[guadec-list] First Sponsors for GUADEC 2007

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Just announced at guadec.org...


First Sponsors for GUADEC 2007
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Each year, GUADEC is always supported by the GNOME Foundation, and 
organised by volunteers. However, this event would be inconceivable 
without the generous help and contributions from sponsors, media 
partners and co-organizers. Therefore, the GUADEC team is pleased to 
announce that Google and Igalia are the first confirmed sponsors for 
GUADEC 2007! We have several more sponsors in the pipeline, but 
congratulations to the Google and Igalia for their promptness. We are 
very grateful to have these companies involved in GUADEC this year, as 
they are both very focused on using, supporting and providing Free and 
Open Source software solutions.


Google (Silver sponsor)
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Google have decided to sponsor GUADEC at silver level for the second 
year running. This indicates their continuing commitment and support of 
Open and Free Software projects.


About Google

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it 
universally accessible and useful.

As a first step to fulfilling that mission, Google's founders Larry Page 
and Sergey Brin developed a new approach to online search that took root 
in a Stanford University dorm room and quickly spread to information 
seekers around the globe. Google is now widely recognized as the world's 
largest search engine -- an easy-to-use free service that usually 
returns relevant results in a fraction of a second.

Google provides support to the open source community through donations, 
hosting community meetups and through the Google Summer of Code program. 
To learn more about Google's open source efforts, visit code.google.com.


Igalia (Silver sponsor)
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It is also Igalia's second year sponsoring GUADEC, and they will be 
sponsoring at Silver level again. Many thanks to Igalia for their 
continued sponsorship of GUADEC, and also for the many other Free and 
Open Source projects and events they support.


About Igalia

Igalia is a company from the south-west of Europe (Galicia, Spain), 
specialized in the development of innovative free software technologies 
and solutions. Igalia has been increasing its involvement in the Gnome 
community since its creation five years ago, contributing with code and 
documentation to several components and applications, and sponsoring and 
organizing different Gnome events, from local hackfests to international 
conferences.

In May 2003, the first version of the Fisterra project was published by 
Igalia. Fisterra is a sophisticated framework for making the development 
of business management software easier with Gnome technologies. Since 
then, several companies have adopted solutions based on Fisterra. Igalia 
developers have a deep knowledge of the Gnome technologies and during 
the last years, the company has carried out projects for evolving, 
adapting or modifying different parts of Gnome, including subcontracts 
for relevant international companies.

http://www.igalia.com/