sponsor. The event also welcomes
Collabora and SUSE as Gold partners. The organization is delighted with
the community spirit of these generous corporate partners. Mirko Boehm,
Lead organizer of the Desktop Summit, said: "Their support is essential
for the Desktop Summit's efforts to bring together Free Software
developers from all around the world to work in a collaborative spirit
on the next generation desktop technology."

Dawn Foster, MeeGo Community Manager stated: "Intel is happy to sponsor
the Desktop Summit as a way to support the many projects that we use and
contribute to on a regular basis. It's important to us to work closely
with open source projects - and this is one way to do that."

Christian Schaller, Marketing Manager at Collabora told us: "At Collabora
we are excited to support the Desktop Summit as we feel it is one of the
core events in terms of moving the open source ecosystem forward. A lot
of open source innovation happens on the desktop first before being
widely deployed on all kinds of systems and devices. As the leader in
the fields of multimedia and real time communications Collabora are very
much a part of that effort. We look forward to meeting up with and
engaging with the everyone at the Desktop Summit."

"SUSE is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the Desktop Summit 2011," said
Michael Miller, vice president of Global Alliances and Marketing at
SUSE. ?Cross project collaboration is a core value at SUSE and we are
committed to wide interoperability and open communication. Our support
of openSUSE at the Desktop Summit demonstrates our continued commitment
to a strong Free and Open Source ecosystem."

Aside from the Platinum and Gold sponsors, we are happy to welcome the
following Silver sponsors for this event: Canonical
Google
Igalia
The Linux Foundation
Qt
Red Hat

The following are our Bronze level sponsors:
Lanedo
Mozilla
openshine

Their support is greatly appreciated!

Our media partners for the Desktop Summit will be golem.de and Linux
Magazin.

The organizing team would like to thank our sponsors on behalf of the
GNOME and KDE communities! We are still looking for more sponsors,
please contact us if you are interested (details below).

About the Desktop Summit

GUADEC (GNOME Users And Developers European Conference) and Akademy (KDE
annual world summit) are the world's largest gatherings of people
involved in Free Desktop and mobile user interfaces. Over a thousand
participants are expected at the Desktop Summit this year, covering both
the GNOME and KDE projects as well as related technologies. Organizers
welcome developers, artists, translators, community organizers, users
and representatives from government, education, businesses. Anyone who
shares an interest in a Free Desktop is encouraged to participate.

GNOME and KDE are Free Software communities that drive the user
interfaces of many Linux-powered devices--smartphones, laptops,
desktops, personal media centers. 2011 is the second summit organized
collaboratively by the two communities.

Contact

Contact information of the Desktop Summit team can be found on
www.desktopsummit.org/contact. For press inquiries please contact Jos
Poortvliet, jospoortvliet gmail com, phone +31622377545.

If you would like to discuss sponsorship, please contact us:
ds-sponsoring desktopsummit org

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