I like the idea of planning some workshops to raise funds, although I may be one of the few on that train of thought? Or so the relevant mailing list thread would have me believe.
Check out below - I've been in talks with someone from element14 about event sponsorships, etc, any ideas? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Troy, Sorry for not replying sooner, I've sitting too many briefings and brainstorming for the last couple of days. Thanks for letting me know about Skullspace, glad you got some connections there. We have received many queries about affiliation schemes and discounted purchase schemes and we have added it to our report. I hope this would be something happening soon. My colleagues in charge of US campaign have received several responses from hackerspaces and some groups apparently consist of big numbers with more plannings in mind. As our campaign budget is mainly based on online coverage, that is, the more sites/blogs the bigger budget we can offer. If a big site could organise a contest that attract many outside entries (e.g. members own blog posts under the contest theme), then we may provide more free products pending on the total numbers. Would skullspace be interested in such an event? I'm also planning to do some PCB design contests in the wake of the new RPi compute module<http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-compute-module-new-product/>(launching next month). I'd like to run some contests across Canada if I could find some good partners. What do you think? Also on a side note, Farnell is also keen to receive interests of larger event fundraising from bigger groups, Farnell actually sponsored hackillinois <http://www.hackillinois.org/> last month! Another couple of update on our side, 1. We are preparing to launch a conductive ink/pen drawing contest shortly, I intend to invite some small groups or individuals to register their interests first, then I'll send out a tool-kit pack (say some of this product<http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?SKU=1663187&MER=i-bn-mer-0613-hp-m1-67258-1663187> ). There was a similar idea on BBC Click<http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01wm1tw>last month, ( or this youtube video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEW50zZnNO0> if you cant access bbc iplayer). It'd be great if we could find 5-10 candidates from every country we are working on. The prizes will be finalised after we gather enough interests. I'll surely ask some educational groups I'm working with again and I think those tutors/kids would find it interesting too. 2. We are also trying to pick some good and new projects such as the latest RPi mobile phone<http://www.raspberrypi.org/piphone-home-made-raspberry-pi-smartphone/> (I tried to approached the Irish blogger/creator, no reply -_-! ), to turn the project into first-hand infographics. Do you have any other good projects to recommend? Thanks Hong Zhang Content Marketing Executive Forward3D.com - Locaria.com 19 Mandela Street, Level 2, Centro 3 London, UK, NW1 0DU Tel: +44 203 476 4181 Fax: +44 203 725 9229 On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Justin Lacko <[email protected]> wrote: > You don't know the half of it! ;) > > > > On 2 May 2014 00:45, Ron Bowes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> I'll try to come by more often, but the commute sucks! >> > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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