Hi, For 2006, we had:
HP: $10,000 FSF: $3,000 Xara: $3,000 O'Reilly: $2,000 GNOME: Didn't take a 5% charge we'd agreed on donations - equalled a $1000 sponsorship Flock: $1,000 (thanks to Manish Singh, who was working there at the time) Eyrolles: €1,000 MacGIMP: $500 Don't know why MacGimp didn't get a logo on the site... Cheers, Dave. Louis Desjardins wrote: > 2009/1/29 Dave Neary <[email protected]> > >> Hi, >> >> Nathan Willis wrote: >>> I culled together a brief list of past sponsors based solely on the wiki >>> pages available from 2007 and 2006. Were there any others? I know the >> 07 >>> list was unofficial and there wasn't one up for 08. >> I assume you mean prospects, rather than sponsors? I think most of these >> have never sponsored... >> >> >>> - ATI >>> - Canon >>> - Epson >>> - Google >>> - HP >>> - IBM >>> - Intel >>> - Xerox >>> - Xara >>> - O'Reilly >>> - Eyrolles >>> - FSF >>> - Grafika >>> - Société des arts technologiques (SAT) >>> - CPE.fr >>> - Aldil.org >>> - Flock >>> - GNOME >>> - gnulinuxmag.com > > Hi, > > Just for the record, from this list, here are the ones who were sponsors and > actually donated money or substantial help in value. > > - Google (2008 $) > - HP (2006, 2007 $) > - Intel (2007 $) > - Xerox (2007 - lend equipment) > - Xara (2006 ???) > - O'Reilly (2006 - $ + books) > - Eyrolles (2006, 2007 $ + books) > - FSF (2006, 2007, 2008 $) > - Grafika (2007 - large free publicity) > > * * * > Sponsors not in the above list : > - GIMP team (2007 $) > - Our community (2008 $) > - Quebec government (2007 $) > - GRICS (2007 $) > - Révolution Linux (2007 - services) > > * * * > - GNOME helped with admin in 2008 <http://gnulinuxmag.com/> for a low cost > and I hope they can be onboard again in 2009. > > > You might add on your prospect list film studios like Hammerhead, Rhythm >> & Hues, Dreamworks, Disney, ILM, and that New Zealand one whose name I >> can't remember (but they don't spend money on this type of thing, >> usually). Oh, and those Spanish guys who did the bird movie in Blender? >> Although they're probably looking for money, rather than spending it. >> >> General ideas: Companies interested in free software graphics might be >> hardware companies (cameras, scanners, tablets, printers), Linux >> distributions (Canonical have an Ubuntu distribution that focuses on >> multimedia creation), movie studios (who work with the distributions - >> in particular Red Hat - a lot already) and art studios. You might also >> manage to get help from magazines who use free software in their >> toolchain (many of the Linux mags do, I think). > > > Absolutely agree. > > >> Individuals might also be interested - especially those who donated last >> time. > > > This brings up again the idea of putting together a Pledgie Campaign. We > have had a tremendous success last year with our community and it was > actually THE gold sponsor of the event! > >> You might also manage to wangle a grant from an appropriate non-profit - >> the FSF is a previous sponsor, as you noted, and you might try the Linux >> Foundation - they may be able to pay for travel for some people through >> their travel fund - and if you tailor your argument right, some of the >> mobile companies might be interested, if you pitch it as a workshop for >> developers of the low-level library end of things (littleCMS, Cairo, >> Clutter). > > > Again, completely agree! Good ideas! > > What we need now is put together a short but convincing letter about what > LGM is about. We can reuse some stuff from previous years but at the same > time a new look and fresh things would be great too. > >> if you pitch it as a workshop for developers of the low-level library end > of things (littleCMS, Cairo, Clutter). > > kind of thing. > > Remember that LGM is THE annual meeting of the graphic OSS apps developers > and it is the Fourth Edition. For all the teams it's a unique moment for > international gathering and crucial meetings among and between teams. LGM is > hard work. In that view, sponsors are clearly helping the development of > those apps. If they trust these apps are good for them in any respect, then > they should consider throwing some money in. Every dollar/euro counts. > > I would also add that this year — in January 2009, now this is fresh news — > The Seybold Report, one of the most well-known analyst of the publisher's > world made a review of Scribus and I suspect they will be looking more and > more at the OSS world in the coming months and years. That could also help > convince some large manufacturers to step in. These guys all read TSR. > > Cheers! > > Louis > >> >> Cheers, >> Dave. >> >> -- >> Dave Neary >> [email protected] >> Tel: +33 9 51 13 46 45 >> Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13 >> > -- Dave Neary [email protected] Tel: +33 9 51 13 46 45 Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13 _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
