* Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030127 09:09]: > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > Here are some firms we could contact wrt sponsoring people to get to > > debconf3, especially to debcamp. After all, they benefit when Debian > > becomes better. Andreas, can you contact them? > I might step in here as well - I'm Andreas, too. ;-)) > > > Springer Verlag: they have a Debian book > > > > IBM, HP, Sun, Compaq > Do you have any certain E-Mail addresses here. It might take a while > to get the right person. I'm wondering whether we could ask Tom Schwaller > (IBM) directly - but I know no Address. Regarding HP we might ask Bdale.
finding the right people to talk to is allmost the whole challange and the most time consuming. i contacted bdale (no answer yet) and have the name and address of the responsibel person in europe at hp. other then that, i contacted SAP, IBM, SUN, HP, Dell, Lindows and trolltech. Lindows and trolltech will sponsor us, ibm asked for a two-page project description and reason to sponsor us (not sure if that is good), HP (see above), SAP, sun and Dell: no contact yet. ideas and initiatives are appreciated. furthermore i plan to contact intel, amd, via, sis, samsung, oracle, samsung, microsoft, the last one mostly for the sake of a good laugh (but, hey, i would take their money!). if someone wants to help, we should try to do that in a coordinated fashion. different people following each their own agenda might be the best way to ensure failiour. to be in the loop i will *even* subscribe to this mailinglist! > > LinuxLand > I hope they would be more responsive than to simple suport questions ... i dont expect much there. > > Lehmanns - http://www.lob.de/ those you can scratch right away i feel. no good experiences here. > > Gonicus - www.gonicus.de : Thin-Clients on the basis of Debian > > (GOto: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gototc) > > > > http://www.bee.de/ Hardware, they offer Debian > Thanks for this list. I'll check it out. More hints are welcome.
