If Sun pays for the booth and your air fare, I'll pay for my own and my time which normally costs around $1000 a day US ;-) INGOTs are equally applicable to Star Office and Open Office and I'll promote both equally as an "independent" educational consultant, and any development that INGOTs fund is less development for Sun to fund. So really I'm offering them a good commercial deal :-) -- Ian
--- Graham Lauder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Graham Lauder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:43:54 +1300 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Marketing] Banners for booths at conferences Eric Renaud wrote: > Daniel Carrera wrote: > >> Eric Renaud wrote: >> >> >> >>> Either way, the one we have is beat down and tired. So, I'm ccing >>> my boss, Marla Parker, to ask if we can allocate some budget towards >>> getting several banners. >> >> >> Of course, the ideal situation would be for OOo to be able to raise >> funds of its own and spend them on its own banners. Don't take me >> wrong, I'm very grateful to Sun. But I think that everyone would be >> happier if OOo was less depedent on Sun for everything. Banners are >> such a tiny thing that it's embarassing to realize that the community >> can't make their own. We should be able to get our own banners, and >> much more. We should be able to bring OOo t-shirts to our booths, >> print nicely-bound books, and provide business cards to volunteers. >> >> >> > I don't mean to be contentious, but if I can get Sun to fund this, why > would you look a gift > horse in the mouth? > The OO.o community relies on donations. A donation from Sun > is the same from any other source. Beware the fear of the corporate > sponsor:: It's the hobgoblin > of many an Open Source project . . . > +1 and good stuff Eric. Would Sun Marketing be interested in sponsoriing an OOo booth at the NEA conference. < shameless plug > And perhaps airfares for someone from the UK and one from New Zealand. It would be useful to have educators manning the booth. :) < /shameless plug > But seriously I would certainly be keen and but for a lack of funds I would be happy to pay my own way and Ian has put his hand up already. For mine promoting Star Office as the Commecial version of OOo which just happens to be free to Educational institutions is not that much of a step. Heck I do that anyway. The best and strongest OSS projects, namely OOo and Mozilla have come from commercial parents. A sign of maturity is when children stop denying their parentage. Cheers Yo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
