Re: CONTACTS GUADEC

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

And thanks very much!

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:

If you want to cc sponsonring guadec org, we can help respond to people.

Stormy

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Nelson Marques <07721 ipam pt> wrote:

 Stormy,

 I've contacted Vodafone Portugal and waiting for them to reply me with
the contact from someone in Vodafone NL that can evaluate this proposal
for sponsorship on Guadec.

 I'm also waiting on a callback from Logitech (Switzerland) to send
proposal for Guadec.

 It's being a bit harder on the other dutch mobile operators, as I only
have dealt with them through Product Managers and they are not the right
people for this kind of contact, but I'm working on it.

 As said before, I'm ignoring all the MVNO's as I don't believe they
will be interested, most of the them if not all explore small market
niches that are of no interest to us.

 I'm going to check other Benelux companies that suit this.

 How do you want to handle the contacts? Wanna take over on those
interested? I really would love to pass those interest to someone who is
directly involved on this event.

 nelson


On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 09:44 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote:
> Nelson,
>
> Here's the brochure. If you could help us expand to mobile companies,
> that'd be awesome.
>
> 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
>
>