En/na Dave Neary ha escrit: > I'm not suggesting that any old volunteer could get us sponsorship - but > we have the contacts, and I'm more than happy to introduce people to > people (I'm sure Jeff is the same) if I have a fair idea that they're > not going to ruin a relationship ;) Fundraising and getting projects in the Internet & free software industries has been a big % of my work in the last decade. I can do this work and in fact I enjoy doing this (from time to time). Yesterday I meet Javi Vázquez for the first time face to face. He has a similar profile. We have about 25-30 organisations to contact in total. GUADEC is "easy" to sell in a way: you get quick YES or NO, THANKS. Orgs thinking "no thanks" have generaly good reasons and will be really difficult to change their minds. The main work I expect is to push the small interested orgs up to a Silver packacge and push the orgs with resoulsec to Silver and a saucoy Cornerstone. The initial objectives are 1 cornerstone, 3 golds, 5/7 silver. It's not easy but it's not impossible either. Maybe a big difference compared to previous GUADECs is that the local sponsorship may play an important role: GNOME is present in many free software projects and lots of money (compared to the average free software economy elsewhere) are being invested here, not only developing projects but also positioning companies in a growing market powered mainly by the public institutions. For instance, Novell Spain may be as interested or more in a good GUADEC prensece than Novell corp itself. Intel Iberia is investing a lot of resources in free software related marketing and they could decide autonomously a sponsorship apart from Intel corp. Etc. I'm writing these lines in a huge event hall with about 20 flashy stands where even Oracle and Vodafone have nice brochures, colorful lights and well dressed hostesses... All this to say I'm happy and confident and doing this work, sharing responsabilities with Javi and sharing contacts with Dave (& Jeff? will ask him, he's around) and Devin, who has some pretty good Spanish contacts. -- Quim Gil - http://desdeamericaconamor.org
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