I've had a long talk with Jim over beer, old OSCON, also Alan Runyan of Enfold.Plone and I hung out for a few days in Canada, goofing off some, but I saw serious work happening (sheesh guy's fast in vi !).
But now Jim and I just pass each other in the halls, said "Hi" to Alan in Chicago. Not boasting my social skills obviously, but I am seconding the idea the Microsoft might be pleased for an invitation to sponsor, doesn't mean Euros can't stay militantly anti-patent or whatever. OSCON gets big MSFT support and we're as virulently GPLish as ever. Conoco-Phillips gave a good talk in Vilnius last time (they use Python to run Ekofisk among other things). What's the equivalent of Industrial Light and Magic in Europe? The reason a lot of companies sponsor is they're looking to hire. The demand for Pythonistas and Pythoneers in the US is quite high right now, judging from my last Pycon experience, plus a "boom times" mentality more generally in high tech. Kirby On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Lennart Regebro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any fixed sponsorship deals? I couldn't find anything on the > website? It makes it easier to plug sponsorship if companies know what > they are getting. :) > > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Jacob Hallén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I'd like to report on the status of sponsorships. >> >> We have inquiries from Google and one other company about regular sponsorship >> deals. We have 3 non-regular deals that I plan to negotiate to gift >> sponsorships or low cost money paid deals. They are all 3 old supporters of >> EuroPython and I think it is good policy to recognize their earlier >> commitments. >> >> I have sent out emails about sponsorship opportunities to all the sponsors of >> Pycon-fr, Pycon Italia and Pycon that I could dig up a contact place for. I >> also sent mails to the sponsors for 2005, since I had those on file. >> >> I will dig up a few addresses more - mostly Swedish companies that would be >> interested. This is very time consuming work, so I won't be able to find a >> whole lot of them. I would be happy if people provided me with email >> addresses to send offers to. I have a nice Python script that does bulk >> mailing for me, so getting the messages out is quite easy. >> >> If there are registers of sponsors or people approached for EuroPython 2006 >> and 2007, I would be grateful for those. >> >> Jacob >> _______________________________________________ >> EuroPython mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython >> > > > > -- > Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone consulting. > http://www.colliberty.com/ > +33 661 58 14 64 > _______________________________________________ > EuroPython mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython > _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
