Re: Some perspective on the relative importannce of the board.

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 17:07 -0400, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Leslie Proctor">
> 
> > I agree, since Tim's been the one who has been collect the advisory board
> > fees, finding new sponsors and board members, etc. The board has had
> > little to do with raising money to date.
> 
> In quite a few cases, however, that has relied on board members talking to
> their own companies in order to secure sponsorship or advisory board fees.
> Not sure 'raising money' is something *anyone* can claim to have done a
> great job with.

I must praise Dave's recent work on getting small companies involved.
Thanks to him, Fluendo, Imendio, and OpenedHand are on the Advisory
Board. And we don't want them just for their money. We want their
involvement.

Murray