Please note that Kamila *Giedrojc* is the official organiser of LGM 2008. I have cc'ed her with this message so there is no error on the person! Dave has another Kamila in his contact book.
Cheers! Louis Dave Neary a écrit : > Hi Daniel, > > Some good ideas, I'm including Kamila (local organiser) and Louis > (organiser last year) to keep them in the loop. > > > > Daniel James wrote: >> Hi Dave, >> >>>> Please mail me offlist if you would like some ideas/contacts to try. >>> I'm all ears! I would love to get some new sponsors on-board. >> OK, how about: >> >> Any company that sells Linux/UNIX graphics workstations, e.g. HP, IBM, >> Sun, to the film/CGI industries. You have to get the right department >> though. Also the AMD and Intel reps that deal with these departments - >> at AMD in the US, try Charlie Boswell. > > HP are a previous sponsor, and have just confirmed they won't be > sponsoring this year. Perhaps we could have success if we went to > another department (cameras, printers, scanners, or indeed > workstations), but in general everything free software related goes > through the Open Source department, which is where we have our contact. > > IBM: No go this year (again, through their open source programs), Sun > have a limited community budget this year, and they're spending most of > it on OpenSolaris, GNOME (JDS) and Java. > > If you have any contacts in the film industry, I'l happinly contact them. > > Intel are a sponsor this year. > > AMD: do you have an email address or phone number? > >> Epson Polska - http://www.epson.pl/ - the parent company has always >> provided good driver support. >> >> Nikon Polska - http://www.nikon.pl/home/pl_PL/homepage/broad/site.html - >> Nikon DSLR cameras work out of the box on 64 Studio, we also have great >> RAW tools and CinePaint for HDR files. > > Idem - if you have any idea who the best person to contact would be, > that would be helpful. > >> O'Reilly/Rocky Nook (Gimp 2 for Photographers) - I will contact Josette >> Garcia on behalf of LGM, if that's OK. > > I'll leave that up to Louis - O'Reilly were a (cash) sponsor for LGM 1, > as well as a media sponsor with some books & publicity. I imagine we've > already contacted them. > >> With these companies, there's a quid pro quo - you have to offer them >> some exhibition space to show off their products in return for sponsorship. >> >>>> You also need involvement from the local and national Polish/central >>>> European IT media, as soon as possible (due to monthly magazine print >>>> schedules) e.g. http://www.linux-magazine.pl/ which is owned by the >>>> German company Linux New Media AG. >>> This is more of an investment of time that I personally can make this >>> year, but there are good ideas in what you say. >> I'll contact Brian Osborn, who used to be the business development >> manager at Linux New Media. It's vital to get the press support if you >> want local people to take an interest and show up. > > Sure, I understand that. However, there's a big investment in time to > write articles, lobby people to commission articles, collect a list of > managzines, editor names, contact them all, etc. I've done it in the > past, but I don't have time to commit to it this year. Someone else > could of course do this. > > Cheers, > Dave. > -- Louis Desjardins Mardigrafe inc. Graphisme et impression écologique T 514 934 1353 F 514 934 3698 www.mardigrafe.com _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
